UNIDOS HSI Program Network Resource Center for Community Coordination

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，该中心项目旨在协调和扩大拉美裔服务机构(HSI)的工作。西班牙裔服务机构在促进历史上服务不足的学生群体在STEM教育中的参与和成功方面发挥着独特的作用。然而，通过增加基础设施、建立新的伙伴关系以及扩大HSI的成功和HSI的专业知识，个别教职员工和机构的成功可以进一步扩大。工发组织中心旨在进一步加强人类安全倡议的影响，为人类安全倡议社区成员提供相互学习和建立工作的机会，并建立新的合作伙伴关系，从而促进人类安全倡议教育的创新。此外，工发组织中心将通过提供侧重于提案制定、教学和领导力的专业学习活动，通过改进研究、教学和方案活动，培养更多的学生成功，从而影响现有的人类安全倡议教职员工和学生。该中心将由以下五个机构的专家领导：佛罗里达国际大学、巴伦西亚学院、加州州立大学、萨克拉门托州立大学、波多黎各大学-里奥皮德拉斯大学和德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校。该中心更大的领导团队还包括专业组织：西班牙裔学院和大学协会(HACU)、奇卡诺人/拉美裔美国人和美洲原住民科学促进会(SACNAS)和Excelencia in Education。工发组织中心的目标包括：1)通过组织人类安全倡议计划获奖者会议，在人类安全倡议社区成员之间建立更强的协同作用，通过技术和意向网络建立伙伴关系，并部署协作创新沙盒会议，供参与者讨论大胆的想法，从而建立联系；2)通过提案研讨会和资源、指导计划和教学方面的教师发展，通过发展社区的建议开发、领导力和教学能力，建设能力；3)通过举办与人类安全倡议社区成员的聆听会议，提高人类安全倡议的声音，召集人类安全倡议专家委员会，交流人类安全倡议的专业知识，并组成工作组，就人类安全倡议的关键主题设计工具包和资源；以及4)通过全面的沟通计划，包括部署网站、社交媒体、时事通讯和一系列研讨会，扩大机构的工作，促进沟通。此外，社交网络分析和其他外部评估将产生关于HSI社区成员如何相互联系和协作的新知识。该项目由HSI计划资助，该计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大对STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。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), this Center project aims to coordinate and amplify the work of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Hispanic Serving Institutions play a unique role in promoting the participation and success of historically underserved groups of students in STEM education. However, the successes of individual faculty, staff and institutions can be further extended through increased infrastructure, new partnerships and amplification of HSI successes and HSI expertise. The UNIDOS center aims to further strengthen the impact of HSIs by providing members of the HSI community opportunities to learn from and build on each other’s work and form new partnerships that lead to innovations in HSI education. Additionally, the UNIDOS Center will impact current HSI faculty, staff and students by providing professional learning activities focused on proposal development, teaching, and leadership designed to foster increased student success through improved research, teaching, and programmatic activities. UNIDOS is a Center for HSIs by HSIs, with a leadership team and engaged partners that represent the diversity of Hispanic-Serving Institutions and the many groups they serve.The Center will be led by experts from five institutions with established records in Hispanic/Latiné STEM student success: Florida International University; Valencia College; California State University, Sacramento; the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras; and the University of Texas at El Paso. The Center’s larger leadership team also includes professional organizations: the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and Excelencia in Education. The goals of the UNIDOS Center include: 1) Building connections by developing stronger synergies between HSI community members through organizing the HSI Program Awardee meeting, fomenting partnerships through technology and intentional networking, and deploying collaborative innovation sandbox meetings for participants to discuss bold ideas; 2) Building capacity by developing the community’s proposal development, leadership, and teaching capacity through proposal workshops and resources, a mentoring program, and faculty development on teaching; 3) Elevating HSI voices by hosting listening sessions with HSI community members, convene HSI Councils of Experts to platform HSIs’ expertise, and form Working Groups to design toolkits and resources on critical topics of HSIs; and 4) Facilitating communication by amplifying the work of HSIs through a comprehensive communication plan, including deployment of website, social media, newsletters, and a seminar series. Additionally, the social network analyses and other external evaluation will yield new knowledge on how HSI community members connect and collaborate with each other. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity 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.