CC* PLANNING: RE-CONSTRUCTING THE CAMPUS CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE OF A SMALL, LIBERAL ARTS HBCU IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE STEM INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION

德克萨斯大学正在进行一项规划活动，使其能够完成对其当前基础设施的评估，以确定发展校园网络基础设施（CI）所需的元素，以更好地支持STEM研究和教育，了解并记录研究人员和学生的校园CI需求，推动未来的CI改进，并制定一个初步的校园CI计划。这项规划拨款的影响超出了德克萨斯学院对技术基础设施的仔细研究和准备路线图的需要，从而实现更先进的未来。这项活动也是提高德克萨斯学院STEM和非STEM教育质量的第一步。替代的学习方式可以通过技术来适应。有STEM知识差距的学生可以体验近乎即时的补救。文化上一致的例子可以量身定制，以反映课堂内的各种社会文化背景。飞行模拟可用于教授物理和物理科学。有了足够的网络基础设施，教学和学习的知识扩展的主要障碍就消除了。这个奖项反映了NSF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。

Texas College is undertaking a planning activity allowing it to complete an assessment of its current infrastructure, to identify the elements needed to evolve campus cyberinfrastructure (CI) to better support STEM research and education, to understand and document campus-wide CI needs of researchers and students driving future CI improvements, and to produce an initial campus CI plan.Impact of this planning grant extends beyond Texas College’s need for a carefully researched and prepared roadmap for technological infrastructure enabling a more advanced future. This activity also is an initial step toward improving the quality of the STEM and non-STEM education produced at Texas College. Alternate learning styles can be accommodated via technology. Students with STEM knowledge gaps can experience near-instant remediation. Culturally concordant examples can be tailored to reflect various sociocultural backgrounds within a classroom. Flight simulations can be used to teach Physics and Physical Sciences. With a sufficient cyberinfrastructure, major barriers are removed from the intellectual expansion in how teaching and learning occurs.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.