A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance in the National Science Foundation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Undergraduate Program

该奖项使少数民族优质教育(QEM)网络能够为HBCU的教职员工提供7个讲习班。该系列包括为这些从未得到HBCU-UP支持的少数族裔服务机构的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师举办的提案制定研讨会。系列研讨会的重点是提高当前HBCU-UP资助机构的STEM和/或教育教师的能力，以准备针对NSF的HBCU-UP计划的竞争性扩大参与研究(BPR)和研究启动奖(RIA)提案。拟议的项目召集了受资助机构的STEM初级教员，讨论对STEM本科生进行有效的指导和培训，使其成为研究助理。这些工作坊旨在帮助确保从HBCU院校毕业的拥有STEM学科学位的学生为成功攻读STEM研究生课程或过渡到STEM工作队伍做好充分准备。这些工作坊将有至少250名来自HBCU的不同STEM教师参加，并为院校继续并成功地获得对各自校园内STEM和STEM教育活动的更多支持奠定坚实的基础。加强参加讲习班系列的少数群体服务机构的STEM学科课程，提高了这些机构的STEM毕业生的数量和质量。这反过来又使HBCU能够提高和扩大他们对国家-S科技劳动力的质量和生产力的贡献。

This award enables the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network to offer 7 workshops for faculty at HBCUs. The series includes proposal development workshops for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty at these minority-serving institutions that have never received HBCU-UP support. Workshops in the series focuses on enhancing the ability of STEM and/or Education faculty at current HBCU-UP grantee institutions to prepare competitive Broadening Participation Research (BPR) and Research Initiation Awards (RIA) proposals to NSF's HBCU-UP program. The proposed project convenes STEM junior faculty from grantee institutions to discuss effective mentoring and training of STEM undergraduates as research assistants. These workshops are designed to help ensure that students who graduate from HBCU institutions with degrees in STEM disciplines are well-prepared to successfully pursue STEM graduate study or to transition into the STEM workforce.The workshops will involve a minimum of 250 different STEM faculty from HBCUs and provide a strong foundation for institutions to pursue and successfully receive increased support for STEM and STEM education activities on their respective campuses. Strengthening STEM disciplinary offerings at minority-serving institutions represented in the workshop series increases the number and quality of preparation of STEM graduates from these institutions. This, in turn, positions HBCUs to enhance and expand their contribution to the quality and productivity of the Nation?s STEM workforce.