Workshops: Broadening Participation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the NSF Research Traineeship and Innovations in Graduate Education Programs

这项授予杰克逊州立大学的奖项得到了国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)和研究生教育创新(IGE)计划的支持。该项目团队将汇集卡内基博士大学高等研究(R2)历史黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的成员、研究生教育专家、研究生、其他HBCU和NSF项目官员。将举办两次讲习班，以应对与增加STEM博士人数有关的挑战。并为参与机构的研究人员提供支持和培训，以便为NRT和IGE计划提出创造性的建议。这些研讨会旨在提供关于如何创建新的研究生模式以增加少数族裔博士生的招生、留住和毕业的信息、理解和培训。该项目致力于制定战略和关键建议，以解决国家对申请STEM博士项目的非裔美国人数量日益增长的担忧。通过促进NSF项目官员与R2 HBCU研究生教育利益相关者联盟的密切互动，研讨会旨在提高人们对NRT和IGE项目的兴趣和认识，以及R2 HBCU机构提交的提案数量。研讨会的具体目标是1)了解和调查如何利用R2 HBCU机构与NRT和IGE项目之间的关系；2)调查R2 HBCU联盟之间可能支持博士生招聘、保留和定位的当前模式和最佳实践；3)提供建议书撰写培训，以支持为NRT和IGE项目制作有竞争力的建议书，以支持这些模式。此外，该项目将是填补国家科学基金会与R2个负担得起的债务负担单位之间联系和沟通方面的空白的一条途径，这可导致科学、技术、经济和经济领域的更大多样性。然后，该项目产生的模型可以被测试并应用于R2 HBCU在资金方面代表性不足的其他NSF项目。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革意义的STEM研究生教育培训模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。研究生教育创新(IGE)项目专注于研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛社区所需的知识。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。

This award to Jackson State University is supported by the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) and Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) programs. The project team will bring together members of the Carnegie Doctoral Universities High Research (R2) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), experts in graduate education, graduate students, other HBCUs, and NSF program officers. Two workshops will be organized to address challenges related to increasing the number of STEM Ph.Ds. from underserved populations and providing support and training to investigators from the participating institutions to generate creative proposals for the NRT and IGE programs. The workshops are intended to provide information, understanding, and training on how new graduate models can be created to increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority Ph.D. students. This project endeavors to develop strategies and critical recommendations that will address growing national concerns about the number of African Americans applying to Ph.D. programs in STEM. By promoting the close interaction of NSF program officers with a coalition of R2 HBCU graduate education stakeholders, the workshops are intended to increase interest in and awareness of the NRT and IGE programs and the number of proposals submitted by R2 HBCU institutions. The specific goals of the workshops are to 1) understand and investigate how to leverage relationships between R2 HBCU institutions and the NRT and IGE programs; 2) investigate current models and best practices between the coalition of R2 HBCUs that may support recruitment, retention, and positioning of Ph.D. STEM students into the U.S. workforce, and 3) provide proposal writing training to support the production of competitive proposals to the NRT and IGE programs to support these models. Additionally, this project will be a path forward to filling in the gaps in outreach to and communications with R2 HBCUs by the NSF, which can lead to greater diversity in the STEM fields. The model that results from this project can then be tested and applied to other NSF programs where R2 HBCUs are underrepresented in funding. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test, and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.