Visiting Innovative Scholar Research Program for Institutions Orienting to National Needs (VISION)

新一代的美国中小型学院和大学（SMCU）的高层领导认识到，有必要在校园内建立一个科学和工程（SE）的研究文化，以成为更有竞争力的国家和联邦基金，以提高他们的学生的机会，并参与创新和创业，以支持国家经济。然而，它们的机构往往缺乏寻求这些机会所需的资本和基础设施资源。这些领导者需要一种方法来识别，招聘，培养和留住创新的教师，以完成他们的研究任务。想要进行研究的SMCU教师往往被高教学负荷所吓倒，在某些情况下，每学期多达5门课。改变是必要的，特别是在少数民族服务机构（MSIs），包括历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），这些机构教育了越来越多的人口，以满足新兴的全球挑战美国在科学和工程创新方面的首要地位。超过58%的965，000 S E博士学位在非学术职位，调查人员认为有机会发展教师队伍，并装备新一代在这些关键机构从事学术工作，以提高美国的全球竞争力。面向国家需求的机构的访问创新学者研究计划（VISION）旨在通过破坏阻碍教师领导的研究的高教学负荷，并将教学，研究和创新的关键实践转移到SMCU领导人和教师，来促进SMCU在国家关注的战略领域的可持续研究活动。VISION旨在通过招聘，培训，安置和支持职业生涯早期和中期的SE博士学位持有者作为SMCU的访问学者，最终实现这些目标。在这个试点项目中，VISION专门解决了国家战略问题，以加速美国的研究活动，并扩大对计算信息科学和工程（CISE）的参与。 拟议的工作将建立一个面向研究的，全职的，初级和高级教师从五个少数民族服务机构的队列，作为VISION教师研究员和知识核心在CISE领域的研究在各自的学校。豁免期最长为两年。研究员将通过加州大学戴维斯分校（一个新兴的西班牙裔服务机构）接受研究项目开发、教学和学习以及创新和创业方面的培训和指导。加州大学戴维斯分校通过管理研究生院的创新与创业研究所与VISION合作;教育效率中心;多样性，公平和包容办公室与研究办公室的合作;以及工程学院-计算机科学所在地。VISION将研究这种合作模式对研究员及其所在机构的研究使命的影响。调查人员希望促进对MSIs的研究和教学需求的理解，促进加速来自代表性不足群体的人参与教师队伍的创新研究和教学的社会目标，该奖项反映了NSF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。

The new generation of senior leaders at U.S. small and medium colleges and universities (SMCUs) recognizes the need to establish a science and engineering (S&E) research culture on their campuses to become more competitive for state and federal funds, to enhance the opportunities for their students, and to participate in innovation and entrepreneurship in support of the national economy. However, their institutions often lack capital and infrastructure resources required to pursue these opportunities. These leaders need a means to identify, recruit, cultivate, and retain innovative faculty to fulfill their research missions. SMCU faculty who want to perform research are often deterred by high teaching loads, in some cases as many as 5 classes per term. Change is needed, especially at minority serving institutions (MSIs) including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) which educate an increasing percentage of the population needed to meet the emerging global challenges to U.S. primacy in science and engineering innovation. With more than 58% of 965,000 S&E doctorates in non-academic positions, the investigators believe there is an opportunity to grow the faculty ranks and equip a new generation to pursue scholarly work at these critical institutions for the benefit of U.S. global competitiveness. The Visiting Innovative Scholar Research Program for Institutions Orienting to National Needs (VISION) aims to catalyze sustainable research activity at SMCUs in strategic areas of national concern by disrupting the high teaching loads that impede faculty led research and transferring key practices in teaching, research, and innovation to SMCU leaders and faculty. VISION seeks to ultimately achieve these goals by recruiting, training, placing, and supporting early and mid-career S&E doctoral degree holders to serve as visiting scholars at SMCUs. In this pilot, VISION specifically addresses the national strategic concern to accelerate U.S. research activity and to broaden participation in computing information sciences and engineering (CISE). The proposed work will establish a cohort of research-oriented, full-time, junior and senior faculty from five minority serving institutions, to serve as VISION Faculty Fellows and the intellectual core for research in CISE fields at their respective schools. Appointments will be for up to two years. Fellows will receive training and mentoring in research program development, teaching and learning, and innovation and entrepreneurship, through the University of California, Davis, an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. UC Davis collaborates with VISION through their Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Graduate School of Management; the Center for Educational Effectiveness; the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s collaboration with the Office of Research; and the College of Engineering - where Computer Science is housed. VISION will study the impact of this collaborative model on the Fellows and the research mission of their home institutions. The investigators expect to advance the understanding of the research and teaching needs of MSIs, contribute to the societal goals of accelerating the participation of persons from underrepresented groups in innovative research and teaching in the faculty ranks, and strengthen institutions that train students from underrepresented groups.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.