Build and Broaden: Bridging Critical Research Collaborations for Faculty Success in Texas MSIs

德克萨斯州的少数族裔服务机构（MSI）比除加州以外的任何一个州都多。该州紧迫的优先事项模仿了许多国家层面的优先事项，例如需要在科学事业的各个层面上增加包容性。虽然美国国家科学基金会（NSF）已经确定了许多有效的策略来揭开拨款过程的神秘面纱，但msi的资助率仍然落后于其他有色人种学生较少的机构，包括社会、行为和经济（SBE）科学。反过来，这意味着MSI学生参与研究或获得尖端科学技术的机会更少，而这些经验可以增加职业道路和高等教育的选择。这笔拨款为德州的MSI教师提供了三次小型会议，重点是有色人种教师、女性教师和职业中期教师的参与。这些小型会议将由前NSF工作人员和其他教职员工发表演讲，他们带来了导航不同职业道路的专业知识，包括在管理学院。通过这些活动，管理学院的教师将更多地了解NSF资助提案和研究合作，并将有机会获得现场指导和合作机会。会议组织者还计划收集这些机构中参与SBE科学的教师职业道路的调查数据，以便更好地了解如何支持研究能力，特别是合作能力。因此，msi的更多教师将分享对NSF提案和该地区SBE研究人员的理解。德州高等教育协调委员会（Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board）的数据显示，德州对SBE研究和资金的更多关注将推进SBE学科的基础知识，突出SBE研究在该州的价值，该州大约90%的资金来自非SBE学科。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。

The state of Texas has more minority-serving institutions (MSI) than any state other than California. The state's pressing priorities mimic many at the national level, such as a need for greater inclusion at all levels of the scientific enterprise. While the National Science Foundation (NSF) has identified many effective strategies to demystify the grants process, funding rates at MSIs still lag behind other institutions with fewer students of color, including in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences. In turn, this means MSI students have fewer opportunities to participate in research or to acquire cutting edge scientific techniques, the kinds of experiences that increase options for career paths and advanced education. This grant funds three mini-conferences for MSI faculty in Texas, with a focus on participation by faculty of color, women faculty, and mid-career faculty. The mini-conferences will feature presentations by former NSF staff and other faculty who bring expertise in navigating different career pathways, including at MSIs. Through the events, faculty at MSIs will learn more about NSF grant proposals and research collaborations and will have access to on-site mentorship and collaboration opportunities. The conference organizers also plan to collect survey data on the career pathways of participating faculty in the SBE sciences at these institutions, with an eye towards better understanding how to support research capacity, especially for collaborations. As a result, a larger pool of faculty at MSIs will share an understanding of NSF proposals and fellow SBE researchers in the region. Increased attention to SBE research and funding in the state of Texas will advance fundamental knowledge in the SBE disciplines, highlighting the value of SBE research in a state which receives roughly 90% of its funding in the non-SBE disciplines, according to figures from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.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.