Conference: A Virtual Workshop for Two-Year College Geoscience Faculty to Develop National Science Foundation Grant Proposals

会议：两年制大学地球科学教师制定国家科学基金会拨款提案的虚拟研讨会

• 批准号: 2349758
• 负责人: Rebecca Walker
• 金额: $ 14.3万
• 依托单位: Mount San Antonio College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349758&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Virtual; Workshop; Two; Year

This project aims to serve the national interest by building capacity in the two-year college (2YC) geoscience community to develop, write, and submit proposals to the National Science Foundation. To expand participation of 2YCs in leading externally funded projects, a seven-day virtual workshop will be convened to mentor 2YC faculty in the grant proposal development process and subsequent submission to relevant programs in the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education and Directorate for Geosciences. Part 1 of the workshop will be led by 2YC faculty with successful NSF proposal experience. This part is designed to increase participants’ familiarity with specific NSF programs, generate and clarify proposal ideas, and identify potential peer collaborators for proposal writing. Part 2 of the workshop is modeled after the successful SAGE 2YC Writing Workshop and will include structured writing and development sessions designed to move participants through the proposal writing process. Upon the conclusion of part 2, participants will have a complete draft of a planning grant, conference proposal, or full proposal and will have additional opportunities for consultations after the workshop to complete supporting proposal documents and receive final feedback before submitting their proposal to NSF. Proposals that receive funding will impact curriculum, faculty professional development, transfer, student career pathways, undergraduate research, and workforce preparation. Considering the demographics of students at 2YCs, greater participation by 2YCs in externally funded projects has the potential to enhance the number and diversity of geoscience majors and the geoscience workforce. This project also has the potential to aid in developing and strengthening relationships between 2YCs and four-year institutions and will improve undergraduate education in geoscience and other STEM fields. The project will introduce workshop participants to NSF grant opportunities that are particularly suitable for 2YCs as the lead institution, support faculty in developing, writing, and submitting NSF proposals, and provide a space for 2YC faculty to build a community of peer collaborators for single or multi-institutional grants, conference proposals, and planning grants. This workshop will also advance community understanding about effective mechanisms for (1) developing peer collaborations and collaborative proposals in an intensive workshop format, (2) addressing some of the major barriers to proposal preparation and submission faced by 2YC faculty, and (3) mentoring 2YC faculty as they progress from novice to experienced proposal writers. Workshop evaluation will increase knowledge about how workshop structure and post-workshop support influences the number of grants submitted by 2YC faculty. The NSF IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC) Program seeks to advance knowledge and accelerate the impact of emerging and evidence-based practices in undergraduate STEM education at two-year colleges.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.

该项目旨在通过在两年年级学院（2YC）地球科学界建立能力来发展，写作和提交建议的建议来为国家利益服务。为了扩大2YC在领先的外部资助项目中的参与，将在赠款提案开发过程中向心理2YC教师召集为期7天的虚拟研讨会，并随后向NSF本科教育和地理科学局的NSF部门提交相关计划。该研讨会的第1部分将由2YC教师领导，并具有成功的NSF提案经验。该部分旨在提高参与者对特定的NSF计划的熟悉程度，生成和澄清建议思想，并确定潜在的同伴合作者进行提案写作。该研讨会的第2部分是在成功的Sage 2YC写作研讨会之后建模的，并将包括旨在通过提案写作过程来移动参与者的结构化写作和开发会议。第2部分结束后，参与者将获得计划赠款，会议建议或完整提案的完整草案，并在研讨会结束后有更多的咨询机会，以完成支持提案文件并获得最终反馈，然后再向NSF提交建议。获得资金的建议将影响课程，教师专业发展，转学，学生职业途径，本科研究和劳动力准备。考虑到2YCS学生的人口统计学，2YC在外部资助的项目中的参与有可能提高地球科学专业和地球科学劳动力的数量和多样性。该项目还有可能协助发展和加强2YC与四年制机构之间的关系，并将改善地球科学和其他STEM领域的本科教育。该项目将向NSF赠款机会介绍研讨会的机会，这些机会特别适合2YC作为领导机构，支持教职员工开发，写作和提交NSF建议，并为2YC教师提供一个为同伴合作者建立一个单一或多机构的GRANTS，会议建议，会议建议，会议建议，并计划赠款的同伴合作者社区的空间。该研讨会还将提高社区对（1）以密集研讨会形式开发同伴协作和协作提案的有效机制的理解，（2）解决2YC教师提出的准备和提交的一些主要障碍，以及（3）从Notazzle dobless notazzle到经验丰富的建议者，他们从中进行了精神上的教师。研讨会评估将增加有关研讨会结构和工作后支持如何影响2YC教师提交的赠款数量的知识。 NSF IUSE：两年年度STEM教育（ITYC）计划的创新旨在提高知识并加速两年年级大学的新兴和基于证据的实践在本科STEM教育中的影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是珍贵的支持。