The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new funding opportunity of nearly $29 million through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.
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The program is an effort to create a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting and sharing knowledge and successful models of undergraduate STEM education at HSIs, building institutional capacity, and effectively broadening participation of students that are historically underrepresented in STEM.
“Enhancing the quality and accessibility of STEM education is far too complex of a challenge for a one-size-fits-all solution and it is imperative that we engage in creative and meaningful partnerships with HSIs at speed and at scale to meet the STEM needs of our nation,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. “If we are to successfully advance America’s future STEM workforce, we must enhance educational opportunities, build capacity and increase student participation, retention and career sustainability at our nation’s academic institutions. NSF’s investments in this program will do just that.”
These centers will promote research and provide opportunities for minority students, especially Hispanic.
“The HSI program is designed to serve the diverse HSI community with unique needs and their students and faculty,” said Erika T. Camacho, director of the HSI program. “Through the creation of the HSI-Net, we are supporting community transformation efforts at HSIs to collectively contribute to research on HSIs and their capacity to address equity in education and intentionally serve their students to better prepare them to address future challenges. The HSI-Net will allow us to further impact the STEM research enterprise and workforce for the success and prosperity of our nation.”
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