Examplars-Nuggets
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The NSF CI-TEAM Minority-Serving Institutions CyberInfrastructure Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC) has enabled some initial MSIs to partner with CI projects and resources to enhance the education and research needs of MSI faculty and students to be competitive in the global, knowledge-based economy and society of the 21st century. Its mission is to build and enhance the social and technological mechanisms for meaningful engagement of MSIs in CI,- the increasingly important collection of scientific, arts and humanities projects and resources joined by the developing Internet that is defining new forms of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), art and humanities research and education. The mainstay of CI is collaboration. MSI-CIEC provides a point of collaboration or engagement to CI for MSIs and to MSIs for CI projects and resources, as a scalable, equitable mechanism for developing a CI-enabled science and engineering workforce inclusive of MSIs as full-partners. Equally, MSIs provide an efficient mechanism to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities- Native Americans, African Americans and Hispanics- due to their unique missions to serve these populations through their respective institutions of higher learning.
By way of example of what we consider meaningful engagement in Cyberinfrastructure (CI), here are two brief descriptions of Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) who are building their capacity to participate in CI.
Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) the PolarGrid
