Building the capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increase competitiveness in DRL programs

这个扩大参与的项目将侧重于一个区域研讨会，旨在提高传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的能力，为未来学习研究部门各种项目的竞争制定高质量的提案。提议的工作将通过三个具体步骤进行，包括：(1)研讨会前的网络研讨会，介绍和奠定机会的基础；(2)为期两天的研讨会，让参与者参与严格的拨款写作练习；(3)工作坊后跟进，提供持续支持和提案制定指导。通过一个理论驱动的过程，目标是建立一定程度的一致性，以最大限度地提高围绕战略和想法的拨款效率，这些战略和想法被证明可以有效地留住STEM管道中的学生。这个多层次的研讨会将建立一个跳板，以提高与会者的能力，使他们能够利用先前的知识和最佳实践来改进未来的拨款写作工作。专门的活动将帮助hbcu做好准备，增加他们对未来STEM劳动力多样化的贡献，支持STEM领域的创新和创造力，扩大网络战略，并促进学习机会。这项能力建设工作的核心将是了解当前的研究背景和对国家科学基金会提供的资助机会的竞争性参与的期望。反过来，这将与基金会的战略方向保持一致，即通过有意义的前沿STEM教育研究扩大STEM的参与。讲习班的资源将在网上提供，以促进更广泛地传播有利于hbcu和其他致力于扩大参与努力的教育机构的信息。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。

This broadening participation project will focus on a regional workshop aimed at increasing Historically Black Colleges and Universities' (HBCUs) capacity to develop high quality proposals for future competitions of various programs in the Division of Research on Learning. The proposed effort will occur through three specific steps involving a: (1) pre-workshop webinar to introduce and lay the foundation for the opportunity; (2) full two-day workshop to engage participants in a rigorous grant-writing exercise; and (3) post workshop follow-up to provide ongoing support and proposal development guidance. Through a theory-driven process, the goal is to establish some degree of conformity for maximizing grant productivity around strategies and ideas shown to be effective in retaining students in the STEM pipeline. The multi-tiered workshop will establish a launching pad for increasing attendees' capacity to build on prior knowledge and use best practices to improve future grant writing efforts. Specialized activities will help prepare HBCUs to increase their contributions to diversifying the future STEM workforce, support innovation and creativity in STEM fields, expand networking strategies, and promote opportunities to learn. Central to this capacity-building effort will be a focus on understanding the current research context and expectations for competitive participation in funding opportunities offered by NSF. This, in turn, will align with the Foundation's strategic direction for broadening participation in STEM through meaningful cutting-edge STEM education research. Resources from the workshop will be made available online to facilitate broader dissemination of information beneficial to HBCUs and other education institutions engaging in broadening participation efforts.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.