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

扩大参与研究中心为历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 提供支持，以开展扩大参与研究，并作为严格研究和广泛传播批判理论、结构和教学法以及文化敏感干预措施的国家中心，这些干预措施有助于 HBCU 成功教育非裔美国 STEM 本科生。 维尔京群岛大学、菲尔丁研究生大学、北卡罗来纳州 A&T 州立大学和美国高等院校协会的合作项目旨在正式建立 STEM 领导力促进中心 (CASL)。在培养足够数量的公民来满足 STEM 劳动力需求方面，美国仍然落后于其他国家。 美国要保持全球竞争力，就必须继续扩大各级 STEM 教育的参与范围。 在高等教育机构中，只有 HBCU 能够持续培养 STEM 领域的多元化毕业生，为继续教育做好准备，并成为 STEM 劳动力。 通过研究，CASL 试图确定 HBCU 的领导力如何为这种持续不断的成功做出贡献，然后利用这些知识来培养未来的领导者。 通过传播其研究成果和领导力发展模型，CASL 最终将使所有高等教育机构乃至美国社会受益于 HBCU 在扩大参与方面的经验和教训。CASL 采用基于 HBCU 在扩大参与方面的成功的开创性学术方法，同时还利用现有的、具有文化敏感性的研究和理论框架。 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，审查和确定哪种学术领导力能够扩大非裔美国人和其他代表性不足的群体在 STEM 中的参与，CASL 将利用其知识为下一代 HBCU 领导者的发展做出贡献，而这些领导者本身也可以为持续扩大参与努力做出贡献。CASL 的三个目标是： 1) 研究直观、不成文的卓越领导力准则如何导致 HBCU 扩大参与成功，并将这些知识融入 STEM 高等教育改革中； 2）为学者群体提供世界一流的领导力发展计划，将个人和机构的历史融入到扩大参与研究和实践中； 3) 通过主流外展和知识转移渠道，将 HBCU 机构叙述纳入国家本科生 STEM 改革知识库。 为了实现这些目标，CASL 的举措包括实证研究议程；战略举措，包括不定期论文、研究小组和 STEM Central 在线平台；及其领导力发展计划，涉及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，为所有中心活动提供形成性和总结性评估。该扩大参与研究中心还由 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟资助，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价值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, only 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.