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

这一扩大参与的项目将侧重于一个地区性研讨会，旨在提高历史上黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的能力，为未来学习研究部各种项目的竞争制定高质量的提案。拟议的工作将通过三个具体步骤进行，包括：(1)讲习班前网络研讨会，以介绍机会并为之奠定基础；(2)为期两天的完整讲习班，使参与者参与严格的赠款撰写工作；(3)讲习班后后续行动，以提供持续的支持和提案制定指导。通过一个理论驱动的过程，目标是围绕被证明在留住STEM渠道中的学生有效的战略和想法，建立某种程度的一致性，以最大限度地提高赠款生产率。多层次讲习班将为提高与会者利用先前知识和使用最佳做法改进未来赠款编写工作的能力奠定基础。专业活动将有助于提高HBCU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。这一能力建设工作的核心将是重点了解当前的研究背景和对竞争性参与国家科学基金提供的资助机会的期望。这反过来将与基金会的战略方向保持一致，即通过有意义的尖端STEM教育研究扩大对STEM的参与。研讨会的资源将在网上提供，以促进有益于HBCU和其他参与扩大参与努力的教育机构的信息的更广泛传播。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。

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.