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

会议：学习在少数族裔服务机构和以白人为主的机构之间建立真正的伙伴关系

• 批准号: 1820920
• 负责人: Michael Dennin
• 金额: $ 2.53万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820920&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Learning; Build; Authentic; Partnerships

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.

平等地获得科学探究和STEM职业是美国国家科学基金会和整个国家的重要目标。然而，少数民族学生参与科学事业的比例与他们在总人口中的代表性不成比例。一个障碍是在少数族裔服务机构（msi）和主要是白人机构（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职位，依靠信任网络，在研究合作等领域支持精英机构。一个可能的解决方案是建立新的以教师为基础的网络，在msi和pwi之间的相互信任和交流中茁壮成长。本次研讨会将召集来自msi和pwi的一组教师，开始讨论如何开发这样一个网络。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（20名来自管理学院，20名来自pwi）将参与一系列练习，以促进跨机构类型伙伴关系的发展，并开始撰写支持伙伴关系的提案的规划阶段。教师们将彼此会面，讨论合作模式，并制定可用于提交给私人基金会和国家资助机构的拨款提案的想法。研讨会评估将通过调查来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，以确定它们是否导致了提交或授予赠款。研讨会的讨论将集中在一起，以制定一份关于发展MSI-PWI网络最佳做法的政策文件，该文件将通过张贴在加州大学尔湾分校教与学司网站上的方式公开分发，并在相关会议和区域会议上公开发表。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。