UNIDOS HSI Program Network Resource Center for Community Coordination

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该中心项目旨在协调和扩大西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的工作。拉美裔服务机构在促进历史上服务不足的学生群体参与STEM教育并取得成功方面发挥着独特的作用。然而，个别教师、员工和机构的成功可以通过增加基础设施、新的伙伴关系和扩大HSI的成功和HSI的专业知识来进一步扩大。工发组织中心的目标是进一步加强人文科学研究所的影响，为人文科学研究所社区的成员提供机会，相互学习和借鉴彼此的工作，形成新的伙伴关系，推动人文科学研究所教育的创新。此外，工发组织中心将通过提供专注于提案开发、教学和领导力的专业学习活动来影响现有的HSI教职员工和学生，这些活动旨在通过改进研究、教学和项目活动来促进学生的成功。工发组织是一个由拉美裔机构组成的拉美裔机构中心，拥有一个领导团队和参与的合作伙伴，这些合作伙伴代表了拉美裔服务机构及其所服务的众多群体的多样性。该中心将由来自五个机构的专家领导，这些机构在西班牙裔/拉丁裔STEM学生的成功方面有既定的记录：佛罗里达国际大学；瓦伦西亚大学;加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校；波多黎各大学-皮德拉斯分校；以及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：西班牙裔高校协会（HACU）、奇卡诺人/西班牙裔和美国原住民科学进步协会（SACNAS）和卓越教育协会。工发组织中心的目标包括：1)通过组织HSI项目获奖者会议，在HSI社区成员之间建立更强的协同作用，建立联系，通过技术和有意的网络建立伙伴关系，并部署协作创新沙盒会议，供参与者讨论大胆的想法；2)通过提案研讨会和资源、指导计划和教师教学发展，通过发展社区提案开发、领导和教学能力来建设能力；3)通过举办与HSI社区成员的聆听会议来提升HSI的声音，召集HSI专家委员会来平台HSI的专业知识，并成立工作组来设计HSI关键主题的工具包和资源；4)通过一个全面的传播计划，包括部署网站、社交媒体、通讯和系列研讨会，通过扩大hsi的工作来促进传播。此外，社会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。本项目由科学与技术研究所资助，旨在加强科学与技术研究所的本科教育，扩大科学与技术研究所的参与，并加强科学与技术研究所的能力建设。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), 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.