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

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科课程（HBCU-UP）致力于提高历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的本科STEM教育和研究质量，以扩大国家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知识管理资源中心。25年来，HBCU-UP一直是建立和支持HBCUs的人力和结构能力的国家典范，以扩大少数民族学生在STEM中的参与。然而，传播该计划经验教训的努力因无数背景和细微差别的挑战而变得复杂。HBCU-UP知识管理资源中心（KMRC）旨在通过以下方式缓解这些挑战：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化的本科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。具体而言，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性的定量测试，以确定整体HBCU-UP奖项组合的有效性。通过整合文化历史活动理论（CHAT），一个基于系统思维的评价性研究框架，KMRC将提供更深入的了解，不仅是什么关于HBCU-UP扩大参与干预工作，但对谁，在什么情况下，他们最好的工作。总体而言，KMRC的工作有可能建立一个众所周知和公认的指标基础，这些指标是HBCU社区认可的，在文化和背景上适合评估，解释和调整HBCU-UP奖项组合的广泛参与影响。最终，这创造了一个知识空间，用于策划，传播和转移在HBCU发生的扩大参与的前沿创新，以来自所有机构类型的STEM改革者的全国观众。通过确保HBCU扩大参与知识基础在HBCU社区内外都被知晓和理解，我们的国家议程是动员和加速多样化，竞争性培训，自由教育的STEM劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得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来支持。

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.