Conference: CLASP: broadening participation and deepening its community of practice

文理学院赞助项目实践社区（CLASP）是一个免费开放的资源，目前代表了全国330多所主要的本科院校，特别是那些符合“文理学院”框架（PUI LACs）的院校。CLASP将举行一系列会议，以提高其满足受资助的研究专业人员需求的能力，这些专业人员往往是PUI LAC机构中唯一的此类专业人员。在这些会议上，赞助的研究专业人员将：制定战略，在各种不同的机构中建立研究管理的能力和有效性；建立协议，改善与那些为科学领域代表性不足的大量学生提供服务的机构的联系和支持；并建立代表和倡导新兴研究机构子集的研究贡献的程序。与卡尔顿学院的科学教育资源中心（SERC）合作，研究团队将调查并召集CLASP会员，包括虚拟和面对面的，以：1)开发工具和可扩展的模型，促进在“文理学院”框架（PUI LACs）内主要本科院校的研究；2)扩大实践社区的参与，以支持少数群体服务机构等组织的需求；3)减少获取外部资助者信息的系统性障碍。这些发现将为如何在各种规模和类型的PUI lac中增加伙伴关系、知识共享和加强研究管理人员之间的沟通提供早期见解。 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。

The Colleges of Liberal Arts Sponsored Programs Community of Practice (CLASP) is a free and open resource that currently represents more than 330 predominantly undergraduate institutions, particularly institutions that fit within the “liberal arts college” framework (PUI LACs) across the nation. CLASP will hold a series of convenings to improve its ability to meet the needs of sponsored research professionals, often the only such professional at PUI LAC institutions. At these convenings sponsored research professionals will: develop strategies for building the capacity and effectiveness of research administration across a diverse range of institutions; build protocols that improve outreach to, and support for, institutions that serve significant numbers of students underrepresented in the sciences; and create procedures for representing and advocating for the research contributions of this subset of Emerging Research Institutions. In partnership with the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College, the research team will survey and convene the CLASP membership, both virtually and in person, to: 1) develop tools and scalable models advancing research at predominantly undergraduate institutions that fit within the “liberal arts college” framework (PUI LACs); 2) broaden participation within this Community of Practice to support the needs of organizations such as minority-serving institutions, and 3) reduce systemic barriers to accessing information about and from external funders. These findings will provide early insight into how to increase partnership, knowledge sharing, and enhance communication between research administrators at PUI LACs of all sizes and types. 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.