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：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，该会议项目旨在为拉美裔服务机构(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的改善本科STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构补助金方面。拉美裔学院和大学协会(HACU)将通过在HACU 2023年年会上主办一个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成功获得NSF拨款的资源不足的HSI。STEM的创新有赖于国家科学工作者的各种观点。然而，HSIS的许多教职员工在为研究和学生编程制定有竞争力的资金提案方面缺乏实践经验。为了增加HSI参与NSF资助的机会，拟建的研究所将系统地培训HSI人员撰写具有竞争力和以证据为基础的建议书。这些研究所预计将有来自50所或更多机构的多达100名参与者参加首届活动。拟建的研究所将提供几个动手编写提案的会议，由来自HSIS的专家领导。学员将学习在学院期间和结束后，在专家导师的指导下，构思一个引人注目的项目并撰写具有说服力的提案的最佳做法。将对试点研究所进行评估，结果将通过电子邮件和社交媒体向HACU成员发布公告，并将导致在随后的HACU会议上提供的年度研究能力建设研究所的制度化。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。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。

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.