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

改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构计划（HSI计划）旨在加强本科STEM教育并建立HSI的能力。HSI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。在新墨西哥州州立大学，多纳安娜社区学院，和加州州立大学，北岭，这一合作项目将通过建立在西班牙裔服务机构干教育的NSF国家资源中心推进HSI计划的目标。 这个HSI资源中心将帮助HSI制定战略和流程，以获得提高本科STEM教育质量和成果所需的资源。 它还将支持努力建设机构能力，以推进学生和教师在HSIs的STEM职业生涯。HSI资源中心旨在通过建立所有HSI的国家网络来实现这些目标;提供培训，指导和同行评议，以改善赠款写作实践;使机构能够识别和填补其获得资金的能力差距，并开发进行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;传播资源，支持以证据为基础的包容性教学实践，提高学生的保留率和毕业率。 这个项目有可能推进有关如何加强本科STEM教育的知识，如何建立研究能力，以及如何为这些努力获得资源，在HSI和其他机构。HSI资源中心希望达到美国450多个HSI，特别关注包括那些很少或根本没有得到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教育中实施领先的教学法。区域会议，研讨会，在线网络平台，认证和小型补助金计划，为初级教师将支持广泛的参与，并提高专业知识，编写有效的赠款建议。 差距分析和合作将帮助HSIs识别和开发管理成功的STEM研究和教育项目所需的基础设施。 对HSI资源中心的评估将使用定量、定性和混合方法，以提供在整个资助期间指导和完善项目的数据。HSI资源中心的活动和成果将通过专门的网站、会议演示、研讨会、通讯、出版物和社交媒体传播。通过联合全国的HSIs，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 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.