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

扩大参与研究中心为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）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关键理论、结构和教学法的国家中心，以及有助于HBCUs成功教育非裔美国人STEM本科生的文化敏感干预措施。维尔京群岛大学、菲尔丁研究生院、北卡罗来纳农工州立大学和美国高校协会的合作项目寻求正式建立STEM领导力提升中心（CASL）。在培养足够数量的公民来满足STEM劳动力需求方面，美国继续落后于其他国家。为了保持全球竞争力，美国必须继续扩大各级STEM教育的参与。在高等教育机构中，只有HBCUs在持续培养STEM领域的多样化毕业生群体方面有持续的记录，这些毕业生为继续教育和STEM劳动力做好了准备。通过研究，CASL试图确定hbcu的领导如何为这种持续的成功做出贡献，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式，最终CASL将允许所有高等教育，从而美国社会，从hbcu扩大参与的经验和教训中受益。CASL采用了一种开创性的学术方法，这种方法基于hbcu在扩大参与方面的成功，同时也利用了既定的和文化响应的研究和理论框架。因此，中国科学院能够产生、分析和解释关于学术领导的扩大参与研究问题。CASL旨在成为全国首屈一指的研究中心，研究和确定拓宽非裔美国人和其他代表性不足群体在STEM领域的学术领导力，CASL将利用其知识为培养下一代HBCU领导者做出贡献，这些领导者可以为继续扩大参与做出贡献。CASL的三个目标是：1)研究直观的、不成文的卓越领导力准则如何导致hbcu的参与成功扩大，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项目，将个人和机构的历史整合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的制度叙事融入全国本科STEM改革知识库。为了实现这些目标，中科院的举措包括其实证研究议程；战略举措，包括不定期论文、学习小组和STEM Central在线平台；它的领导力发展项目包括教学和行动学习两部分。强有力的外部评价将监测和评估所有目标的进展情况，对中心的所有活动进行形成性和总结性评估。这个扩大参与研究中心也由美国国家科学基金会的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民族教师的数量。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.