HSI Conference: Understanding and Improving Readiness and Student Transitions

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）致同事的信NSF 17-092：改善西班牙裔服务机构（hsi）的本科STEM教育呼吁项目支持会议，这些会议将确定有关hsi本科科学，技术工程和数学（STEM）教育的最关键挑战和机遇，以及属于NSF使命，政策和实践的潜在可行解决方案。休斯顿大学将举办为期两天的会议，会议将讨论最突出的挑战和机遇，并特别关注西班牙裔STEM学生的三个重要过渡点：从高中到高等教育的过渡；社区学院向大学的转型；以及从大学到劳动力或研究生/专业学校的过渡。一个组织委员会负责将精力和注意力集中在学生发展的三个关键方面，这些方面构成了会议的主题。这次会议不仅将阐明目前的研究成果，而且还将强调需要进一步研究的关键领域。会议将包括60名与会者作为主要议程，以及25名校长和首席学术官参加“HSI校长会议”。会议的组织和实施目标是：1)综合全面和详细地了解hsi现在和未来十年面临的最重要挑战，特别关注大学准备、大学准备、劳动力或研究生/专业学校准备；2)确定可能有效应对这些挑战和机遇的关键战略、举措和计划；3)让与会者回到他们的校园，并强烈地意识到目前在HSI校园里什么是有效的。会议将提出一系列重要的学生过渡问题以供进一步讨论，并将探索和传播经验证明有效的实践、计划和策略。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter NSF 17-092: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) calls for projects to support conferences that will identify the most critical challenges and opportunities regarding undergraduate science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at HSIs, and potential actionable solutions that fall within NSF's mission, policies, and practices. The University of Houston will host a two-day conference where the most salient challenges and opportunities will be addressed with a special focus on three important transition points for Hispanic STEM students: the transition from high school to post-secondary education; the transition from community college to university; and the transition from college to the workforce or to graduate/professional school.An organizing committee is charged with bringing energy and attention to the three critical aspects of student development that form the conference themes. The conference will not only make clear what research is currently available, but will also highlight areas critical for further investigation. The conference will include sixty participants for the main agenda, as well as twenty-five presidents and chief academic officers for the "HSI Presidents' Convening". The meeting will be organized and conducted with the goals to: 1) synthesize a well-informed and detailed understanding of the most important challenges facing HSIs now and in the decade, with special attention to college readiness, university readiness, and workforce or graduate/professional school readiness; 2) identify key strategies, initiatives, and programs that are likely to address these challenges and opportunities effectively; and 3) return conferees to their campuses with a strong sense of what is working well on HSI campuses now. The conference will frame an important set of student-transition issues for further discussion and will explore and disseminate practices, programs, and strategies that have been demonstrated empirically to be efficacious.