NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Developing a Collaborative Infrastructure for Educating STEM Undergraduate Students who are Neurodiverse Learners

NSF 包括规划拨款：开发协作基础设施，以教育神经多样化学习者的 STEM 本科生

• 批准号: 2040736
• 负责人: Ronda Jenson
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Planning; Grant; Developing

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. The proposed collaboration brings together personnel from Northern Arizona University, The Ohio State University, Auburn University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Hawaii and Kansas State University, to address the five key elements of collaborative infrastructure for a future alliance of stakeholders and a national broadening participation agenda. The team will focus on the challenge of increasing people with neurodiversity in STEM fields, by increasing the number of undergraduate students with Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other diverse neurological disabilities who succeed in STEM education. The team’s plan includes multiple regional convenings of team members and community stakeholders. The project is expected to eventually engage a broad group of representatives from dozens of universities, colleges and community colleges, including those institutions of higher education that are known to serve specific diverse populations, such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Included among these institutions are former recipients of the NSF Research in Disabilities in Education (RDE) program’s Alliance for Students with Disabilities in STEM awards and NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot grants (DDLPs). Additionally, stakeholders from national organizations, industry, vocational rehabilitation, and STEM students who identify as neurodiverse will be involved. The planned stakeholder meetings will provide a forum for partners to build a culturally appropriate 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.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.

美国STEM劳动力的增长对经济和全球竞争力很重要。为了发展劳动力，需要在社会的所有部门之间发展STEM人才。拟议的合作将北亚利桑那大学，俄亥俄州立大学，奥本大学，密苏里 - 堪萨斯大学，夏威夷大学和堪萨斯州立大学的人员汇集在一起​​，以解决未来利益相关者和国民宽广参与者的协作基础设施的五个关键要素。该团队将通过增加自闭症，注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）和其他在STEM教育中成功的神经系统疾病的本科生数量来增加STEM领域中神经多样性的挑战。该团队的计划包括团队成员和社区利益相关者的多个区域召集。预计该项目将最终吸引来自数十所大学，学院和社区大学的大量代表，包括那些众所周知的高等教育机构，这些机构可为特定的潜水员提供服务，例如历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCUS），西班牙裔服务机构（HSIS）（HSIS）以及部落学院（TCUS）。在这些机构中，包括NSF教育残疾研究（RDE）计划在STEM Awards中为残疾学生的联盟的接受者，NSF包括设计和开发发射Pilot Grants（DDLPS）。此外，还将涉及来自国家组织，行业，出版康复的利益相关者和识别为神经多样性的STEM学生。计划中的利益相关者会议将为合作伙伴提供一个论坛，以建立适合文化的协作基础设施：建立共同的愿景；扩大合作伙伴关系以包括广泛的组织和机构社区；建立共同的目标和指标；巩固领导结构；建立和改善合作伙伴的沟通； NSF包括规划赠款，由NSF在工程和科学计划中占代表性不足的发现者（NSF的学习者的社区）中的包容性（NSF包括），这是一项全面的国家倡议，这是一项全面的国家倡议，这是一项全面的国家倡议，以增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位，通过在范围内专注于Diversion and Procement of Proiment of Spare and News。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准进行评估。