HSI Conference Grant: PROMISE: Providing Resources and Opportunities for Minorities in STEM Education

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）致同事的信NSF 17-092：改善西班牙裔服务机构的本科STEM教育呼吁项目支持会议，这些会议将确定有关hsi本科科学、技术工程和数学（STEM）教育的最关键挑战和机遇，以及符合NSF使命、政策和实践的潜在可行解决方案。拉雷多社区学院（LCC）、德克萨斯农工国际大学（TAMIU）、德克萨斯农工大学金斯维尔分校（TAMUK）和德克萨斯大学二叠纪盆地分校（UTPB）响应了这一呼吁，提议召开一次会议，将两年制和四年制公立和私立德克萨斯HSI学院和大学本科STEM教育的主要利益相关者聚集在一起，以便为NSF的西班牙裔服务机构项目的设计提供信息。提议的HSI承诺：为STEM教育中的少数民族提供资源和机会会议的基本原理是基于巨大的需求和巨大的潜力，以产生有效的计划和策略的新知识，以招募，保留和毕业STEM中的西班牙裔。该会议将于2018年3月在德克萨斯州拉雷多举行，由德克萨斯州西班牙裔服务机构联盟（TxHSIC）联合这些实体。会议将召集来自83所公立和私立学院、大学、社区组织和商业实体的教师和管理人员。媒体公告和会前会议将确保至少100名来自德克萨斯州机构的与会者和至少100名虚拟与会者。HSI PROMISE会议的会议将主要关注本科STEM教育，并将提供一个网络渠道，为NSF提供输入。然而，为了从这一努力中获得更广泛的利益，学生必须被授权成为STEM创新的领导者和合作伙伴。目前在STEM学科注册的学生的声音将通过与MAES（拉丁裔工程与科学）LCC和德克萨斯州分会以及TAMIU， TAMUK和UTPB Noyce学者的现场和电话会议的焦点小组进行讨论。作为评估的一部分，来自德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校教育研究与政策中心（UTSAP）的研究人员将参加会议。为了更广泛的国家投入和影响，美国国家科学基金会资助的12所社区学院，HRD#1450661 KickStarter项目与亚利桑那州科学基金会已被邀请通过电话会议参加。会议的主要成果将是一份报告，其中将包括一份可能可行的解决方案清单，这些解决方案属于NSF的使命、政策和实践，并通过UTSA教育研究和政策中心提交一份政策简报。一个重要的成果将是德州hsi的持续合作，以确保资金和优化NSF支持的影响。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter NSF 17-092: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions called for projects to support conferences that would identify the most critical challenges and opportunities regarding undergraduate science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at HSIs, and potential actionable solutions that fall within NSF's mission, policies, and practices. Laredo Community College (LCC), Texas A & M International University (TAMIU), Texas A & M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), and University of Texas Permian Basin (UTPB) responded to the call by proposing a conference to bring together key stakeholders in undergraduate STEM education at two and four-year public and private Texas HSI colleges and universities in order to inform the design of NSF's Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program. The rationale for the proposed HSI PROMISE: Providing Resources and Opportunities for Minorities in STEM Education conference is based on the great need as well as the great potential to generate new knowledge on effective programs and strategies to recruit, to retain, and to graduate Hispanics in STEM. The conference will be held in March 2018 in Laredo, Texas, through the Texas Hispanic Serving Institutions Consortium (TxHSIC), an organization which unites such entities. The conference will convene faculty and administrators from over 83 public and private colleges, universities, community-based organizations and business entities. Media announcements and pre-conference meetings will secure at least 100 attendees from institutions in Texas and at least 100 virtual participants. Sessions at the HSI PROMISE Conference will primarily focus on undergraduate STEM Education and will provide a networked conduit to provide input to NSF. However, to reap the broader benefit of this effort, students must be empowered to become leaders and partners in STEM innovation. The voices of students currently enrolled in STEM disciplines will be included through focus groups both live and via teleconference with MAES (Latinos in Engineering and Science) LCC and Texas chapters and TAMIU, TAMUK, and UTPB Noyce Scholars. As part of the assessment, the conference will include participation from researchers from the Center for Research and Policy in Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSAP). For broader national input and impact the 12 community colleges in the NSF funded, HRD#1450661 KickStarter project with Science Foundation Arizona have been invited to participate via teleconference. A major output of the conference will be a report which will include a list of potential actionable solutions that fall within NSF's mission, policies, and practices and a policy brief through Center for Research and Policy in Education at UTSA. A major outcome will be the continued collaboration of Texas HSIs to secure funding and the optimization of impact from NSF support.