Conference: CLASP: broadening participation and deepening its community of practice

文理学院赞助项目实践社区(CLAP)是一个免费和开放的资源，目前代表着全国330多所以本科生为主的机构，特别是符合“文科学院”框架(PUI LACS)的机构。CALP将举办一系列会议，以提高其能力，以满足受赞助的研究专业人员的需求，这些专业人员往往是拉丁美洲和加勒比地区教育学院唯一的此类专业人员。在这些会议上，受赞助的研究专业人员将：制定各种机构的研究管理能力和有效性建设战略；制定协议，改进对服务于大量在科学领域代表性不足的学生的机构的外联和支持；以及制定程序，代表和宣传这一新兴研究机构的子集的研究贡献。研究小组将与卡尔顿学院的科学教育资源中心(SERC)合作，对CLAP成员进行虚拟和面对面的调查和召集，以：1)开发工具和可扩展的模型，促进以本科生为主的机构的研究，符合“文科学院”(PUI LACS)的框架；2)扩大实践社区的参与，以支持少数群体服务机构等组织的需求；3)减少从外部资助者获取信息的系统性障碍。这些发现将为如何加强各种规模和类型的PUI LAC的研究管理人员之间的合作、知识共享和加强沟通提供早期洞察。 该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 Colleges of Liberal Arts Sponsored Programs Community of Practice (CLASP) is a free and open resource that currently represents more than 330 predominantly undergraduate institutions, particularly institutions that fit within the “liberal arts college” framework (PUI LACs) across the nation. CLASP will hold a series of convenings to improve its ability to meet the needs of sponsored research professionals, often the only such professional at PUI LAC institutions. At these convenings sponsored research professionals will: develop strategies for building the capacity and effectiveness of research administration across a diverse range of institutions; build protocols that improve outreach to, and support for, institutions that serve significant numbers of students underrepresented in the sciences; and create procedures for representing and advocating for the research contributions of this subset of Emerging Research Institutions. In partnership with the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College, the research team will survey and convene the CLASP membership, both virtually and in person, to: 1) develop tools and scalable models advancing research at predominantly undergraduate institutions that fit within the “liberal arts college” framework (PUI LACs); 2) broaden participation within this Community of Practice to support the needs of organizations such as minority-serving institutions, and 3) reduce systemic barriers to accessing information about and from external funders. These findings will provide early insight into how to increase partnership, knowledge sharing, and enhance communication between research administrators at PUI LACs of all sizes and types. 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.