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

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。亚利桑那大学（UA）提出了一个区域性会议，汇集了来自西南2年制和4年制西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）的多达100名学生、教师、从业者和管理人员。讲习班的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本科教育相关的五个主题：(1)实现从2年制到4年制hsi的过渡：跨机构合作的差距和机会；(2)绘制研究1 (R1) hsi在本科STEM教育中的作用：研究是大学和职业成功的途径；(3)利用创新和包容性的教学法和课程；(4)将HSI的机会和挑战映射到招聘、保留和坚持：成功的例子和潜在的新举措，以及(5)与HSI学生会面：在大学层面进行文化响应的STEM教育的意义和作用。预计讲习班将产生一份报告，重点关注西南地区卫生保健机构的区域挑战和机遇。研讨会参与者将努力确定在高智商国家改善STEM教育的优先领域。会议的成果将：(1)有助于推进关于支持美国西南部人口和地理位置上的hsi教育使命的关键差距和机会的知识；(2)确定和表征最能满足科学，工程和跨科学领域西班牙裔学生需求的机构合作模式；(3)提高我们对西班牙裔美国人在STEM领域产生持续兴趣和成功的有效实践的理解，以及(4)综合来自人种学研究的证据，为hsi的制度变革、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.