Virtual Workshops on the Response of Higher Education to COVID-19

该项目将有助于国家对强大的STEM劳动力，有弹性的STEM研究企业以及了解科学和技术的公众的需求。为此，该奖项将支持一系列公开的在线研讨会，探讨COVID-19大流行对高等教育的影响，包括本科生和研究生学习，STEM教学和STEM研究企业。它们还将确定应对这一流行病的潜在最佳做法，从而为更广泛的国家对话提供一个起点。 科学教育委员会和国家科学院高等教育和劳动力委员会将召开研讨会，重点是利益攸关方之间分享挑战和应对措施。 这些对话将阐明最大挑战的领域，包括不成比例地影响某些学生，教师或机构类型的挑战领域。随着国家应对COVID-19的直接影响，这些研讨会将提供一个机会，加深对美国高等教育系统在备灾方面的弹性的理解，为所有学生和教师提供访问和住宿的能力，以及这一公共卫生事件对研究企业的涟漪反应。讲习班将为各机构提供一个机会，分享在大流行病最初几个月的战略和经验教训。通过为各类机构提供一个论坛，使它们能够聚集在一起相互学习，讲习班将使各机构能够实时修改其战略，从而对全国各地的校园产生直接影响。此外，讲习班将研究机构的反应如何根据学生和教师的背景（种族/民族、性别、社会经济地位）、年龄、残疾状况和生活中的其他因素对他们产生不同的影响。 这些见解可以帮助机构检查对自己的校园的影响，并调整他们的反应，以更好地服务于他们所服务的教育和研究社区的所有成员。 该奖项由NSF的本科教育部和研究生教育部共同资助。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进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national needs for a strong STEM workforce, resilient STEM research enterprise, and a public that understands science and technology. To this end, the award will support a series of public, online workshops that will explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, including undergraduate and graduate studies, STEM teaching, and the STEM research enterprise. They will also identify potential best practices for responding to the pandemic, thus providing a starting point for broader national conversations. The Board on Science Education and the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the National Academy of Sciences will convene the workshops, which will focus on sharing of challenges and responses among stakeholders. These conversations will illuminate the areas of greatest challenge, including challenge areas that disproportionately affect certain populations of students, faculty, or types of institutions. As the nation addresses the immediate impacts of COVID-19, these workshops will provide an opportunity to deepen understanding of the resiliency of the postsecondary education system in the U.S. in terms of disaster preparedness, the ability to provide access and accommodation for all students and faculty, and the ripple effects of this public health event on the research enterprise. The workshops will provide an opportunity for institutions to share strategies and lessons learned in the early months of the pandemic. By providing a forum for institutions of all types to come together and learn from each other, the workshops will make it possible for institutions to modify their strategies in real-time and, thus, can have an immediate impact on campuses across the country. Furthermore, the workshops will examine how institutions’ responses might have differential effects on students and faculty depending on their backgrounds (race/ethnicity, gender, SES), age, disability status and other factors in their lives. These insights can help institutions examine the impacts on their own campuses and adapt their responses to better serve all members of the educational and research communities they serve. This award is co-funded by the NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education and the Division of Graduate Education.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.