NSF IGE Innovation Acceleration Hub

研究生教育创新（IGE）项目旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、潜在的变革方法来进行STEM研究生教育培训。成功的IGE项目试点、测试和验证研究生教育的创新和潜在变革方法。该计划支持测试具有高潜力的新模型或活动，以丰富和扩展有效研究生教育方法的知识库。创新加速中心的目标是通过促进NSF IGE项目获奖者之间关于研究活动和成果的交流，并为外部利益相关者参与提供一个强大的平台，来加速STEM研究生教育的创新。在五年的时间里，研究生院理事会（CGS）将设计、开发、评估并不断改进一个在线微型网站和全面的沟通策略，以促进IGE获奖者和更广泛的STEM研究生教育社区之间的学习和合作。CGS将利用其作为一个拥有500多名硕士和博士机构成员的组织的作用，扩大对IGE资助项目成果的认识，并为未来的获奖者提供IGE项目机会。Hub的沟通和推广策略特别强调增加来自传统黑人学院或大学（HBCUs）、少数族裔服务机构（msi）和其他服务于代表性不足人口的机构的提案的数量和质量。CGS将促进不同利益相关者的网络对话，探讨研究生教育创新的研究，通过各种活动，共同有可能改善制度化、系统性和变革性的STEM研究生课程。活动范围将包括调查和焦点小组研究、网站开发、研讨会、研究论坛和其他会议。CGS收集的数据，并从理论框架（包括自我效能、集体影响和文化历史活动理论）的角度进行分析，将为持续改进提供信息。研究结果还将有助于了解这种基于“中心”的方法如何加速循证实践的更广泛采用和制度化，并在广泛的机构中推动创新，特别是在STEM研究生教育中。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 Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. Successful IGE projects pilot, test, and validate innovative and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education. The program supports testing of novel models or activities with high potential to enrich and extend the knowledge base on effective graduate education approaches.The goal of the Innovation Acceleration Hub is to accelerate innovation in STEM graduate education by facilitating communications about research activities and outcomes among awardees of the NSF IGE program and providing a robust platform for external stakeholder engagement. Over a five-year period, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will design, develop, evaluate, and continuously improve an online microsite and comprehensive communication strategy that will foster learning and collaboration among IGE awardees and the broader STEM graduate education community. CGS will leverage its role as an organization with over 500 master’s and doctoral institution members to broaden awareness of outcomes from funded IGE projects and of IGE program opportunities for prospective awardees. Particular emphasis in the Hub communications and outreach strategy is placed on increasing the number and quality of proposals from historically black colleges or universities (HBCUs), minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and other institutions serving underrepresented populations. CGS will foster networks of diverse stakeholders in dialogue about research on innovations in graduate education through activities that collectively have the potential to result in improvements to STEM graduate programs that are institutionalized, systemic, and transformative. The range of activities will include survey and focus group research, website development, workshops, research forums, and other convenings. Data collected by CGS and analyzed from a perspective informed by theoretical frameworks including self-efficacy, collective impact, and cultural-historical activity theories will inform continuous improvement. Results will also contribute to knowledge about how such a "Hub"-based approach can accelerate broader adoption and institutionalization of evidence-based practices and drive innovation across a wide range of institutions, generally, and in STEM graduate education specifically.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.