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。西班牙裔服务机构在促进STEM教育中历史上服务不足的学生群体的参与和成功方面发挥着独特的作用。然而，个别教师，工作人员和机构的成功可以通过增加基础设施，新的伙伴关系和HSI的成功和HSI专业知识的放大进一步扩展。UNIDOS中心旨在进一步加强HSI的影响，为HSI社区成员提供机会，相互学习和借鉴，并形成新的伙伴关系，从而实现HSI教育的创新。此外，UNIDOS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当前的HSI教职员工和学生，旨在通过改进研究，教学和计划活动来促进学生的成功。UNIDOS是一个由HSIs组成的HSIs中心，拥有一个领导团队和参与的合作伙伴，代表了西班牙裔服务机构的多样性以及他们所服务的许多群体。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STEM学生的成功方面有着既定的记录：佛罗里达国际大学;瓦伦西亚学院;加州州立大学，萨克拉门托;波多黎各大学-里奥皮德拉斯;和德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校该中心的较大的领导团队还包括专业组织：学院和大学的西班牙裔协会（HACU），在科学（SACNAS）和卓越教育的奇卡诺斯/西班牙裔和美洲原住民的进步社会。UNIDOS中心的目标包括：1）通过组织HSI计划获奖者会议，促进HSI社区成员之间的协同作用，建立联系，通过技术和有意网络建立伙伴关系，并为参与者部署协作创新沙箱会议，以讨论大胆的想法; 2）通过发展社区的提案开发，领导能力和教学能力，通过提案研讨会和资源，辅导计划，3）通过与HSI社区成员举办倾听会议来提升HSI的声音，召集HSI专家委员会以平台HSI的专业知识，并成立工作组以设计HSI关键主题的工具包和资源;和4）通过全面的沟通计划（包括部署网站、社交媒体、时事通讯和系列研讨会）扩大HSI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合作的新知识。 该项目由HSI计划资助，旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，并建立HSI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.