Expanding the NORDP Consultants Program to Sixteen Minority Serving Institutions

NSF促进国家变革性公平和多样性的研究机会(GRAND)倡议旨在支持研究支持和服务基础设施的发展，以解决获得和管理外部资金的复杂性，特别是在新兴的研究和少数群体服务机构(ERI和MSI)。这个由国家研究发展专业人员组织(NORDP)发起的项目扩展了之前与历史上的黑人学院和大学合作的成功努力，并侧重于提供基础研究开发资源。研究开发是指促进研究的战略性、催化性和能力建设活动。该项目测试了如何通过向MSI提供研究开发服务来增强美国国家研究生态系统的多样性。在这个项目中，NORDP顾问计划将向四个新的四个MSI队列中的16个少数群体服务机构提供支持。每所学校将在两年内获得经验丰富的NORDP顾问600小时的咨询时间，并在项目期间获得一系列其他研究开发支持。该计划还将通过群组社区建设活动和参加年度全国会议，促进选定机构之间的网络创建。包括形成性和总结性评价活动，以评估该方法的有效性。该项目代表了一种创新的、新颖的、具有潜在变革性的模式，展示了专业社会如何与ERIS和MSI合作，以提供更公平的资源获取机会，从而提高研究能力和竞争力，最终加强国家的研究企业。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。

The NSF Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) Initiative seeks to support the development of the research support and service infrastructure to address the complexity of securing and managing external funding, particularly at emerging research and minority serving institutions (ERIs and MSIs). This project from the National Organization of Research Development Professional (NORDP) expands on prior successful efforts working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and focuses on providing fundamental research development resources. Research development refers to strategic, catalytic, and capacity-building activities that advance research. This project tests how the diversity of the U.S. national research ecosystem can be enhanced by providing research development services to MSIs. In this project, the NORDP Consultants Program will extend support to 16 minority serving institutions across four new cohorts of four MSIs each. Each school will receive 600 hours of consulting time from experienced NORDP Consultants over two years and gain access to an array of other research development supports for the duration of the project period. The program will also promote network creation among the institutions selected, through cohort community building events and participation in an annual national conference. Formative and summative evaluation activities are included to assess the effectiveness of the approach. The project represents an innovative, novel, and potentially transformative model of how professional societies can work with ERIs and MSIs, to provide more equitable access to resources that will increase research capacity and competitiveness, ultimately strengthening the nation’s research enterprise.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.