Conference: Building an HSI Grantee Community of Inclusive Excellence

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，首席调查人员会议(PI)将把现有的和潜在的主要调查人员团队聚集在一起，参与活动和对话，以促进有效的战略，以改善拉美裔服务机构的本科生STEM教育，并建立和维护一个PI社区。目前，全美有100多家机构参与了国家科学基金会HSI资助奖，这次会议将为PI团队提供机会，让他们共同分享资助金的目标、目的、最佳实践、成功和挑战。会议将在既定的欢迎形式下为2023年在德克萨斯州举行的为期2.5天的活动提供一个场所。该领域的专家将举行3-5次全体会议，以增加对成功战略的了解。将安排正式和非正式的网络会议，以加强合作并建立研究人员社区。这些活动的可能形式将包括小组会议和海报演示。圣爱德华兹大学与德克萨斯州HSI联盟合作，提议支持一次首席调查员会议，为当前的NSF PIs提供召集、学习、分享和加强他们工作的机会。会议将受益于德克萨斯州拉美裔服务机构联盟会议形式的既定势头，以创建一个旨在对拉美裔STEM教育产生积极影响的PI社区。评价计划将包括事前和事后调查，以衡量每届会议的成效。会议的一项主要成果将是最后报告，将与所有与会者和机构方案主任分享，以便改进今后的会议。这份报告将包括从调查和会议中收集到的成功和挑战。一个主要成果将是德克萨斯州HIS与全美HIS继续合作。来自美国公立和私立、两年制和四年制院校以及其他潜在受赠者的100多支NSF PI团队将参加会议。这次会议将通过德克萨斯州这个人口第二多的州的视角，扩大对美国少数族裔和STEM的了解。德克萨斯州的拉美裔学生在美国高等教育中的入学率位居第二。这两组STEM教育工作者一起，有可能通过NSF资助的努力和为数百万拉美裔学生提供新知识来提高STEM教育学的成功。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目还将产生关于如何提高在HSI攻读STEM专科或学士学位的学生的招生、留住和毕业率的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program) the Principal Investigators’(PI) conference will bring together current and potential Principal Investigator teams to engage in activities and conversations to promote effective strategies to improve undergraduate STEM education at Hispanic Serving Institutions and to build and maintain a PI community. Presently there are over 100 institutions throughout the United States involved in National Science Foundation HSI grant awards and this conference will provide the opportunity for PI teams to meet and to share grants’ goals, objectives, best practices, successes as well as challenges. The conference will provide a venue within an established welcoming format for 2.5 days of engagement in Texas in 2023. There will be 3-5 plenary sessions from experts in the field to increase knowledge on successful strategies. Formal and informal networking sessions will be scheduled to increase cooperation and to build a community of researchers. Possible formats for these will involve group sessions and poster presentations. In collaboration with the TX HSI Consortium, St. Edwards University proposes to support a Principal Investigator (PIs) meeting to provide current NSF PIs the opportunity to convene, learn, share and enhance their work. The conference will benefit from the established momentum of the Texas Hispanic Serving Institutions Consortium conference format to create a community of PIs motivated to make a positive impact on Hispanic STEM education. The evaluation plan will include pre and post-surveys to gauge the effectiveness of each of the sessions. A major output of the conference will be the final report which will be shared with all participants and with agency program directors in order to improve future meetings. This report will include successes as well as challenges gathered from surveys and sessions. A major outcome will be the continued collaboration of Texas HSIs with HSIs across the United States. Over 100 NSF PI teams from public and private, two- and four-year institutions from the US as well as other potential grantees will attend the conference. The conference will expand knowledge on minorities and STEM in the U.S. through the lens of Texas the second most populous state and has the second-highest enrollments of Hispanic students in post-secondary education in the country. Together both groups of STEM educators have the potential to improve STEM pedagogy success with NSF-funded efforts and new knowledge for millions of Hispanic students. 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 increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate’s or baccalaureate degrees in STEM at HSIs.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.