NSF IGE Innovation Acceleration Hub

研究生教育创新（IGE）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆，新的和潜在的变革性方法来进行STEM研究生教育培训。成功的IGE项目试点，测试和验证创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。创新加速中心的目标是通过促进NSF IGE项目获奖者之间关于研究活动和成果的交流，并为外部利益相关者的参与提供一个强大的平台，来加速STEM研究生教育的创新。研究生院理事会（CGS）将在五年内设计、开发、评估并不断改进一个在线微型网站和全面的沟通策略，以促进IGE获奖者和更广泛的STEM研究生教育社区之间的学习和合作。CGS将利用其作为一个拥有500多个硕士和博士机构成员的组织的作用，扩大对受资助的IGE项目成果的认识，并为潜在的获奖者提供IGE项目机会。在枢纽通信和外联战略的特别重点是放在增加的数量和质量的建议，从历史上的黑人学院或大学（HBCU），少数民族服务机构（MSI），和其他机构服务的代表性不足的人口。CGS将促进不同利益相关者的网络，通过共同有可能改善STEM研究生课程的活动，对研究生教育创新进行对话，这些活动是制度化的，系统的和变革性的。活动范围将包括调查和焦点小组研究、网站开发、讲习班、研究论坛和其他会议。CGS收集的数据，并从理论框架（包括自我效能，集体影响和文化历史活动理论）的角度进行分析，将为持续改进提供信息。研究结果还将有助于了解这种基于“枢纽”的方法如何加速循证实践的广泛采用和制度化，并推动广泛机构的创新，特别是STEM研究生教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. Successful IGE projects pilot, test, and validate innovative and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education. The program supports testing of novel models or activities with high potential to enrich and extend the knowledge base on effective graduate education approaches.The goal of the Innovation Acceleration Hub is to accelerate innovation in STEM graduate education by facilitating communications about research activities and outcomes among awardees of the NSF IGE program and providing a robust platform for external stakeholder engagement. Over a five-year period, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will design, develop, evaluate, and continuously improve an online microsite and comprehensive communication strategy that will foster learning and collaboration among IGE awardees and the broader STEM graduate education community. CGS will leverage its role as an organization with over 500 master’s and doctoral institution members to broaden awareness of outcomes from funded IGE projects and of IGE program opportunities for prospective awardees. Particular emphasis in the Hub communications and outreach strategy is placed on increasing the number and quality of proposals from historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and other institutions serving underrepresented populations. CGS will foster networks of diverse stakeholders in dialogue about research on innovations in graduate education through activities that collectively have the potential to result in improvements to STEM graduate programs that are institutionalized, systemic, and transformative. The range of activities will include survey and focus group research, website development, workshops, research forums, and other convenings. Data collected by CGS and analyzed from a perspective informed by theoretical frameworks including self-efficacy, collective impact, and cultural-historical activity theories will inform continuous improvement. Results will also contribute to knowledge about how such a "Hub"-based approach can accelerate broader adoption and institutionalization of evidence-based practices and drive innovation across a wide range of institutions, generally, and in STEM graduate education specifically.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.