A Workshop for Broadening Participation in the Economics Profession: Proposal Writing and Grants Management

摘要：扩大参与经济学专业的研讨会：提案写作和赠款管理非洲裔美国人在经济学专业中的代表性不足，相对于他们在美国的人口比例，历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的研究人员在NSF资助的经济学研究活动中的参与率甚至远远低于非洲裔美国人在经济学专业中的代表性。 在美国劳动力日益多样化的时代，扩大对STEM研究的参与已成为必要。 参与率低的部分原因是HBCU研究人员缺乏高质量的提案。 这个拟议的研讨会旨在将来自HBCU，NSF项目主任，HBCU管理员和NSF获奖者的研究人员聚集在一起，制定提高HBCU赠款申请质量的方法。 该讲习班将提供一个“动手”的经验，在写作竞争性的研究补助金申请和管理奖项，如果一个获奖。本次研讨会的预期成果包括HBCU向NSF提交的竞争性提案数量增加，HBCU研究人员之间以及HBC和非HBCU研究人员之间的合作增加，HBCU经济学教师在参考期刊上的出版物增加，并最终在HBCU建立强大的研究基础设施和文化。研讨会的关键方面是将为新研究人员提供长期指导，以及将发展的研究人员之间的合作。参与HBCU管理员将让他们意识到研究是多么耗时，因此说服他们提供时间释放他们的教师能够写有竞争力的建议。 本次研讨会的成果将有助于在美国发展一个强大而多样化的STEM科学界。来自美国东南部的约20名研究活跃的HBCU经济学家，NSF资助获奖者，社会行为和经济学理事会（SBE）的NSF项目主任和HBCU管理员将被邀请参加本次研讨会。先前的NSF获奖者将被分配为HBCU教师的导师，NSF项目官员将在研讨会上担任顾问。 讲习班的重点将放在赠款编写和赠款管理的实际方面。 这个研讨会成功的关键是要求每个参与者都有一个研究项目的大纲草案，他/她将在研讨会上进行完善，并在研讨会结束后继续与他/她的导师一起进行完善，并最终提交给NSF申请资金。 如果成功，这些努力不仅可以在其他区域推广，而且可以在其他学科推广，目前的学员将在今后的努力中担任导师。 为评估工作坊的成效，参与研究者将收集参与者在参与前后的研究生产力数据。为进行有效的评估，项目负责人还将收集关于对照组的信息，以便能够评估讲习班的有效性或其他方面。 本次研讨会将有助于在美国发展强大而多样化的经济学专业，从而为美国经济科学的领导地位

Abstract: A Workshop for Broadening Participation in the Economics Profession: Proposal Writing and Grant ManagementAfrican Americans are under-represented in the Economics profession relative to their population share in the U.S. The participation rate of researchers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in NSF funded research activities in economics is even much lower than African American representation in the Economics profession. In an era of increasing diversity of the U.S. workforce, broadening participation in STEM research has become a necessity. Part of this low participation rate can be attributed to lack of supply of quality proposals from HBCU researchers. This proposed Workshop aims to bring researchers from HBCUs, NSF Program Directors, HBCU Administrators and NSF Awardees together to develop approaches to increase quality submission of grant applications from HBCUs. The Workshop will provide a "hands on" experience in writing competitive research grant applications and managing awards should one win award. Expected outcomes of this Workshop include increased number of competitive proposals submitted to NSF from HBCUs, increased collaboration among HBCU researchers and among HBC and non-HBCU researchers, increased publications in refereed journals by HBCU economics faculty, and ultimately a strong research infrastructure and culture in HBCUs. Key aspects of the Workshop is the long term mentoring that will be provided for new researchers, as well as the collaboration across researchers that will develop. Involving HBCU Administrators will let them realize how time consuming research is and therefore convince them provide time release for their faculty to be able write competitive proposals. The results of this Workshop will contribute to the development of a strong and diverse STEM scientific community in the U.S.About 20 research-active HBCU economists from the Southeastern U.S., NSF grant awardees, NSF Program Directors from the Social Behavioral and Economics Directorate (SBE), and HBCU Administrators will be invited to this Workshop. Prior NSF awardee will be assigned as mentors to the HBCU faculty and NSF Program Officers will act as resource persons at the Workshop. The focus of the Workshop will be on the practical aspects of grant writing and grant management. The key to success of this workshop is the requirement that each participant comes in with a draft outline of a research project which s/he will work to refine at the workshop and continue to work on refining with his/her mentor after the Workshop and ultimately submit to the NSF for funding. If successful, the efforts can be replicated not only in other regions but also in other disciplines with current mentees acting as mentors in future efforts. To gauge the success of the Workshop, the PIs will collect data on the research productivity of participants before and after participation. For effective evaluation, the PIs will also collect information on a control group in order to be able evaluate the effectiveness or otherwise of the Workshop. This Workshop will contribute to the development of a strong and diverse Economics profession in the U.S., thus contributing the U.S.' leadership in economic science.