Broadening Participation Research Center: HBCU STEM Undergraduate Success Research Center

扩大参与研究中心为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）提供支持，以开展扩大参与研究，并作为严格研究和广泛传播关键理论、结构和教学法的国家中心，以及有助于HBCUs成功教育非裔美国人STEM本科生的文化敏感干预措施。莫尔豪斯学院的项目与斯佩尔曼学院和弗吉尼亚州立大学合作，寻求正式建立HBCU STEM本科生成功研究中心- STEM- us。该中心的使命是“通过对我们和国家的融合研究，了解和讲述hbcu的故事；从而记录了HBCUs在STEM教育方面的卓越遗产，并为未来的教育创新做出了贡献。”在高等教育机构中，HBCUs在持续培养STEM领域的多元化毕业生方面有着持续的记录，这些毕业生为继续接受教育和STEM劳动力做好了准备。通过研究、教育、知识建设和推广，该中心将对STEM教育改革和扩大所有hbcu的参与产生影响，但也将使所有高等教育，从而使社会受益于hbcu在扩大参与方面的经验和教训。STEM-US将进行系统和全面的调查，以阐明具有不同学术文化的HBCUs如何比其他机构成功地以更高的比率毕业于非洲裔美国学生；提高非裔美国STEM学生获得博士学位的比例；给学生灌输一种更强的幸福感。STEM-US将采取全面的方法，包括：1)一项整合研究、教育、知识转移和外展的战略，以便在地方、州和国家层面理解和传播hbcu在扩大参与方面的贡献、影响和积极遗产；2)一个共同的理论框架，揭示个人和系统的脆弱性，同时发展必要的制度支持，以促进学生的成功和保留；3)开展研究，支持以证据为基础的干预措施的发展，为教育改革提供信息。具体的研究项目将从一个核心研究中心产生，该中心由三个合作机构组成——莫尔豪斯学院、斯佩尔曼学院和弗吉尼亚州立大学，以及其他50个HBCU参与者。该中心将使用以社区为基础的参与式研究模式进行融合研究，包括教育和知识转移，这将允许共享数据和结果，以改善HBCU网络中的学生成果。该中心将利用在线通讯、白皮书、listservs、博客、网络研讨会和研讨会等方式，向所有经认证的hbcu提供教育和知识转移策略。一个强有力的外部评价将监测和评估所有目标的进展情况，对中心的所有活动提供形成性和总结性评估。这个扩大参与研究中心是由历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科项目资助的，由研究生教育联盟和教授项目、NSF INCLUDES、建立和扩大项目、EHR核心研究项目和融合加速器项目提供了重要而慷慨的共同资助。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。

Broadening Participation Research Centers provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct broadening participation research and serve as national hubs for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical theories, structures and pedagogies, as well as culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. The project at Morehouse College, in partnership with Spelman College and Virginia State University, seeks to formally establish the HBCU STEM Undergraduate Success Research Center – STEM-US. The mission of the center is to “understand and tell the stories of HBCUs through convergence research for us and the Nation; thereby, documenting the legacy of excellence in STEM education at HBCUs and contributing to future educational innovation”. Among higher education institutions, HBCUs have a sustained record of consistently producing a diverse group of graduates in the STEM fields who are prepared for further education and the STEM workforce. Through research, education, knowledge building, and outreach, this center will have an impact on STEM education reform and broadening participation at all HBCUs, but will also allow all of higher education, and thus society, to benefit from the experience and lessons of HBCUs in broadening participation.STEM-US will conduct a systematic and comprehensive investigation to elucidate how HBCUs with diverse academic cultures successfully graduate African American students at a higher rate than other institutions; produce a higher rate of African American STEM students receiving PhDs; and instill in students a greater sense of well-being. STEM-US will take a comprehensive approach that includes: 1) a strategy integrating research, education, knowledge transfer and outreach to understand and disseminate, at local, state and national levels, the contributions, impact, and positive legacy of HBCUs in broadening participation; 2) a common theoretical framework that exposes individual and systematic vulnerabilities while developing the institutional supports necessary to promote success and retention of students; and 3) research to support the development of evidence-based interventions that will inform education reform. Specific research projects will emanate from a core research hub consisting of three partner institutions - Morehouse College, Spelman College and Virginia State University - as well as fifty other HBCU participants. The center will conduct convergence research using a community-based participatory research model to include education and knowledge transfer that will allow for the sharing of data and results to improve student outcomes across the HBCU network. The center will conduct outreach to all accredited HBCUs with education and knowledge transfer strategies utilizing online newsletters, white papers, listservs, blogs, webinars, and workshop-based conferences. A robust external evaluation will monitor and assess progress on all objectives, providing both formative and summative assessment of all center activities. This Broadening Participation Research Center is funded by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program, with significant and generous cofunding provided by the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program , NSF INCLUDES, the Build and Broaden program, the EHR Core Research program, and the Convergence Accelerator program.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.