Workshops to Increase the Number and Competitiveness of Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)' Proposals to NSF Life STEM Program

这一扩大参与的项目将协调和监督为少数群体服务机构(MSI)的研究人员和领导人举办的三个为期两天的关于STEM教育研究的区域讲习班。研讨会的目标将是提高MSI的能力，为未来STEM劳动力吸引、培养和留住代表不足的学生做出贡献。为了实现这一目标，将实施专门活动，以提高对国家科学基金会当前机会的认识，这将有助于使中小企业做好准备，参与未来STEM劳动力的多样化。这些活动将有助于提高MSI提出的建议的数量和质量，这些建议寻求资金来创建、实施和评估创新的干预模式，这些模式将帮助更多的预科-12年级或本科生选择STEM领域的职业。这一协调努力将促进与课程开发、教师支持和学生参与相关的个人和跨机构能力建设。这一能力建设努力的关键将是重点了解当前的研究背景和对竞争参与NSF提供的STEM教育机会的期望。研讨会将由路易斯安那州新奥尔良的泽维尔大学、佐治亚州亚特兰大的斯佩尔曼学院和新泽西州纽瓦克的罗格斯-纽瓦克学院主办，以提供强化培训，帮助更多的MSI充分参与并为国家STEM教育目标做出贡献。这反过来将与基金会通过创新和尖端研究扩大对STEM的参与的战略方向保持一致。与项目有关的材料将在网上提供，以确保更广泛地传播信息，这些信息将有利于所有MSI和其他与生命STEM倡议有关的研究机构。

This broadening participation project will coordinate and oversee three two-day regional workshops about research on STEM education for teams of researchers and leaders from minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The goal of the workshops will be to increase the capacity of MSIs to contribute to attracting, preparing, and retaining underrepresented students for the future STEM workforce. To achieve this goal, specialized activities will be implemented to create greater awareness of current opportunities at NSF that will help prepare MSIs to take part in diversifying the future STEM workforce. These activities will help increase the quantity and quality of proposals from MSIs seeking funding to create, implement, and evaluate innovative models of intervention that will help more PreK-12 or undergraduate students select careers in STEM fields. This coordinated effort will facilitate individual and cross-institutional capacity building related to curriculum development, teacher support, and student engagement.Critical to this capacity-building effort will be a focus on understanding the current research context and expectations for competitive participation in STEM education opportunities offered by NSF. The workshops will be hosted by Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana; Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and Rutgers-Newark in Newark, New Jersey to provide intensive training to help more MSIs fully participate in and contribute to national STEM education goals. This, in turn, will align with the Foundation's strategic direction for broadening participation in STEM through innovation and cutting-edge research. Project-related materials will be made available online to ensure broader dissemination of information that will be beneficial to all MSIs and other research institutions in relation to the Life STEM initiative.