Conference: Learning to Build Authentic Partnerships Between Minority Serving Institutions and Predominately White Institutions

平等获得科学探究和STEM职业是国家科学基金会和整个国家的重要目标。 然而，少数民族学生参与科学事业的比例与他们在总人口中的比例不相称。 一个障碍是少数民族服务机构的科学家与主要是白色人的机构的科学家之间缺乏联系。 这种脱节导致了一个自我延续的循环，主要是PWI毕业生进入学术界和工业界的最高层，依赖于信任网络，有利于研究合作等领域的精英机构。 一个可能的解决方案是建立新的基于教师的网络，在MSIs和PWIs之间的相互信任和交流中蓬勃发展。 本次研讨会将召集一组来自MSIs和PWIs的教师，开始关于如何建立这样一个网络的对话。为期两天的研讨会将于2018年6月25日至26日在加州大学欧文分校举行，约有40名教师参加（20名来自医疗保险机构，20名来自残疾人福利机构）开展了一系列活动，以促进发展各类机构之间的伙伴关系，并开始规划阶段，编写支持伙伴关系的提案。 教师们将相互见面，参与关于模式伙伴关系的讨论，并制定可用于提交给私人基金会和国家资助机构的赠款提案的想法。 将通过调查对讲习班进行评估，以衡量社交网络因会议而发生的变化，并对会议上建立的伙伴关系采取后续行动，以确定它们是否导致提交或发放赠款。 讲习班的讨论将被汇总，以制定一份关于发展MSI-PWI网络的最佳做法的政策文件，该文件将通过张贴在加州尔湾大学教学部网站上公开分发，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估，被认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Equal access to scientific inquiry and STEM careers is an important goal for the National Science Foundation and for the nation as a whole. However, minority students are not participating in the scientific enterprise in proportion to their representation within the general population. One barrier is the lack of connections between scientists at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and at primarily white institutions (PWIs). This disconnect leads to a self-perpetuating cycle of primarily PWI graduates entering the highest ranks of academia and industry, relying on networks of trust that favor elite institutions in areas such as research collaborations. One possible solution is to build new faculty-based networks that thrive on mutual trust and exchange between MSIs and PWIs. This workshop will convene a group of faculty from MSIs and PWIs to begin a conversation about how to develop such a network.The two-day workshop, to be held June 25-26, 2018 at the University of California, Irvine, will engage approximately 40 faculty members (20 from MSIs and 20 from PWIs) in a series of exercises to facilitate the development of partnerships across institutional types, and to begin the planning stages for writing proposals to support the partnerships. Faculty will meet each other, engage in discussion about model partnerships, and formulate ideas that could be used for grant proposals to be submitted to private foundations and national funding agencies. Workshop assessment will be conducted using surveys to measure how social networks have changed because of the meeting, and to follow up with partnerships established at the meeting to determine if they led to the submission or awarding of grants. Workshop discussions will be aggregated to develop a policy paper on best practices in developing MSI-PWI networks, which will be circulated publicly via posting on the University of California, Irvine website for the Division of Teaching and Learning, and by public presentation at relevant conferences and regional meetings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.