Supporting A Virtual Community of Practice for Broadening Participation Knowledge Transfer

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科课程（HBCU-UP）致力于提高历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的本科STEM教育和研究质量，以扩大国家STEM劳动力的参与。 因此，HBCU-UP支持美国学院和大学协会（AAC U）的项目，该项目支持虚拟实践社区，以扩大参与知识转移。 该项目将（1）通过基于证据的身份发展，有意专注于培养NSF HBCU-UP主要研究者（PI）的内在思维领导力，他们处于扩大参与成功的最前沿; 2）使用一种新的知识转移框架，重新想象并适应生物医学研究的“从实验室到床边”的知识转化过程，以适应新的背景，用于本科STEM改革;以及3）为所述目的设计和升级虚拟平台STEM Central。 这一及时项目的目标不仅仅是为HBCU-UP PI开发一个知识生成平台。 它还扩大了他们的能力，以传播有关扩大参与整个STEM高等教育改革社区的研究。在此过程中，AAC& U将协调，整合和展示整个NSF HBCU-UP投资，作为产生文化知情的研究想法，观点和合作的一种手段，可以更深入地了解扩大参与，以及实现和维持它所需的内容。因此，该项目将，（i）为HBCU STEM教师设计，开发和发展一个强大的知识转移平台;（ii）利用知识转移平台，促进HBCU知识的转移，并以独特的方式了解如何扩大整个STEM高等教育改革社区的参与;（iii）通过社会网络分析测试知识转移平台的有效性。 该项目解决了专门为HBCU-UP PI量身定制的虚拟专业发展机会的需求，同时为他们提供了一个独特的平台，以缩小不断扩大的参与知识差距，从而丰富STEM教育改革社区。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) is committed to enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education and research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in order to broaden participation in the nation's STEM workforce. Accordingly, HBCU-UP supports the project from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) that undergirds a virtual community of practice for broadening participation knowledge transfer. The project will (1) deliberately focus on cultivating the innate thought leadership of NSF HBCU-UP principal investigators (PIs), who are at the forefront of broadening participation success, through evidence-based identity development; 2) use a novel knowledge transfer framework that re-imagines and adapts the “bench to bedside” knowledge translation processes of biomedical research to a new context, for undergraduate STEM reform; and 3) design and upgrade the virtual platform, STEM Central, for the stated purposes. The goal of this timely project goes beyond developing a knowledge-generating platform for, and by, HBCU-UP PIs. It also expands their capacity to disseminate research about broadening participation to the entire STEM higher education reform community. In doing so, AAC&U will coordinate, integrate, and showcase the entire NSF HBCU-UP investment as a means of generating the kind of culturally informed research ideas, perspectives, and collaborations that can create a deeper understanding of broadening participation, and what is needed to achieve and sustain it. As such, the project will, (i) design, develop, and grow a robust knowledge-transfer platform, for and by HBCU STEM faculty; (ii) use a knowledge-transfer platform to facilitate the transfer of HBCU knowledge and unique ways of knowing about broadening participation to the entire STEM higher education reform community; (iii) test the capacity of the knowledge-transfer platform for effectiveness through social network analysis. The project addresses the need for virtual professional development opportunities that are specifically tailored for HBCU-UP PIs, while providing a unique platform for them to narrow the broadening participation knowledge gap, thereby enriching the STEM education reform community.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.