Conference: Building an HSI Grantee Community of Inclusive Excellence

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），首席调查员（PI）会议将汇集当前和潜在的首席调查员团队，参与活动和对话，以促进有效的策略，以改善西班牙裔服务机构的本科STEM教育，并建立和维护PI社区。目前，美国有100多家机构参与了国家科学基金会HSI的资助奖励，这次会议将为PI团队提供机会，让他们见面并分享资助的目标、目标、最佳实践、成功以及挑战。会议将于2023年在德克萨斯州以既定的欢迎形式提供一个为期2.5天的参与场所。将有来自该领域专家的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，以增加合作并建立一个研究人员社区。可能的形式包括小组会议和海报展示。圣爱德华兹大学与TX HSI联盟合作，提议支持首席研究员（pi）会议，为当前的NSF pi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西班牙裔服务机构联盟会议形式的既定势头，以创建一个积极影响西班牙裔STEM教育的pi社区。评估计划将包括前后调查，以衡量每次会议的有效性。会议的一个主要产出将是最终报告，该报告将与所有与会者和机构方案主任共享，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。一个重要的成果将是德州hsi与全美hsi的持续合作。来自美国公立和私立、两年制和四年制院校的100多个NSF PI团队以及其他潜在的受资助者将参加此次会议。这次会议将通过德克萨斯州的视角，扩大对美国少数族裔和STEM的认识。德克萨斯州是美国人口第二多的州，也是美国高等教育中西班牙裔学生入学率第二高的州。这两组STEM教育工作者有潜力通过nsf资助的努力和为数百万西班牙裔学生提供新知识来提高STEM教学法的成功率。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目还将产生新的知识，以提高HSI在STEM领域攻读副学士学位或学士学位的学生的招聘、保留和毕业率。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.