Broadening Participation Research Center: Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership

扩大参与研究中心：STEM 领导力促进中心

• 批准号: 2309126
• 负责人: Kelly Mack
• 金额: $ 169.21万
• 依托单位: Association of American Colleges and Universities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Research; Center; Advancement

Broadening Participation Research Centers provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to conduct broadening participation research and serve as national hubs for the rigorous study and broad dissemination of the critical theories, structures and pedagogies, as well as culturally sensitive interventions that contribute to the success of HBCUs in educating African American STEM undergraduates. In an effort to address the national priority to prepare sufficient numbers of its citizens to fill STEM workforce needs, HBCU administrative and faculty leaders are seeking to make strategic decisions that will position their institutions, as well as the Nation, for continued broadening participation success. The HBCU historical record demonstrates the importance of a nurturing academic environment, high expectations, and access to role models to increase the participation of African Americans in STEM. However, closer examination reveals the significant role of HBCU leaders, at various organizational levels, in creating the conditions for achieving these outcomes. Today’s HBCU leaders are not only expected to create these ideal institutional conditions, but to do so while navigating realities that are often ambiguous, volatile, and complex. This reality is exacerbated by three factors: 1) the scarcity of knowledge about how HBCU leaders have advanced broadening participation; 2) limited adoption of HBCU broadening participation processes into mainstream undergraduate STEM reform outlets; and 3) a proliferation of ineffective leadership development efforts that do not serve today’s HBCU STEM leaders. To this end, the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) will leverage its research findings and innovations to empower STEM leaders for increased broadening participation success and meaningfully informing mainstream STEM higher education reform to create institutional conditions necessary to broaden participation.Designed to be the Nation's premier research center examining and determining the kind of academic leadership that broadens the participation of African Americans and other underrepresented groups in STEM, the University of the Virgin Islands, in collaboration with its institutional/organizational partners – North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University, Fielding Graduate University, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities – has designed a unique approach to broadening participation research. Specifically, CASL’s strategic approach engages the power of established theoretical frameworks, considers the complex cultural and institutional contexts of HBCUs grounded in African American heritage, and examines how HBCU STEM leaders navigate their institutions to achieve successful broadening participation outcomes. Undergirding the Center’s collective research, education, and knowledge transfer/outreach agendas is the systems model of creativity, which offers a lens for gaining deeper insights into the creative processes that HBCU leaders of various types and levels have and continue to use to broaden participation. Guided by principles of andragogy, Socratic questioning, and the theoretical foundations of knowledge transfer science, these insights will be integrated into and promulgated throughout the entire undergraduate STEM reform community. A robust external evaluation will monitor and assess progress on all objectives, providing both formative and summative assessment of all Center activities.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.

扩大参与研究中心为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）提供了支持，以进行扩大参与研究，并充当国家枢纽，以进行严格的研究和广泛传播批判理论，结构和教学法，以及文化敏感的干预措施，以及对非洲人在教育非裔美国人造成教育不足的人教育中的成功。为了解决国家优先事项，以准备兼容的公民以满足STEM劳动力需求，HBCU行政和教师领导人正在寻求做出战略决策，以将其机构和国家定位为继续扩大参与成功。 HBCU历史记录表明，培育学术环境，高期望以及获得榜样的重要性，以增加非洲裔美国人的参与。但是，仔细检查揭示了HBCU领导者在各种组织层面上的重要作用，在创造了实现这些结果的条件下。当今的HBCU领导者不仅期望创造这些理想的制度条件，而且还可以在浏览通常模棱两可，动荡和复杂的现实时这样做。三个因素加剧了这一现实：1）关于HBCU领导者如何提高参与的知识的稀缺； 2）有限地采用HBCU扩大参与过程到主流本科改革渠道中； 3）无效的领导力发展努力的激增，这些努力无法为当今的HBCU STEM领导者服务。为此，STEM领导力（CASL）的进步中心将利用其研究结果和创新来授权STEM领导者增加扩大参与的成功，并有意义地告知参与的主流STEM高等教育改革，以创建所必需的机构条件，以扩大参与的制度条件。为拓宽参与的机构，是国家的首要研究中心和在非洲的领导者中的领导者，并确定非洲裔人士和其他人的领导地位，这些人属于其他人，是该官员的其他人，这些人属于其他人，是该官员的其他成员，这些人属于其他人，是该官员的其他成员，该组织的属于其他人的属于人物，这是该组织的其他成员。维尔京群岛与机构/组织合作伙伴合作 - 北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学，菲尔丁研究生大学和美国大学和大学协会 - 设计了一种独特的方法来扩大参与研究。具体而言，CASL的战略方法具有建立理论框架的力量，考虑了基于非裔美国人遗产的HBCU的复杂文化和制度环境，并研究了HBCU STEM领导者如何导航其机构以实现成功扩大参与成果的成功。为该中心的集体研究，教育和知识转移/推广议程提供了探讨，这是创造力的系统模型，它为您提供了更深入地了解各种类型和层次的HBCU领导者所拥有的，并继续用于扩大参与的创作过程。在Andragogy，Socratic质疑和知识转移科学的理论基础的指导下，这些见解将在整个本科STEM改革社区中融入并颁布。强大的外部评估将在所有目标上监控和评估进展，从而提供对所有中心活动的形成性和总结性评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为通过评估而被认为是宝贵的支持。