MCA: Mid-Career Advancement - Using STEM Interest Profiling to Build a STEM ecosystems for underrepresented students.

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科课程通过跨董事会中期职业发展招标NSF 21-516支持科学家和工程师在副教授职级（或同等学历），以实质性地加强和推进他们的研究计划，通过协同和互利的伙伴关系，通常是在一个机构比他们的家乡机构。该项目的总体目标是加强和推进主要研究者（PI）的研究议程，通过建立一个互利的指导伙伴关系，旨在解决科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的兴趣和态度在弗吉尼亚州的三城地区（彼得堡，霍普韦尔和殖民高地）减少通过建立一个STEM生态系统。通过（重新）投资于职业中期的研究人员，NSF的目标是在高学术级别上建立和发展一支更加多样化的科学队伍，他们仍然参与并积极参与前沿研究。（潜在轮廓分析）和社会网络分析，调查中学年龄STEM的努力; 2）使用资产映射来识别三城地区的潜在STEM合作者和利益相关者，他们有兴趣并致力于创建一个全面而强大的学习生态系统，以及3）基于三个变量评估生态系统的健康和有效性：生产力，耐久性和弹性。这些开创性的方法将使PI和合作者能够考虑服务不足的中学生群体之间的差异;并将允许研究人员检查STEM合作者和生态系统中利益相关者之间的质量和关系，并进行微调，以提高其有效性和可持续性。该项目将通过推进对STEM扫盲、公平、包容和获取方面的国家关切的了解，扩大生态系统方法的概念，并将作为其他研究人员的典范，以了解STEM概况分析在为创建、实施、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用评估的支持。基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program through cross-directorate Mid-Career Advancement solicitation NSF 21-516 supports scientists and engineers at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution. The overall goal of this project is to enhance and advance the research agenda of the principal investigator (PI) through a mutually beneficial mentoring partnership that seeks to address the decrease in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) interest and attitudes of youth in the Tri-City area of Virginia (Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights) by building a STEM ecosystem. By (re)-investing in mid-career investigators, NSF aims to enable and grow a more diverse scientific workforce at high academic ranks, who remain engaged and active in cutting-edge research.The objectives of the project are to: 1) apply cutting edge profiling analyses (Latent Profile Analysis) and Social Network Analysis, to investigate middle school age STEM efforts; 2) use asset mapping to identify potential STEM collaborators and stakeholders in the Tri City area, interested in, and committed to creating a comprehensive and robust learning ecosystem, and 3) assess the ecosystem’s health and effectiveness based on three variables: Productivity, Durability, and Resilience. These groundbreaking methodologies will enable the PI and collaborators to consider variability among groups of underserved middle school-aged youth; and will allow the investigator to examine the qualities in, and relationships between STEM collaborators and stakeholders in an ecosystem, and to fine-tune these in order to improve its efficacy and sustainability. This project will expand the notion of ecosystem approaches by advancing knowledge about national concerns regarding STEM literacy, equity, inclusion, and access, and will serve as a model to other researchers seeking to understand the role that STEM profiling can play in informing the creation, implementation, and sustainability of equitable STEM ecosystems.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.