A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance and Biology Network to Increase Competitiveness of HBCUs in the Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education Program

少数民族素质教育（QEM）网络请求美国国家科学基金会（NSF）本科生物学教育研究协调网络（RCN-UBE）计划提供一年的支持，以提供一个研讨会，以提高RCN-UBE计划的认识，使RCN-UBE网络提案的成功发展。并最终导致全国范围内传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的研究人员和教育工作者的重大专业发展。这项工作的主要目的是培养HBCU研究人员的提案开发技能，为RCN-UBE项目培养具有竞争力的提案库。为了实现这一目标，QEM建议实现以下目标：在2021年9月为40名有兴趣在2022年奖励周期中提交成功的RCN-UBE提案的教师举办为期两天的提案开发研讨会；建立一个RCN-UBE实践社区，其中将包括一个与社会媒体接口的列表服务和网站，这将被用作正在制定提案的hbcu的信息共享和协作网络；通过一系列研讨会后、顾问主导的个性化会议，为参与者提供额外指导，鼓励参与者在2022年1月截止日期前提交RCN-UBE提案；向更多服务少数族裔的社区传播讲习班和讲习班后活动的成果。在msi增加RCN-UBE奖将帮助他们进行能力建设，发展和维持学生在生物科学领域的入学和入学，并使科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）职业多样化，为美国的全球竞争力做出贡献。该项目由生物基础设施司生物科学理事会资助，作为应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）所提出的挑战的努力的一部分。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 Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network is requesting one year of support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) Program to provide a workshop that will lead to increased awareness of the RCN-UBE program, enable the development of successful RCN-UBE network proposals, and ultimately lead to significant professional development of researchers and educators from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) nationwide. The main purpose of this work is to nurture HBCU researchers’ proposal development skills to cultivate a competitive pool of proposals to the RCN-UBE Program. To achieve this goal, QEM proposes to meet the following objectives: Conduct a two-day proposal development workshop in September of 2021 for 40 faculty who are interested in submitting successful RCN-UBE proposals in the 2022 awards cycle; Develop an RCN-UBE community of practice that will include a listserv and website that interfaces with social media, which will be used as an information sharing and collaboration network for HBCUs that are developing proposals; Provide additional guidance to participants through a series of post-workshop, consultant-led, individualized sessions to encourage participant submission of an RCN-UBE proposal by the January 2022 deadline; and Disseminate the results of workshop and post-workshop activities to the greater minority-serving community. Increasing RCN-UBE awards at MSIs will assist them with capacity building, developing and sustaining student enrolment and matriculation in the biological sciences, and diversify science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers contributing to America's global competitiveness. This project is being funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure as part of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.