NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: A Collaboration of Hispanic Serving Institutions and Organizations to Strengthen Pathways to STEM Graduate Education for Latinx Students

美国STEM劳动力的增长对经济和全球竞争力至关重要。为了发展劳动力，需要在社会所有部门中培养STEM人才。该规划赠款项目包括一个由西班牙裔学院和大学协会(HACU)和两个拉美裔服务机构(HSI)组成的领导小组：加州大学圣巴巴拉分校和亚利桑那大学。项目负责人将聘请数十个HSI和组织来构建协作基础设施。合作伙伴将共同追求一个共识愿景，以应对日益扩大的参与挑战，即加强途径，以提高就读HSIS的拉丁裔学生在STEM领域的硕士和博士学位。这一规划拨款的结果预计将为未来的联盟、中心或网络奠定基础，以应对在全国范围内确定的STEM日益扩大的参与挑战。规划拨款领导团队将吸收数十名HSI利益相关者，包括行政领导、从业人员和教职员工，以及来自国家组织的代表。项目领导人将召开三次地区性会议，一次是来自美国西南部的与会者，一次是美国西海岸的参与者，另一次是美国东海岸的代表。地区会议将为合作组织提供一个论坛，以建立一个强大的协作基础设施：制定共同的愿景；扩大伙伴关系，包括广泛的组织和机构社区；建立共同的目标和衡量标准；巩固领导结构；建立和改善合作伙伴之间的沟通；以及扩大或扩大工作。这项NSF包括规划拨款由NSF在全国范围内纳入工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区计划(NSF Includes)提供资金，该计划是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的参与，在规模上加强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。规划拨款也由NSF的西班牙裔服务机构计划(HSI)资助；HSI计划提供支持，以提高本科生STEM教育的质量，并提高攻读STEM专科或学士学位的学生的招生、留住和毕业率。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 growth of the United States STEM workforce is important to economic and global competitiveness. Developing STEM talent among all sectors of society is needed in order to grow the workforce. This planning grant project includes a leadership team of experts from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and two Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): The University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Arizona. The project leaders will engage dozens of HSIs and organization to build a collaborative infrastructure. Together, the partners will pursue a consensus vision to address the broadening participation challenge of strengthening pathways to increase master’s and doctoral degree attainment in STEM fields for Latinx students attending HSIs. The outcomes of this planning grant are expected to lay the foundation for a future alliance, center or network to address the identified broadening participation challenge in STEM at a national scale.The planning grant leadership team will engage dozens of HSI stakeholders, including administrative leaders, practitioners and faculty, and representatives from national organizations. The project leaders will convene three regional meetings, one involving participants from the US South West, one engaging individuals on the US West Coast and another including representatives on the US East Coast. The regional convenings will provide a forum for partnering organizations to build a robust collaborative infrastructure: To develop a shared vision; to expand the partnerships to include a broad community of organizations and institutions; to establish shared goals and metrics; to solidify the leadership structure; to establish and improve communication across the partners; and to scale or expand the work.This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by the NSF’s Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science program (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The planning grant is also funded by the NSF’s Hispanic Serving Institutions program (HSI); and the HSI program provides support to enhance the quality of undergraduate STEM education and to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associates or baccalaureate degrees in STEM.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.