Broadening Participation Research Center: Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership

扩大参与研究中心支持历史上一直是黑人的学院和大学(HBCU)开展更广泛的参与研究，并成为严格研究和广泛传播关键理论、结构和教学方法以及对文化敏感的干预措施的国家中心，有助于HBCU成功地培养非裔美国STEM本科生。维尔京群岛大学、菲尔丁研究生院、北卡罗来纳A&T州立大学和美国学院和大学协会的合作项目寻求正式建立STEM领导力促进中心(CASL)。美国在培养足够数量的公民以满足STEM劳动力需求方面继续落后于其他国家。美国要想保持全球竞争力，就必须继续扩大各级STEM教育的参与度。在高等教育机构中，HBCU在培养STEM领域的多样化毕业生方面有着持续的记录，这些毕业生为进一步教育和STEM劳动力做好了准备。通过研究，CASL试图确定HBCU的领导层如何为这一持续的成功做出贡献，然后利用这些知识培养未来的领导者。通过传播其研究成果及其领导力发展模式，CASL最终将使所有高等教育，从而使美国社会受益于HBCU在扩大参与方面的经验和教训。CASL采用了一种开创性的学术方法，其基础是HBCU在扩大参与方面的成功，同时还利用了既定的、与文化相适应的研究和理论框架。因此，CASL能够生成、分析和解释有关学术领导力的广泛参与研究问题。CASL旨在成为美国首屈一指的研究中心，研究和确定在STEM中扩大非裔美国人和其他代表性不足群体参与的学术领导类型，CASL将利用其知识为下一代HBCU领导人的发展做出贡献，这些领导人本身可以为继续扩大参与努力做出贡献。CASL的三个目标是：1)考察直觉的、不成文的领导力卓越准则如何导致HBCU扩大参与成功，并将这些知识整合到STEM高等教育改革中；2)为学者社区提供世界级的领导力发展计划，将个人和机构历史整合到更广泛的参与研究和实践中；以及3)通过主流外联和知识转移渠道，将HBCU的机构叙事纳入国家本科生STEM改革知识库。为了实现这些目标，CASL的举措包括其实证研究议程；战略举措，包括临时论文、学习小组和STEM中心在线平台；以及其领导力发展计划，包括教学和行动学习部分。强有力的外部评估将监测和评估所有目标的进展，为中心的所有活动提供形成性和终结性评估。这个扩大参与研究中心也由NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授联盟资助，其目标是增加STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Broadening Participation Research Centers provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct broadening participation research and serve as national hubs for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical theories, structures and pedagogies, as well as culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. The collaborative project at the University of the Virgin Islands, Fielding Graduate University, North Carolina A&T State University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities seeks to formally establish the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL). The United States continues to lag other nations in preparing sufficient numbers of its citizens to fill STEM workforce needs. For the US to remain globally competitive, it must continue to broaden participation in STEM education at all levels. Among higher education institutions, HBCUs have a sustained record of consistently producing a diverse group of graduates in the STEM fields who are prepared for further education and the STEM workforce. Through research, CASL seeks to determine how the leadership of HBCUs has contributed to this consistent sustained success and then to use that knowledge to prepare future leaders. Through disseminating its research findings and its leadership development model, ultimately CASL will allow all of higher education, and thus American society, to benefit from the experience and lessons of HBCUs in broadening participation.CASL uses a groundbreaking scholarly approach based in the success of HBCUs in broadening participation while also taking advantage of established and culturally-responsive research and theoretical frameworks. CASL is thus able to generate, analyze, and interpret broadening participation research questions about academic leadership. Designed to be the nation's premier research center examining and determining the kind of academic leadership that broadens the participation of African Americans and other underrepresented groups in STEM, CASL will use its knowledge to contribute to the development of next-generation HBCU leaders who can themselves contribute to continued broadening participation efforts. CASL's three objectives are: 1) to examine how intuitive, unwritten codes of excellence in leadership result in the broadening participation success of HBCUs and to integrate this knowledge into STEM higher education reform; 2) to provide a community of scholars with a world-class leadership development program that integrates personal and institutional histories into broadening participation research and practice; and 3) to assimilate the HBCU institutional narrative into the national undergraduate STEM reform knowledge base through mainstream outreach and knowledge transfer outlets. To accomplish these goals, CASL's initiatives include its empirical research agenda; strategic initiatives including occasional papers, study groups, and the STEM Central online platform; and its leadership development program involving both didactic and action learning components. A robust external evaluation will monitor and assess progress on all objectives, providing both formative and summative assessment of all Center activities.This Broadening Participation Research Center is also funded by the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, which targets increasing the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.