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

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)研究行动和实践(RAP)研讨会将提升研究和机构合作伙伴关系，以推进STEM，并与利益攸关方建立合作，使HBCU的研究人员能够更好地为需要STEM投入的国家努力做出贡献。尽管HBCU只占我们国家大学的一小部分，但不成比例地，HBCU的STEM学位获得者是非洲裔美国人。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，即在劳动力市场填补所需的STEM专业知识并使STEM劳动力多样化。研讨会活动的预期成果是一项行动计划，该计划将在HBCU研究人员和STEM利益相关者之间分享在建立实践社区方面的工作成果。由于美国面临专家短缺，无法满足预计的STEM劳动力需求，黑人学院和大学历来是被认真考虑为STEM专业知识来源的主要机构，特别是对于传统上对STEM参与不足的学生和研究人员。HBCU研究行动和实践(RAP)研讨会旨在强调HBCU越来越多地为科研事业作出贡献的能力。HBCU RAP研讨会的目标是通过以下方式建设HBCU的研究能力：1)举办一次研讨会，以增加HBCU研究人员、管理人员和各利益攸关方之间的协作能量，并向HBCU提高对NSF 300计划的认识；2)召开研究论坛，在战略上定位于推进STEM行动和实践的背景下，提升和翻译HBCU领导的研究；以及3)建立实践社区，以培养关系，以便HBCU研究人员、管理人员、STEM的支持者将开展合作，推动HBCU的STEM研究，最终提高机构的研究能力。这一奖项反映了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。

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.