Improving the Quality of NSF Proposals from Accredited Engineering and Computer Science Programs of Minority Serving Colleges and Universities

该项目正在支持两个研讨会，旨在帮助少数民族服务机构（MSIs）的工程和计算机科学教师发展提案写作技能，以便他们能够更有效地竞争NSF计划的支持。 对于第一个研讨会，这将是在介绍性的水平，在选定的MSI院长被要求提名多达三名教师和55名参与者正在从这些提名的基础上，应用程序概述了计划的建议。 为期两天的研讨会将讨论提案撰写策略以及如何处理更广泛的影响和项目评估。 第二次讲习班将在高级层次上举办，项目小组邀请参加去年介绍性讲习班或提交了未成功的CCLI提案的人申请。 45名参与者是根据申请中对拟议项目的描述挑选的。 为期两天的研讨会将介绍有关编写有效和令人信服的目标、预期成果、理由以及实施、传播和评估计划的材料。 该项目是在以往成功努力的基础上制定的，目前正在通过监测参加者在讲习班后的提案撰写活动对其进行评估。

The project is supporting two workshops intended to help engineering and computer science faculty at minority serving institutions (MSIs) develop proposal writing skills so that they can compete more effectively for support from NSF programs. For the first workshop, which will be presented at an introductory level, the deans at selected MSIs are being asked to nominate up to three faculty members and the 55 participants are being selected from these nominations based on an application outlining a planned proposal. The two-day workshop will discuss proposal writing strategies and how to deal with broader impact and project evaluation. For the second workshop, which will be presented at an advanced level, the project team is inviting those who attended last year's introductory workshop or submitted an unsuccessful CCLI proposal to apply. The 45 participants are being selected based on the description of a proposed project in the application. The two-day workshop is presenting material on writing effective and convincing goals, expected outcomes, rationale, and implementation, dissemination, and evaluation plans. The project is based on prior successful efforts and it is being evaluated by monitoring the participants' proposal writing activity after the workshop.