Workshop on Fostering Competitive Social Science Research Among Faculty of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Atlanta, GA, October 2003

本项目旨在实施一项计划，以促进传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）教师的社会科学研究提案的设计和资助。资助的主要活动包括：1)举办研讨会，向HBCU教师介绍资助机会；2)提供实际的资助写作经验；3)为HBCU教师提供完善和扩展初步研究项目的策略建议；4)协助HBCU教师修改和提交资助提案；5)在提案制定和提交过程中及之后建立导师关系。研讨会的目标是为hbcu的教职员工提供指导、资源和支持，以激发更多的教职员工研究和应用政策工作的申请资助活动。这里提出的方法指出了指导和跟踪教师发展项目的重要性。因此，本提案将注意力集中在一组有研究项目想法的HBCU教师身上，这些研究项目将在为期一年的时间内开发，从2003年秋季在亚特兰大斯佩尔曼学院举行的研讨会开始，将HBCU教师与经验丰富的研究员导师进行匹配，建立一个时间表和程序，以便HBCU教师在2003/2004学年向导师发送他们的研究提案草稿并接收反馈（通过电子邮件和电话）进行修改。在2004年初夏举行第二次后续研讨会，届时教师将提出建议，初步或试点项目的发现，并对彼此的工作进行批评，并在2004年秋季提交申请资助的建议。这里提出的过程不仅仅是在开始的研讨会上提供关于现有资助来源的信息（这本身很重要），而且还扩展了一个计划，以培养有前途的研究前景的教师的提案写作技巧。该项目将为学院和大学的教师提供提案制定和提交方面的培训，这些教师在美国基础社会科学研究领域的代表性传统上和目前仍然不足。如果该项目成功地使教师更多地参与基础研究，那么大学、教师和学生将获得巨大的利益，其形式是增加资源、开展研究的机会和学术奖学金。此外，更加强调提案写作和研究拨款将有助于创建研究文化，并为社会和行为科学的基础研究建立基础设施。学生还将受益于亲身研究经验，这已被证明可以增加学生进入研究生院的可能性。

This project is to implement a program to facilitate the design and funding of social science research proposals by faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The main activities to be funded include 1) conducting a workshop to inform HBCU faculty about funding opportunities, 2) providing actual grant writing experience, 3) advising HBCU faculty in strategies for refining and expanding preliminary research projects into fully developed proposals, 4) assisting HBCU faculty in the revision and submission of proposals for funding, and 5) establishing mentor relationships during and after the proposal development and submission process. The goal of the workshop is to provide guidance, resources, and support to faculty members at HBCUs to stimulate greater grant-seeking activity for faculty research and applied policy work. The approach proposed here notes the importance of mentoring and follow up in faculty development projects. Thus, this proposal focuses attention on a group of HBCU faculty with ideas for research projects that will be developed during a one-year period beginning with a workshop to be held in the fall, 2003, at Spelman College in Atlanta, matching HBCU faculty with experienced researcher mentors, establishing a timetable and procedure for HBCU faculty to send mentors drafts of their research proposals and receive feedback for revision (via email and telephone) during the 2003/2004 academic year, holding a second follow-up workshop in the early summer, 2004 where faculty would present proposals, preliminary or pilot project findings, and critique one another's work, and concluding with the submission of proposals for funding in the fall 2004. The process proposed here goes beyond providing mere information about existing grant sources (which is itself important) at the beginning workshop, and extends a plan for developing the proposal writing skills of faculty who have promising research prospects. The project will provide training in proposal development and submission to faculty at colleges and universities that have traditionally been and currently remain underrepresented in the nation's basic social science research enterprise. If the project is successful in getting faculty more involved in basic research, tremendous benefits will accrue to the university, faculty and students in the form of increased resources, opportunity to conduct research, and academic scholarship. Additionally, a greater emphasis on proposal writing and research grantsmanship will help to create a research culture and build infrastructure for basic research in the social and behavioral sciences. Students will also benefit in the form of hands on research experiences, which has been shown to increase the probability that a student will attend graduate school.