Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Research Infrastructures and STEM Talent Systems

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Developing a strong capacity in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) to engage in research and knowledge production in the education and social science can enable strong alignment of the educational mission and purpose of these critical institutions within the K-12 ecosystem. This panel will explore an interconnected, varied, and broadly applicable set of approaches to ensure education R&D is more effective and responsive to the needs of all learners by expanding funding and supports to a wider array of institutions and researchers, growing a more diverse pipeline of R&D professionals, and better incorporating a broader range of communities’ assets, needs, expertise, and perspectives. Expanding and strengthening the role HBCUs, MSIs, and TCUs play education R&D ecosystem is a critical, long-term project—as is building, strengthening, and sustaining the institutional and human capacity necessary to take full advantage of new opportunities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Honorary President Edmund W. Gordon Series

Cosponsor

• AERA Research and Science Policy Sessions

Chair

• Brenda A. Allen, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Participant

• Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University

Presenters

• M. Christopher Brown, Thurgood Marshall College Fund

• Anne-Marie Nunez, University of Texas - El Paso

• Timothy E. Sams, SUNY - Old Westbury