Conference: Piloting a HSI Research Capacity Building Institute at the Annual Meeting of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，该会议项目旨在为西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的教职员工和管理人员提供培训和技术支持，以提高他们的提案开发技能，特别是在申请国家科学基金会改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构补助金时。拉美裔学院和大学协会（HACU）将通过在HACU 2023年年会上举办为期一天的研究所来实现这一目标，目标是那些从未提交或未能获得NSF资助的资源不足的hsi。STEM领域的创新取决于国家科学工作者的观点多样性。然而，许多hsi的教师和从业人员缺乏为研究和学生规划制定有竞争力的资助提案的实践经验。为了增加HSI参与NSF资助的机会，拟议的研究所将系统地培训HSI人员撰写有竞争力和基于证据的提案。预计将有50多个研究所的100多名代表参加此次活动。拟议的研究所将提供几次由hsi专家领导的动手提案开发和写作会议。学员将在培训期间和培训结束后，在专家导师的指导下，学习构思一个引人注目的项目和撰写一份有说服力的提案的最佳实践。将对试点机构进行评估，结果将通过电子邮件和社交媒体向HACU成员发布公告，并将在随后的HACU会议上提供年度研究能力建设机构。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Conference project aims to provide training and technical support to faculty, staff, and administrators from Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to improve their proposal development skills, particularly in applying for the National Science Foundation's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions grants. The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) will accomplish this by hosting a day-long institute at the HACU 2023 annual conference, targeting under-resourced HSIs that have never submitted or have been unsuccessful with NSF grants. Innovation in STEM depends on a diversity of perspectives in the national scientific workforce. However, many faculty and practitioners at HSIs lack practical experience in developing competitive funding proposals for research and student programming. To increase participation in NSF funding opportunities by HSIs, the proposed institute will systematically train HSI personnel to write a competitive and evidence-based proposal. The institutes expects up to one hundred participants from fifty or more institutions to attend the inaugural event.The proposed institute will provide several hands-on proposal development and writing sessions, led by experts from HSIs. Participants will learn best practices for conceptualizing a compelling project and writing a persuasive proposal, guided by expert mentors during and after the institute. The pilot institute will be evaluated and results will be disseminated in announcements to HACU members through email and social media, and will lead to the institutionalization of an annual research capacity building institute that is offered at subsequent HACU meetings. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.