DCL: HBCU Conference Proposal: A National Symposium to Build Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through Collaborations with STEM Advocates and Practi

历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）研究行动与实践（RAP）研讨会将提升研究和机构伙伴关系，以推进STEM，并与利益相关者建立合作关系，使HBCU的研究人员更有影响力，为需要STEM投入的国家努力做出贡献。虽然只占美国大学的一小部分，但HBCUs毕业生中获得STEM学位的非裔美国人比例很高。会议的合作和传播战略将促进HBCU的研究人员和利益相关者支持实现国家的目标，即填补劳动力市场所需的STEM专业知识，并使STEM劳动力多样化。研讨会活动的预期结果是一项行动计划，该计划将分享在HBCU研究人员和STEM利益相关者之间建立实践社区的工作。由于美国面临专家短缺，无法满足预计的STEM劳动力需求，历史上的黑人学院和大学是被认真考虑作为STEM专业知识来源的主要机构，特别是对于传统上没有参与STEM的学生和研究人员。HBCU研究行动与实践（RAP）研讨会旨在强调HBCU为科学研究事业做出越来越大贡献的能力。HBCU RAP研讨会的目标是通过以下方式建立HBCU的研究能力：1)举办研讨会，增加HBCU研究人员、管理人员和利益相关者之间的合作能量，提高对NSF 300个HBCU项目的认识；2)召开研究论坛，提升和转化由HBCU领导的研究，使其在战略上定位于推动STEM行动和实践；3)建立一个实践社区，培养关系，使HBCU研究人员、管理人员、和STEM支持者将开展合作，推进hbcu的STEM研究，最终提高机构的研究能力。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 College and University (HBCU) Research Action and Practice (RAP) Symposium will elevate research and institutional partnernships to advance STEM, and build collaborations with stakeholders, giving researchers at HBCUs greater leverage to contribute to national efforts that require STEM input. Though a small segment of our Nation's colleges, HBCUs disproportionately graduate African American STEM degree recipients. The conference's collaboration and dissemination strategies will catalyze HBCU researchers and stakeholders to support achievement of the Nation's goals of filling needed STEM expertise in the labor market and diversifying the STEM workforce. An expected outcome of the Symposium activities is an action plan that will share what works in building a community of practice between HBCU researchers and STEM stakeholders.As the U.S. faces a shortage of experts to fill projected STEM workforce needs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities are prime institutions to seriously be considered as a source of STEM expertise, especially for students and researchers that have been traditionally under-involved in STEM. The HBCU Research Action and Practice (RAP) Symposium seeks to highlight the capacity of HBCUs to increasingly contribute to the scientific research enterprise. The objectives of the HBCU RAP Symposium is to build the research capacity of HBCUs through: 1) hosting a workshop to increase the collaborative energy between HBCU researchers, administrators and a cross-section of stakeholders, and increase awareness of NSF's 300 programs to HBCUs, 2) convening a research forum to elevate and translate research led by HBCUs in a setting that strategically positions it to advance STEM action and practice and 3) building a community of practice to cultivate relationships so that HBCU researchers, administrators, and STEM supporters will develop collaborations to advance STEM research at HBCUs eventually increasing institutional research capacity.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.