A Knowledge Management Resource Center for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Undergraduate Program

历史黑人学院和大学-本科项目(HBCU-UP)致力于提高历史黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的本科STEM教育和研究质量，以扩大全国STEM劳动力的参与。因此，HBCU-UP支持美国学院和大学协会的项目，该项目旨在开发和部署一个知识管理资源中心。25年来，HBCU-UP在建设和支持HBCU的人力和结构能力方面一直是全国的典范，以扩大小学生在STEM中的参与。然而，传播该项目吸取的经验教训的努力因无数背景和微妙的挑战而变得复杂。HBCU-UP知识管理资源中心(KMRC)旨在通过1)获取HBCU-UP利益相关者社区不断扩大的参与知识，2)在不牺牲意义的情况下将这些知识转移到主流本科生STEM改革社区，以及3)定位HBCU-UP利益相关者社区以获得更多知识，以缓解这些挑战。具体地说，KMRC将利用文化响应、价值观参与的方法来评估NSF HBCU-UP奖项组合，需要定性内容分析策略和重要的定量测试来确定整个HBCU-UP奖项组合的有效性。通过整合文化历史活动理论(CHAT)，这是一个基于系统思维的评估性研究框架，KMRC将不仅对HBCU-UP扩大参与干预措施的效果，而且对谁，以及在什么情况下效果最好，提供更深入的理解。总体而言，KMRC的工作有可能建立一个众所周知和被接受的指标的基础，这些指标是HBCU社区认可的，并且在文化和背景上适合评估、解释和适应HBCU-UP奖项组合日益扩大的参与影响。最终，这为策划、传播和转移HBCU在扩大参与方面的尖端创新创造了一个智力空间，面向来自所有机构类型的STEM改革者的全国受众。通过确保HBCU扩大参与知识库在HBCU社区内外都为人所知和了解，我们的国家议程--多元化、经过竞争培训和受过高等教育的STEM劳动力--得到了动员和加快。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) is committed to enhancing the quality of undergraduate STEM education and research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in order to broaden participation in the nation's STEM workforce. Accordingly, HBCU-UP supports the project from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which seeks to develop and deploy a Knowledge Management Resource Center. For 25 years, HBCU-UP has served as a national exemplar in building and supporting the human and structural capacity of HBCUs to broaden the participation of minoritized students in STEM. However, efforts to disseminate the program’s lessons learned are complicated by a myriad of contextual and nuanced challenges. The HBCU-UP Knowledge Management Resource Center (KMRC) aims to mitigate these challenges by 1) capturing the broadening participation knowledge of the HBCU-UP stakeholder community, 2) transferring that knowledge to mainstreamed undergraduate STEM reform communities without sacrificing meaning, and 3) positioning the HBCU-UP stakeholder community to gain more knowledge. Specifically, the KMRC will utilize a culturally responsive, values-engaged approach to assess the NSF HBCU-UP award portfolio, requiring both qualitative content analysis strategies and quantitative tests of significance to determine the effectiveness of the overall HBCU-UP award portfolio. By integrating Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), an evaluative research framework based in systems thinking, the KMRC will offer a deeper understanding of not only what about HBCU-UP broadening participation interventions works, but for whom, and under what circumstances they work best. Overall, the work of the KMRC has the potential to establish a foundation of commonly known and accepted metrics that are HBCU community-sanctioned and culturally and contextually appropriate for assessing, interpreting, and adapting the broadening participation impact the HBCU-UP award portfolio. Ultimately, this creates an intellectual space for curating, disseminating, and transferring the cutting-edge innovations in broadening participation occurring at HBCUs to a national audience of STEM reformers from all institution types. By ensuring that the HBCU broadening participation knowledge base is known and understood both within and outside of the HBCU community, our national agenda for a diverse, competitively trained, and liberally educated STEM workforce is mobilized and accelerated.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.