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

扩大参与研究中心提供支持历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）进行扩大参与研究，并作为严格研究和广泛传播批判理论，结构和方法的国家中心，以及有助于HBCU在教育非洲裔美国人STEM本科生方面取得成功的文化敏感干预措施。 维尔京群岛大学、菲尔丁研究生大学、北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学和美国学院和大学协会的合作项目旨在正式建立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。 美国要保持全球竞争力，就必须继续扩大各级STEM教育的参与。 在高等教育机构中，只有HBCUs在STEM领域持续培养多样化的毕业生群体，为继续教育和STEM劳动力做好准备。 通过研究，CASL旨在确定HBCU的领导力如何为这种持续的成功做出贡献，然后利用这些知识为未来的领导者做好准备。 通过传播其研究成果和领导力发展模型，最终CASL将允许所有高等教育，从而美国社会，从HBCUs在扩大参与方面的经验和教训中受益。CASL使用基于HBCUs在扩大参与方面的成功的开创性学术方法，同时也利用了既定的和文化响应的研究和理论框架。 因此，CASL能够生成，分析和解释学术领导力的广泛参与研究问题。 CASL旨在成为全国首屈一指的研究中心，研究和确定扩大非裔美国人和其他代表性不足的群体参与STEM的学术领导力，CASL将利用其知识为下一代HBCU领导人的发展做出贡献，他们可以自己为继续扩大参与努力做出贡献。CASL的三个目标是：1）研究直观的，不成文的卓越领导代码如何导致HBCUs参与成功的扩大，并将这些知识融入STEM高等教育改革; 2）为学者提供一个世界-班级领导力发展计划，将个人和机构的历史纳入扩大参与研究和实践;以及3）通过主流外展和知识转移渠道，将HBCU的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的举措包括其实证研究议程;战略举措，包括不定期论文，研究小组和STEM中心在线平台;以及涉及教学和行动学习组件的领导力发展计划。 一个强有力的外部评估将监测和评估所有目标的进展，提供所有中心活动的形成性和总结性评估。这个扩大参与研究中心也由NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授资助，该奖项旨在增加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NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。

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.