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

路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，通过努力显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数族裔（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民）学生的数量，夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民)成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。路易斯·斯托克斯扩大参与卓越区域中心（LSRCEs）旨在作为推广、知识产生和传播活动或其他有助于STEM教育成功实践的活动的区域试验台。社会科学研究中心的活动也可集中于发展学科研究机构。圣达菲学院是一个两年制的机构，维尔京群岛大学（UVI）是一个历史悠久的黑人大学（HBCU）将与哥伦比亚大学和斯坦福大学的斯坦福干预实验室一起，在未来三年内实施佛罗里达-加勒比路易斯·斯托克斯区域卓越中心扩大参与（FL-C LSRCE）的活动。来自几个LSAMP项目的管理人员和教师，包括佛罗里达-乔治亚州和波多黎各大学和阿拉巴马州联盟，将作为研究实践活动的实施者参与，并担任该中心的顾问。从业者和研究者的合作，利用强大的社会心理干预来提高社会情感技能，对大学的成功至关重要。FL-C LSRCE将通过开发，测试和传播干预实践来减少刻板印象威胁的影响，并在面对学术挑战时增强成长心态，从而提高传统上代表性不足的少数民族学生在STEM领域的成功。中心活动将包括：(1)举办年度心理社会干预会议，为教师提供以研究为基础的stem干预措施，并培训教师反馈和互动对学生成功的重要性；(2)利用STEM-Central hub （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，重点介绍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)目标3：为STEM教师提供实习机会，提高他们的研究专长；(4)对干预措施进行严格的评估，以满足在同行评审期刊上发表的标准；(5)协助参与机构进行数据分析和解释。这个LSRCE建立在UVIs NSF资助的历史黑人学院和大学的本科项目实现竞争卓越（ACE）实施项目的成功基础上，UVI增长模型，将成长心态训练融入STEM本科编程和圣达菲学院的NSF资助的地球科学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心理实验室的现有合作，FL-C LSRCE将开发易于部署的STEM心态干预和STEM教师反馈对学生心态影响的培训。综合评估结果和干预措施将通过STEM中央门户网站、美国科学促进会开放论坛门户网站和其他STEM协作网络平台、各机构网站和其他场所（会议演讲和学术研究生产）广泛传播。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）资助，致力于促进STEM企业协同工作，实现包容性变革。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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. A practitioner/researcher collaboration, utilizing powerful psychosocial interventions to enhance social-emotional skills, is vital for college success. 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) Objective 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.