Advanced Workshop on Improving the Quality of Proposals from Minority Serving Institutions

规模较小的大学，包括历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），少数民族服务机构（MSI），西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）和美国印第安人服务工程机构（AISEI）往往缺乏为高度竞争和至关重要的STEM教育研究准备教师所需的资源。因此，许多教师在试图获得资金以研究和实施新的教育理念时受到阻碍。此外，这使得这些机构难以采用现代教学法和新的STEM教育理念。最终，受害的是学生，因为他们可能无法从最新的STEM教育发现中获益。该项目正在帮助关键学校发展他们的STEM教师，使他们能够更好地与规模更大，资源更丰富的机构竞争。更强大的STEM教师将转化为更强大的大学和更多更强大的STEM毕业生。该项目建立在以前的研究，并结合以前成功的教师发展活动。这项工作还得到了一个精英小组的大学院长的通知，他们为项目设计提供了投入。目前正在由一名外部评估员对成果进行评估，并将广泛传播。

Smaller universities including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) and American Indian Serving Engineering Institutions (AISEI) often lack resources required to prepare faculty for highly competitive and critically important STEM education research. As a result, many of the faculty are handicapped when they attempt to acquire funding to investigate and implement new educational ideas. Furthermore, this makes the adoption of modern pedagogy and new STEM education ideas difficult at these institutions. Ultimately, it is the students who suffer because they may not receive the benefits of the newest STEM education discoveries. This project is assisting critical schools to develop their STEM faculty so they are better able to compete with larger, resource richer institutions. Stronger STEM faculty will translate to stronger universities and to more and stronger STEM graduates. The project builds on prior research and incorporates previously successful faculty development activities. The work is also informed by an elite group of university deans who provided input to the project design. Outcomes are being assessed using an external evaluator and will be widely disseminated.