HBCU-UP Collaborative for the Advancement of STEM Leadership

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP）已将以证据为基础的领导力和教师的专业发展确定为其优先事项之一，并致力于资助创新模式，以增强对阻碍我们扩大STEM参与能力的障碍和因素的理解。在美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的支持下，促进STEM领导力合作组织（CASL）旨在通过有针对性地关注领导力，扩大代表性不足的少数民族对STEM的参与。这个合作项目包含了一个更广泛的立场，即创造关于领导和扩大参与之间关系的新知识，并将这些知识转化为可以通过国家实践社区传播的机构实践。最初，协作计划的影响将局限于部分hbcu，但由于其广泛影响主流STEM改革社区，这些努力最终将影响所有类型的机构，并解决日益增长的对高质量领导的需求，以扩大STEM的参与。因此，在hbcu和非hbcu校园就读的数万名未被充分代表的少数族裔STEM学生，将体验到最有利于他们学习和坚持STEM专业的学术环境。CASL的目标是建立领导研究和实践的基本原则，以扩大STEM的参与。协作将通过以下方式实现这一使命：1)研究活动，有助于增加领导力发展的知识基础，以扩大STEM的参与；2)知识翻译活动，将使用基于证据的领导力发展方法，以增加具有文化响应能力和能力的HBCU领导者的数量；3)拓展活动，发展一个全国性的实践社区，以定义、编纂和颁布设计原则和实践，以扩大参与，从而提高hbcu在STEM高等教育改革中心的知名度/影响力。协作的分布式结构有助于集成发现分析框架的发展和可持续性，该框架服务于两个主要目的：1)它提供了健壮性和灵活性，以促进探索性和新兴的探究线，直接解决有关领导与扩大STEM参与之间关系的研究问题；2)通过支持在项目持续期间出现的新见解和研究问题集成到协作的持续活动中，它促进了迭代和动态的方法，反之亦然。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) has identified evidence-based leadership and professional development of faculty as one of its priorities and is committed to funding innovative models to enhance the understanding of the barriers that hinder and factors that enhance our ability to broaden participation in STEM. With support from the National Science Foundation, the Collaborative for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) aims to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM through a targeted focus on leadership. This collaborative project embraces a more expanded position of creating new knowledge about the relationship between leadership and broadening participation, and transferring that knowledge into institutional practices that can be promulgated through a national community of practice. Initially, the impact of the Collaborative will be among select HBCUs, but, because of its broad reach into mainstream STEM reform communities, these efforts will eventually impact all institutional types and address the growing need for quality leadership for broadening participation in STEM. As a result, tens of thousands of underrepresented minority STEM students, enrolled at both HBCUs and non-HBCU campuses, will experience the kind of academic environments that are most conducive to their learning and persisting as STEM majors.The goal of CASL is to establish the foundational tenets of the research and practice of leadership for broadening participation in STEM. The Collaborative will achieve this mission through: 1) research activities that will contribute to an increased knowledge base on leadership development for broadening participation in STEM; 2) knowledge translation activities that will use an evidence-based approach to leadership development to increase the number of HBCU leaders with culturally responsive competencies and capacities; and 3) outreach activities that will develop a national Community of Practice to define, codify, and promulgate design principles and practices for broadening participation and thereby increase the visibility/influence of HBCUs at the center of STEM higher education reform. The distributed structure of the Collaborative lends itself to the development and sustainability of an integrated discovery analytical framework that serves two primary purposes: 1) it provides robustness and flexibility in facilitating exploratory and emergent lines of inquiry that directly address research questions about the relationship between leadership and broadening participation in STEM; and 2) it facilitates an iterative and dynamic approach by supporting the integration of new insights and research questions that emerge over the project's duration into the Collaborative's ongoing activities, and vice versa.