Project Grant 2430323

This $204,718 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project between five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) - Miles College, Howard University, Morgan State University, Tennessee State University, and Winston-Salem State University. The project, titled "The HBCU UJIMA Collective: Building Research Capacity at HBCUs Through a Grow Your Own Research Corps Model," aims to develop an adaptable model for training and building a corps of research administrators and scientists to enhance research capacity across HBCUs nationwide. The project will design, pilot, assess, and share this "grow your own" training model to directly impact the advancement of research capacity at the partnering HBCUs and recruit additional institutions to evaluate the model's effectiveness. The goal is to understand how increasing and aligning human capital can advance research capacity at different HBCUs by exploring the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics required for efficient and effective research administrators and scientists working at these institutions.