Collaborative Research: Florida-Caribbean Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数群体(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。路易·斯托克斯扩大参与地区英才中心(LSRCEs)旨在为拓展、知识创造和传播活动或其他有助于STEM教育成功实践的活动提供区域试验台。圣达菲学院是一所两年制院校，维尔京群岛大学(UVI)是一所历史悠久的黑人大学(HBCU)，它将在未来三年与哥伦比亚大学和斯坦福大学斯坦福干预实验室合作，实施佛罗里达-加勒比路易斯·斯托克斯地区扩大参与英才中心(FL-C LSRCE)的活动。来自几个LSAMP项目的管理人员和教职员工，包括佛罗里达-佐治亚州以及波多黎各大学和阿拉巴马州联盟，将作为研究的实施者参与实践活动，并担任该中心的顾问。FL-C LSRCE将通过开发、测试和传播干预做法，以减少刻板印象威胁的影响，并在面对学业挑战时增强成长心态，提高来自传统上代表性较低的少数族裔学生在STEM的成功。中心的活动将包括：(1)主办一次关于心理社会干预的年度会议，向教师提供以研究型STEM为重点的干预措施，并就教师反馈和互动对学生成功的重要性进行培训；(2)利用STEM中心中心(https://stem-central.net/).)该中心将在参与机构和网络研讨会上介绍干预措施的影响，突出K-20 STEM社区的成功干预措施，以促进成功工作的广泛传播。(3)为STEM教员提供实习机会，以增加他们的研究专长；(4)对干预措施进行严格评估，以满足发表在同行评议期刊上的标准，并(5)协助参与机构进行数据分析和解释。LSRCE建立在UVIS NSF历史上资助的黑人学院和大学-本科课程实现卓越竞争(ACE)实施项目的成功基础上，UVI增长模型，将增长心态培训整合到STEM本科课程和圣达菲学院NSF资助的地球科学领域的IUSE项目。通过与斯坦福大学干预实验室和哥伦比亚大学群体间关系和社会意识实验室的现有合作，FL-C LSRCE将开发易于部署的STEM心态干预和培训，了解STEM教师反馈对学生心态的影响。综合评估结果和干预措施将通过STEM中心门户网站、AAAS开放论坛门户网站和其他STEM协作网络平台、机构网站和其他场所(会议演示和学术研究成果)广泛传播。该奖项由NSF INCLUDE共同资助，重点是催化STEM企业为包容性变革而合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority populations (African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders) to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM. Louis Stokes Regional Centers of Excellence in Broadening Participation (LSRCEs) are designed to serve as regional testbeds for outreach, knowledge-generating and diffusion activities or other activities that contribute to successful practices in STEM education. LSRCE activities may also be concentrated in the development of disciplinary research institutes.Santa Fe College, a two-year institution and the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), a historically black university (HBCU) will implement activities of the Florida-Caribbean Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence in Broadening Participation (FL-C LSRCE), in conjunction with Columbia University and the Stanford Interventions Lab, Stanford University over the next three years. Administrators and faculty from several LSAMP projects, including the Florida-Georgia and University of Puerto Rico and Alabama alliances will participate as implementers of the research to practice activities and serve as consultants to the center. The FL-C LSRCE will enhance the success of students from traditionally underrepresented minority populations in STEM by developing, testing and disseminating intervention practices to reduce the impact of stereotype threat and enhance growth mindset in the face of academic challenges.Center activities will include: (1) hosting an annual conference on psychosocial interventions that provides faculty access to the research-based STEM-focused interventions and training on the importance of faculty feedback andinteraction on student success; (2) utilizing the STEM-Central hub (https://stem-central.net/). This hub will feature presentations on the impact of interventions at participating institutions and webinars that spotlight successful interventions in the K-20 STEM community to promote widespread dissemination of successful work. (3) provide internships for STEM faculty to increase their research expertise; (4) conduct rigorous assessment on the interventions to meet standards for publication in peer-reviewed journals, and (5) assist participating institutions in data analysis and interpretation.This LSRCE builds on the success of UVIs NSF funded Historically Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program's Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Implementation Project, the UVI Growth Model, integrating growth mindset training into the STEM undergraduate programming and Santa Fe College's NSF-funded IUSE projects in geosciences. Through existing collaborations with the Stanford University Interventions Lab and the Lab of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind at Columbia University, the FL-C LSRCE will develop easily deployed STEM mindset interventions and training on the impact of STEM faculty feedback on student mindset. The comprehensive evaluation findings and interventions will be widely disseminated through the STEM Central portal, AAAS Open Forum portal and other collaborative STEM networking platforms, the institutions' websites, and other venues (conference presentations and production of scholarly research).This award is co-funded by NSF INCLUDES which focuses on catalyzing the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change.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.