NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Increasing the Representation of Minorities in Engineering (IRME)

NSF INCLUDES 规划拨款：增加少数族裔在工程领域的代表性 (IRME) 这项 NSF INCLUDES 规划拨款由 NSF Inclusion across the NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) 资助，这是一项全面的国家举措，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大 STEM 的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该规划拨款的目标是通过规划一个机构联盟来满足发展多样化和公平的工程能力劳动力的迫切需要，该联盟将扩大黑人、西班牙裔和其他代表性不足的群体在高等教育工程项目中的参与和成功。这项集体影响力工作由摩根州立大学领导，建立在包括杰克逊州立大学、北卡罗来纳州立农业技术大学和 Ziker Research 在内的现有合作伙伴关系的基础上。在强大的骨干组织 GlobalMindED 的推动下，IRME 项目将为 NSF INCLUDES 联盟制定共同愿景，该联盟将促进工程职业的发展，并扩大代表性不足的学生对工程的参与； IRME 项目将通过参与催化活动，为扩大参与研究领域贡献关键知识，这些活动包括：1）综合扩大参与努力和工程教育最佳实践的趋势； 2) 通过实施在线研讨会来制作基于证据的简报，该研讨会旨在倾听和捕捉寻求雇用工程毕业生的学生、教师、管理人员和行业合作伙伴的声音和观点； 3）制定强有力的研究议程，研究影响历史上在工程领域代表性不足的群体成功的社会、政治和学术因素。将确定促进公平、持久和有效实践的策略，并通过 NSF INCLUDES 协调中心以及相关工程会议与 NSF INCLUDES 国家网络共享。 IRME 项目有潜力带来系统性变革，通过让相关利益相关者参与多部门合作，通过发展 NSF INCLUDES 联盟来增加工程中的少数群体代表性，从而扩大工程领域的参与。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Increasing the Representation of Minorities inEngineering (IRME)This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to address the urgent need for the development of a diverse and equitable engineering-capable workforce by planning for an alliance of institutions that will broaden the participation and success of Black, Hispanic, and other underrepresented groups in higher education engineering programs. This collective impact effort, led by Morgan State University, builds on an existing partnership that includes Jackson State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and Ziker Research. Propelled by the momentum of a strong backbone organization, GlobalMindED, the IRME project will develop a shared vision for an NSF INCLUDES alliance that will catalyze access to engineering careers and broaden the participation of underrepresented students in engineering; and crystalize partnerships between a consortium of engineering programs at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), nonprofit organizations, and industry.The IRME project will contribute critical knowledge to the field of broadening participation research by engaging in catalytic activities that include: 1) synthesizing trends in broadening participation efforts and best practices in engineering education; 2) producing an evidence-based brief developed through the implementation of an online workshop designed for listening to and capturing the voices and perspectives of students, faculty, administrators, and industry partners seeking to hire engineering graduates; and 3) developing a robust research agenda that will examine the social, political, and academic factors that influence the success of groups historically underrepresented in engineering. Strategies for promoting equity, persistence, and effective practices will be identified and shared with the NSF INCLUDES National Network through the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, as well as at relevant engineering conferences. The IRME project has the potential to bring about systemic change that will broaden participation in engineering by engaging relevant stakeholders in a multi-sector collaboration to increase minority representation in engineering through the development of an NSF INCLUDES Alliance.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.