Broadening Participation Research: Focus on Tribal Colleges

组织者将为NSF-TCUP PI和PD召开2013年领导人论坛。 TCUP领导人将合作制定战略，以加强其项目，包括强调研究能力建设。在为期两天的研讨会上，与会者将沉浸在正式会议期间，他们将分享和探索创新的最佳实践，以STEM研究，教学和评估的主题下“扩大参与研究：关注部落学院。“此外，与会者将讨论劳动力的挑战，机遇，以及TCUP对部落社区的经济影响。智力优势：拟议的研讨会是部落学院的一个关键资源，试图建立研究能力，并增加美国印第安学生入学人数，并完成STEM学位。自2001年以来，NSF-TCUP项目一直有助于部落学院发展和提供更多STEM教学和学生支持的能力。一些部落学院正在成为研究机构，更多的部落学院将在不久的将来提供研究机会。研讨会的组织者与TCUP教师，学生和管理人员有着丰富的经验。 研讨会的议程将与同行委员会协商确定，并将包括独立或与邻近学院和大学（包括其他TCUP机构）合作开展研究的战略。 更广泛的影响：2013年领导人论坛将通过使部落学院意识到其选民和更大的研究界的潜在利益，为部落学院的知识做出贡献。来自部落学院的研究有可能为扩大对美洲印第安人及其家园的了解做出贡献，其长期影响将是针对部落的研究和为美国劳动力培养高素质的美洲印第安人研究人员。具有可实现和可衡量成果的成功项目将有助于将部落学院提升到下一个机构效率水平，并更多地参与美国高等教育。

The organizers will convene a 2013 Leaders' Forum for NSF-TCUP PIs and PDs. TCUP leaders will collaboratively develop strategies to enhance their projects to include an emphasis on research capacity-building. During the two-day workshop, participants will immerse in formal sessions during which they will share and explore innovative best practices to STEM research, instruction, and evaluation under the theme "Broadening Participation Research: Focus on Tribal Colleges." In addition, participants will discuss workforce challenges, opportunities, and the economic impact of TCUP on the tribal communities served.Intellectual Merit :The proposed workshop is a critical resource for tribal colleges that are attempting to build research capacity and to increase the number of American Indian students enrolling in, and completing, STEM degrees. NSF-TCUP projects have been instrumental to tribal colleges' capacity to develop and offer increased STEM instruction and student support since 2001. Some tribal colleges are emerging as research institutions, with many more positioned to offer opportunities for research in the near future. The workshop organizers have extensive experience with TCUP faculty, students, and administrators. The workshop agenda will be finalized in consultation with a peer committee, and will include strategies for conducting research independently or in collaboration with neighboring colleges and universities, including other TCUP institutions. Broader Impacts :The 2013 Leaders' Forum will contribute to the knowledge of tribal colleges by making them aware of the potential benefits to their constituents and to the larger research community. Research originating from tribal colleges has the potential to make contributions to expand knowledge about American Indians and their homelands.The long-term impact will be tribe specific research and the development of highly qualified American Indian researchers for the US workforce. Successful projects with achievable and measurable outcomes will help move tribal colleges to the next level of institutional effectiveness and toward greater participation in American Higher Education.