“Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) conference

– 波多黎各高等教育研究人员协会，繁荣而不仅仅是生存 (HEARTS) 会议

• 批准号: 2218973
• 负责人: Kelly Mack
• 金额: $ 3.43万
• 依托单位: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2218973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Puerto; Rican; Higher; Education; Researchers

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to support faculty in Puerto Rico so that they can impact the retention and graduation rates of Hispanic students through implementing best practices and improving faculty wellness, resulting in improved student/faculty engagement and faculty grant-writing skills. Puerto Rican faculty are in urgent need of physical, emotional, pedagogical, and financial support so that they can refresh, rejuvenate, and adapt to transition from surviving to thriving in this pandemic-fueled “new normal.” The Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) Conference will provide this support for faculty to heal, learn, share and grow to better support Hispanic STEM students and the HSIs of Puerto Rico. The conference will bring together faculty in higher education research programs from across the island. The conference will address topics of wellness, grant-writing support, best practices for virtual and/or hybrid learning (especially in STEM) and culturally competent pedagogy. These four topics, combined into one event, will offer holistic support for the faculty that are on the frontlines of the implementation of education research programming that seeks to improve outcomes for Hispanic students in STEM and broadly in higher education in Puerto Rico. Faculty will be better equipped to meet the challenges of this “new normal” if they are supported by each other, focused on their own wellness, trained for writing competitive grants, and trained in best practices for hybrid and/or virtual STEM instruction in a culturally supportive environment to promote the success of Hispanic STEM students.The design and analysis of this mixed-methods evaluative research study are based on Kezar’s (2013) framework of organizational learning through “sensemaking.” The project will help faculty “make sense” of their value and how they require personal wellness and stronger communities to be effective. Participants in the conference will learn about successful capacity-building efforts of other STEM faculty and administrators which resulted in student success. The conference will address the topics of (1) faculty wellness, (2) creating communities through sustained dialogues, (3) grant-writing, and (4) culturally responsive pedagogies. The main goals are to (1) equip HSI faculty from PR to meet the challenges of today’s “new normal” by focusing on their own wellness; (2) create a sustained dialogue on the importance of collaboration among HSIs in Puerto Rico and in the US; (3) empower faculty to use best practices for Hispanic students to promote the success and (4) receive training for competitive grant-writing (to secure funds to support their work). The conference activities will generate evidence of faculty improved faculty wellbeing, sense of belonging, self-efficacy in grant-writing, and implementation of best practices in the classroom to support STEM students. This evidence will be used to seek additional funding to support yearly iterations of the conference with the long-term goal of forming a self-sustaining education research association on the island that will foster long-term excellence in higher education research for HSIs in Puerto Rico as well as collaborations with the US mainland to promote education research that builds capacity for student success. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在“改善本科 STEM 教育：西班牙裔服务机构”（HSI 计划）的支持下，本次会议旨在支持波多黎各的教师，以便他们能够通过实施最佳实践和改善教师健康来影响西班牙裔学生的保留率和毕业率，从而提高学生/教师的参与度和教师拨款写作技能。波多黎各教职员工迫切需要身体、情感、教学和财政支持，以便他们能够在这场大流行引发的“新常态”中焕然一新、恢复活力并适应从生存到繁荣的转变。波多黎各高等教育研究人员协会的“繁荣而不仅仅是生存”(HEARTS) 会议将为教师提供治愈、学习、分享和成长的支持，以更好地支持西班牙裔 STEM 学生和波多黎各的 HSI。这次会议将汇集全岛高等教育研究项目的教师。会议将讨论健康、资助写作支持、虚拟和/或混合学习（尤其是 STEM）的最佳实践以及文化能力教育学等主题。这四个主题合并为一项活动，将为处于教育研究计划实施前沿的教师提供全面支持，该计划旨在改善波多黎各西班牙裔学生在 STEM 和广泛高等教育领域的成果。如果教师相互支持，关注自身健康，接受撰写竞争性资助的培训，并接受文化支持环境中混合和/或虚拟 STEM 教学最佳实践的培训，以促进西班牙裔 STEM 学生的成功，那么他们将更有能力应对这一“新常态”的挑战。这项混合方法评估研究的设计和分析基于 Kezar（2013）的组织学习框架，通过 “意义建构”。该项目将帮助教师“理解”他们的价值，以及他们如何需要个人健康和更强大的社区才能发挥作用。会议参与者将了解其他 STEM 教师和管理人员在能力建设方面所做的成功努力，从而使学生取得了成功。会议将讨论以下主题：(1) 教师健康，(2) 通过持续对话创建社区，(3) 拨款写作，以及 (4) 文化响应式教学法。主要目标是 (1) 使 HSI 公共关系教师能够关注自身健康，应对当今“新常态”的挑战； (2) 就波多黎各和美国的 HSI 之间合作的重要性开展持续对话； (3) 授权教师利用西班牙裔学生的最佳实践来促进成功，(4) 接受竞争性资助写作培训（以确保资金支持他们的工作）。会议活动将证明教师改善了教师的福祉、归属感、拨款写作的自我效能，以及在课堂上实施最佳实践来支持 STEM 学生。这些证据将用于寻求额外的资金来支持每年举行的会议，其长期目标是在岛上建立一个自我维持的教育研究协会，这将促进波多黎各 HSI 高等教育研究的长期卓越性，并与美国大陆合作，促进教育研究，培养学生成功的能力。 HSI 计划旨在加强本科生 STEM 教育并建设 HSI 的能力。 HSI 计划支持的项目还将产生有关如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。