Planning: Strategic Planning Workshop for the CSU Desert Studies Center

沙漠研究中心（DSC）是位于莫哈韦沙漠的住宅野外站，由加州州立大学系统运营。该设施支持研究和教育活动，该地点提供了独特的丰富的生物地质特征，对科学领域的研究有价值。在过去的48年里，在加州州立大学系统的支持下，DSC为大学和扩展课程，研讨会和会议提供了出色的服务。目前，DSC每年支持数千次过夜访问，尽管大多数用户访问是出于教育目的。DSC在支持研究方面具有巨大的未开发潜力。该项目支持为沙漠研究中心制定一项五年战略计划，以促进研究基础设施的发展和促进机构的可持续性。DSC战略计划的制定将在2024年初在沙漠研究中心召开的为期1.5天的研讨会上得到通报。讲习班将由一名具有机构规划经验的外部评价人员独立制定和实施。本次讲习班的参加者将包括DSC工作人员、来自伙伴机构和组织的区域利益相关者、现有和潜在用户以及实地站研究和业务专家。在研讨会开始前几周，所有受邀者都将收到一份详细的调查报告，该报告将指导研讨会的发展和规划工作，在研讨会结束后，参与者将被要求提供有关过程的反馈和其他信息，以支持战略计划的发展。讲习班结束后，在评估人员的支持下，规划工作指导委员会将制定正式的战略计划。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 Desert Studies Center (DSC) is a residential field station located in the Mojave Desert operated by the California State University system. This facility supports research and education activities in a location that offers a unique wealth of living organisms geological features that are valuable for scientific field research. Over the past 48 years under the support of the California State University system, the DSC has ably served university and extension courses, workshops, and conferences. Currently the DSC supports several thousand overnight visits per year, though most users are visiting for educational purposes. The DSC has tremendous untapped potential for supporting research. This project supports the development of a five-year strategic plan for the Desert Studies Center to foster the development of research infrastructure and promote institutional sustainability.The development of the strategic plan for the DSC will be informed by a 1.5-day workshop to be convened early in 2024 at the Desert Studies Center. The workshop will be independently developed and implemented by an external evaluator who is experienced with institutional planning. Participants in this workshop will include DSC staff, regional stakeholders from partner agencies and organizations, current and potential users, and experts in field station research and operations. Several weeks before the workshop, all invitees will receive a detailed survey that will guide the development of the workshop and the planning effort, and after the workshop finishes, participants will be asked to provide feedback on the process and additional information to support the development of the strategic plan. After the workshop, with support of the evaluator, the steering committee of the planning effort will develop the formal strategic plan.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.