Conference: Learning to Build Authentic Partnerships Between Minority Serving Institutions and Predominately White Institutions

平等地获得科学研究和STEM职业是国家科学基金会和整个国家的一个重要目标。然而，少数族裔学生参加科学事业的比例与他们在总人口中的比例不同。一个障碍是少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的科学家和以白人为主的机构(PWI)的科学家之间缺乏联系。这种脱节导致了一个自我延续的循环，主要是PWI毕业生进入学术界和工业界的最高级别，依赖于在研究合作等领域有利于精英机构的信任网络。一种可能的解决方案是建立新的以教师为基础的网络，这种网络依靠MSI和PWI之间的相互信任和交流而蓬勃发展。本次研讨会将召集一群来自MSI和PWI的教职员工，就如何发展这样的网络展开对话。为期两天的研讨会将于2018年6月25日至26日在加州大学欧文分校举行，约40名教职员工(MSI和PWI各20名)将参加一系列练习，以促进跨机构类型的合作伙伴关系的发展，并开始编写支持合作伙伴关系的提案的规划阶段。教员们将彼此会面，参与关于模式伙伴关系的讨论，并制定可用于提交给私人基金会和国家资助机构的赠款提案的想法。将利用调查对讲习班进行评估，以衡量社交网络因会议而发生的变化，并跟踪会议上建立的伙伴关系，以确定这些伙伴关系是否导致了赠款的提交或发放。研讨会讨论将汇总起来，以制定一份关于发展MSI-PWI网络的最佳实践的政策文件，该文件将通过在加州大学欧文分校的网站上张贴给教学部门，并在相关会议和地区会议上公开发表而公开分发。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。

Equal access to scientific inquiry and STEM careers is an important goal for the National Science Foundation and for the nation as a whole. However, minority students are not participating in the scientific enterprise in proportion to their representation within the general population. One barrier is the lack of connections between scientists at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and at primarily white institutions (PWIs). This disconnect leads to a self-perpetuating cycle of primarily PWI graduates entering the highest ranks of academia and industry, relying on networks of trust that favor elite institutions in areas such as research collaborations. One possible solution is to build new faculty-based networks that thrive on mutual trust and exchange between MSIs and PWIs. This workshop will convene a group of faculty from MSIs and PWIs to begin a conversation about how to develop such a network.The two-day workshop, to be held June 25-26, 2018 at the University of California, Irvine, will engage approximately 40 faculty members (20 from MSIs and 20 from PWIs) in a series of exercises to facilitate the development of partnerships across institutional types, and to begin the planning stages for writing proposals to support the partnerships. Faculty will meet each other, engage in discussion about model partnerships, and formulate ideas that could be used for grant proposals to be submitted to private foundations and national funding agencies. Workshop assessment will be conducted using surveys to measure how social networks have changed because of the meeting, and to follow up with partnerships established at the meeting to determine if they led to the submission or awarding of grants. Workshop discussions will be aggregated to develop a policy paper on best practices in developing MSI-PWI networks, which will be circulated publicly via posting on the University of California, Irvine website for the Division of Teaching and Learning, and by public presentation at relevant conferences and regional meetings.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.