A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance and Biology Network to Increase Competitiveness of HBCUs in the Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education Program

提供技术援助和生物网络以提高 HBCU 在本科生物教育项目研究协调网络中的竞争力的提案

• 批准号: 2130168
• 负责人: Mercy Mugo
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2130168&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Proposal; Provide; Technical; Assistance; Biology

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network is requesting one year of support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) Program to provide a workshop that will lead to increased awareness of the RCN-UBE program, enable the development of successful RCN-UBE network proposals, and ultimately lead to significant professional development of researchers and educators from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide. The main purpose of this work is to nurture HBCU researchers’ proposal development skills to cultivate a competitive pool of proposals to the RCN-UBE Program. To achieve this goal, QEM proposes to meet the following objectives: Conduct a two-day proposal development workshop in September of 2021 for 40 faculty who are interested in submitting successful RCN-UBE proposals in the 2022 awards cycle; Develop an RCN-UBE community of practice that will include a listserv and website that interfaces with social media, which will be used as an information sharing and collaboration network for HBCUs that are developing proposals; Provide additional guidance to participants through a series of post-workshop, consultant-led, individualized sessions to encourage participant submission of an RCN-UBE proposal by the January 2022 deadline; and Disseminate the results of workshop and post-workshop activities to the greater minority-serving community. Increasing RCN-UBE awards at MSIs will assist them with capacity building, developing and sustaining student enrolment and matriculation in the biological sciences, and diversify science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers contributing to America's global competitiveness. This project is being funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure as part of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.

少数民族优质教育（QEM）网络要求国家科学基金会（NSF）的本科生物学教育研究协调网络（RCN-UBE）计划提供一年的支持，以提供一个研讨会，提高对RCN-UBE计划的认识，使成功的RCN-UBE网络提案的发展，并最终导致全国历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的研究人员和教育工作者的重大专业发展。这项工作的主要目的是培养HBCU研究人员的提案开发技能，以培养一个有竞争力的提案池RCN-UBE计划。为了实现这一目标，QEM建议达到以下目标：在2021年9月为40名有兴趣在2022年奖励周期提交成功的RCN-UBE提案的教师举办为期两天的提案开发研讨会;建立一个RCN-UBE实践社区，其中将包括一个与社会媒体接口的列表服务器和网站，该网络将用作正在制定提案的HBCU的信息共享和协作网络;通过一系列研讨会后、顾问主导的、个性化的会议，以鼓励参与者在2022年1月的截止日期前提交RCN-UBE提案;并向更大的少数群体服务社区传播研讨会和研讨会后活动的结果。增加MSIs的RCN-UBE奖将帮助他们进行能力建设，发展和维持生物科学的学生入学率和入学率，并使科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业多样化，为美国的全球竞争力做出贡献。 该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（http：//visionandchange/finalreport/）。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。