DCL: NSF INCLUDES - California STEM INCLUDES Conference and Network

NSF INCLUDES计划支持模型，网络，伙伴关系和研究，以确保扩大妇女，历史上代表性不足的种族和族裔群体成员，社会经济地位低下的人和残疾人参与STEM。加州大学欧文分校（UCI）与加州大学圣地亚哥分校和加州大学戴维斯分校合作，将召开一次关于科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）高等教育包容性的全州会议。 加州STEM包容性会议和网络将分享促进STEM包容性的最佳实践，并提供一个基础设施，以促进这些实践和跟踪结果。 会议的目的是形成一个大型区域网络的骨干，以支持美国国家科学基金会在全国范围内纳入工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）倡议。会议的五个目标是：--提高加州教育工作者对STEM参与人口差距的认识，并研究影响这种参与差距的因素;--让参与者讨论增加STEM包容性的有希望的做法--通过修改和复制方案，扩大现有成功的STEM包容性方案的影响，扩大规模，加强合作;- 建立一个机制，围绕加州各机构的STEM包容性进行持续的讨论、分享和合作;--创建中央存储库和通用标准，用于报告STEM包容性和实施计划对该州的影响。来自加州K-12、高等教育、公共、私人和非营利组织的广泛代表将参加为期两天半的激烈对话，讨论数据和研究、成功实施以及可持续的合作和共享网络等主题。 会议将于2017年春季举行。

The NSF INCLUDES program supports models, networks, partnerships and research to ensure the broadening participation in STEM of women, members of racial and ethnic groups that have been historically underrepresented, persons of low socio-economic status, and people with disabilities. The University of California-Irvine (UCI), in partnership with the University of California-San Diego and the University of California-Davis will convene a state-wide conference on inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) higher education. The California STEM INCLUDES Conference and Network will share best practices for promoting STEM inclusion and provide an infrastructure to further these practices and track the outcomes. The purpose of the conference is to form a backbone for a large regional network in support of the National Science Foundation's Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) initiative. The five goals of the conference are to:--increase California educator awareness of demographic gaps in STEM participation and the research on factors influencing such participation gaps;--engage participants in discussion of promising practices for increasing STEM inclusion--broaden the impact of existing successful programs for STEM inclusion, through program modification and replication, scale-up, and increased collaboration;--create a mechanism for sustained discussion, sharing and collaboration around STEM inclusion across California institutions;--create central repository and common standards for reporting on STEM inclusion and implementation program impact for the state.Approximately 340 individuals serving a broad cross-section of California's K-12, higher education, public, private and non-profit constituencies will participate in 2 ½ days of intense dialogue on topics such as data and research, successful implementations and sustainable networks for collaboration and sharing. The conference will be held in Spring 2017.