HBCU-UP NSF Workshop and Outreach Day at Virginia Union University

传统黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高hbcu科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师研究能力的会议。弗吉尼亚联合大学将举办为期一天的研讨会，为大西洋中部地区非研究型hbcu和社区学院的教师和管理人员提供有关STEM资助机会的信息。研讨会将包括来自不同部门的国家科学基金会项目官员，他们将与来自国家科学基金会基金中代表性不足的机构的教师、管理人员和赞助项目官员进行交流，讨论资助机会和资助管理策略。研讨会的建议日期为2018年9月21日，预计有100-150人参加。hbcu是一个由20个州和哥伦比亚特区的大约100所高等教育机构组成的团体，它们为STEM劳动力的多样性做出了不成比例的积极贡献。尽管hbcu和STEM之间的关系很重要，但hbcu和社区学院作为一个群体，在旨在支持STEM活动的联邦资金流中代表性不足。该研讨会将允许国家科学基金会项目官员与在国家科学基金会资助中代表性不足的机构的教职员工进行接触，同时就如何提高这些代表性不足的机构的总体资助率进行讨论。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences that seek to increase the research capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at HBCUs. Virginia Union University will host a one-day workshop to provide information on STEM funding opportunities to faculty and administrators from non-research intensive HBCUs and community colleges in the mid-Atlantic region. The workshop will include NSF program officers from various directorates to engage with faculty, administrators and sponsored program officers from institutions typically underrepresented in NSF funding to discuss funding opportunities and grant management strategies. The proposed date of the workshop is September 21, 2018 and 100-150 participants are expected to attend. HBCUs are a group of approximately 100 institutions of higher education across 20 states and the District of Columbia that make a disproportionately positive contribution to the diversity of the STEM workforce. Despite the significance of the relationship between HBCUs and STEM, HBCUs and community colleges, as a group, are underrepresented in the federal funding streams intended to support STEM activities. This workshop will allow NSF program officers to engage with faculty and staff from institutions typically underrepresented in NSF funding, while generating discussions on how to improve the overall funding rates of these underrepresented institutions.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.