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NSF-CRI'07 Breakout Session
June 4, 2007
Supporting Sponsored Research
at Minority Institutions
Minority institutions often
face difficulties in attracting funding to support either on-going
research, or help in establishing a successful research program.
Building research collaborations with other institutions is one way to
build research capacity. The NSF Minority Institutions Infrastructure (MII)
program was effective in building research programs at numerous
minority-serving institutions. Unfortunately, this program has been
phased out and merged into the CRI program. Another effective program is
the NSF CISE Broadening Participation in Computing program that targets
building alliances to increase the number of persons from traditionally
underserved groups who are in the area of computing. Questions to be
addressed in this breakout session include: Is nurturing research in
minority institutions a continued goal of the CRI community? How can one
build meaningful research collaborations? What initiatives can NSF take
to enhance its successes towards these goals? What other initiatives can
be taken (in addition to these currently available under NSF)?
Session Leader and Moderator:
Luc Longpre, University of Texas at El Paso |
