HSI Conference: Transforming STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions - Regional Insights from the Southwest

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)亲爱的同事信NSF 17-092：改善西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)的本科生STEM教育呼吁开展项目，以支持会议，这些会议将确定HSI本科生科学、技术工程和数学(STEM)教育方面最关键的挑战和机会，以及符合NSF的使命、政策和实践的潜在可行解决方案。亚利桑那大学(UA)提议召开一次地区性会议，聚集来自西南地区两年制和四年制拉美裔服务机构(HSI)的多达100名学生、教师、从业者和行政人员。研讨会参与者将从亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州和加利福尼亚州的150个HSI中招募。为期三天的研讨会将集中讨论与STEM本科教育有关的五个主题：(1)实现从两年制到四年制HSIs的过渡：跨院校伙伴关系的差距和机会；(2)绘制研究1(R1)HSI在本科STEM教育中的作用：研究作为大学和职业成功的途径；(3)利用创新和包容性的教学方法和课程：新教学举措的差距和机会；(4)绘制HSI的机会和挑战：招聘、保留和坚持：成功的范例和潜在的新举措，以及(5)与HSI的学生见面：在大学层面上响应文化的STEM教育的意义和作用。研讨会预计将产生一份报告，重点是西南地区高风险投资的区域挑战和机遇。研讨会参与者将致力于确定改善HSIS STEM教育的优先领域。会议的成果将：(1)促进有关人口和地理上位于美国西南部的高等专科学校教育使命的关键差距和机会的知识；(2)确定和描述最能满足西语裔学生在科学、工程和数学教育领域内和跨领域的需求的机构合作模式；(3)提高我们对有效做法的理解，以在拉美裔学生中激发对STEM领域的持续兴趣和成功；以及(4)综合人种学研究的证据，为高等专科学校的机构变革、教学法和STEM课程提供信息。

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 Arizona (UA) proposes a regional conference that brings together up to 100 students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators from southwestern 2- and 4-year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Workshop participants will be recruited from the 150 HSIs in Arizona, New Mexico and California. The 3-day workshop will focus on five topics relevant to STEM undergraduate education: (1) Enabling transitions from 2- to 4-year HSIs: gaps and opportunities for cross-institutional partnerships, (2) Charting the role of Research 1 (R1) HSIs in undergraduate STEM education: research as a pathway for college and career success, (3) Leveraging innovative and inclusive pedagogies and curricula: gaps and opportunities for new instructional initiatives, (4) Mapping HSI opportunities and challenges to recruitment, retention, and persistence: successful examples and potential new initiatives, and (5) Meeting HSI students where they are: the meaning and role of culturally-responsive STEM education at the college level. The workshop is expected to results in a report that is focused on the regional challenges and opportunities of HSIs in the southwest. The workshop participants will work toward identifying priority areas for improving STEM education in HSIs. The outcomes of the conference will: (1) serve to advance knowledge regarding critical gaps and opportunities in bolstering the educational mission of HSIs that are demographically and geographically situated in the Southwestern United States , (2) identify and characterize models of institutional collaboration that best serve the needs of Hispanic students within and across science, engineering, and mathematics education,(3) improve our understanding of effective practices for generating sustained interest and success in STEM fields among Hispanics, and (4) synthesize evidence from ethnographic research to inform institutional change, pedagogy, and STEM curricula in HSIs.