Resource Hub: The NSF National Resource Hub for STEM Education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

改善本科生STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划(HSI计划)旨在加强本科生STEM教育，并在HSIS建设能力。人类安全倡议计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。这个由新墨西哥州立大学、多娜安娜社区学院和加州州立大学北岭分校合作的项目将通过在服务于拉美裔机构的NSF STEM教育全国资源中心的建立来推进HSI计划的目标。HSI资源中心将帮助HSI制定战略和流程，以获得提高本科STEM教育质量和结果所需的资源。它还将支持努力建设机构能力，以推进高等商学院学生和教职员工的STEM职业生涯。HSI资源中心旨在通过以下方式实现这些目标：建立所有HSI的国家网络；提供培训、指导和同行审查，以改进赠款申请做法；使各机构能够确定和填补其获得资金的能力差距，并开发开展STEM研究的行政工具；提供与STEM教育相关的多样性、公平和包容性问题的培训；以及传播支持以证据为基础的包容性教学做法的资源，以增加学生留校率和毕业率。这个项目有可能促进关于如何在HSIS和其他机构加强本科生STEM教育，如何建设研究能力，以及如何获得这些努力的资源的知识。HSI资源中心渴望接触到美国超过450家HSI，特别关注包括那些以前很少或没有得到NSF支持的机构。该项目旨在建立HSI合作，以支持现有的STEM研究，提高STEM研究能力，并鼓励在STEM教育中实施尖端教学法。地区性会议、研讨会、在线网络平台、证书和初级教师的小型拨款计划将支持广泛参与，并在撰写有效的拨款提案方面增强专业知识。差距分析和协作将帮助HSI确定和开发管理成功的STEM研究和教育项目所需的基础设施。对恒生指数资源中心的评估将使用定量、定性和混合方法来提供数据，这些数据将在整个供资期间指导和完善项目。恒生指数资源中心的活动和成果将通过一个专门的网站、会议介绍、研讨会、通讯、出版物和社交媒体进行传播。通过联合全国各地的HSI，HSI资源中心预计将对提高攻读STEM学位的学生的学位完成率产生积极影响，从而增强美国STEM劳动力的多样性。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 Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (HSI Program) aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims. This collaborative project at New Mexico State University, Dona Ana Community College, and California State University, Northridge, will advance the aims of the HSI Program by establishing the NSF National Resource Hub for STEM Education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. This HSI Resource Hub will help HSIs develop the strategies and processes to obtain the resources needed to improve the quality and outcomes of undergraduate STEM education. It will also support efforts to build institutional capacity for advancing the STEM careers of students and faculty at HSIs. The HSI Resource Hub aims to achieve these goals by building a national network of all HSIs; providing training, mentorship, and peer review to improve grant-writing practices; enabling institutions to identify and fill gaps in their capacity to obtain funding, and to develop administrative tools for conducting STEM research; providing training on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues relevant to STEM education; and disseminating resources that support evidence-based, inclusive teaching practices that increase student retention and graduation. This project has the potential to advance knowledge about how to enhance undergraduate STEM education, how to build research capacity, and how to obtain resources for these efforts, at HSIs and other institutions.The HSI Resource Hub aspires to reach the more than 450 HSIs in the US, with special focus on including those institutions that have received little or no prior NSF support. The project aims to build HSI collaborations that can support existing STEM research, increase STEM research capacity, and encourage implementation of leading-edge pedagogy in STEM education. Regional conferences, workshops, online networking platforms, certifications, and a mini-grant program for junior faculty will support broad participation and enhance professional expertise in writing effective grant proposals. Gap analysis and collaborations will help HSIs identify and develop the infrastructure needed to manage successful STEM research and education projects. Evaluation of the HSI Resource Hub will use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies to provide data that will guide and refine the project throughout the funding period. The HSI Resource Hub activities and outcomes will be disseminated through a dedicated website, conference presentations, workshops, newsletters, publications, and social media. By uniting HSIs across the nation, the HSI Resource Hub is expected to have positive impacts on increasing the degree completion rates of students pursuing STEM degrees, thus enhancing the diversity of the US STEM workforce.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.