2006 Minority Faculty Development Workshop

提案标题：2006少数民族教师发展研讨会提案编号：CTS-0541573主要调查者：Gilda A.BarabinoInstitution：东北大学这笔赠款为2006年少数民族教师发展研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将重点关注非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民的教师职业生涯。为了解决所有工程学科的多样性问题，增加代表不足的少数族裔工程学教师队伍是NSF的关键优先事项。研讨会的总体目标是：1)为代表不足的少数族裔教师提供必要的发展工具，以留住和提升学院；2)增加科学和工程专业有色人种教师的数量；3)为制度化的少数族裔教师发展计划提供一个模式，其中包括评估机制和相关的后续行动和相关活动。一般会议将举行：21世纪的工程学教师，来自行政部门的观点，学术界的有色人种女性，以及理解和发展与NSF和其他联邦机构的关系。研讨会将包括：指导，为研究人员撰写文章，赠款，发展谈判和领导技能，终身教职，教学和研究的联系，以及平衡工作和工作以外的生活。还将组织几次关于联网和共同/确定感兴趣的主题的互动会议。工程教育界的杰出领袖将发表几场主旨演讲。将提供与NSF和其他联邦机构的项目经理、部门主任和其他管理人员互动的机会。预计讲习班的成果将是：组织少数族裔教师发展讲习班的资源材料，衡量讲习班成功和影响的评估收费，向初级教师提供关于高级教师志愿者小组手稿和补助金建议的反馈的机制，关于少数族裔教师发展最佳做法的指导方针，以及讲习班参与者的网上跟踪和联网。一个非常强大、多样化的团队将组织研讨会，来自化学工程、机械工程、土木工程和其他工程学科的教师将参加。拟议的研讨会的广泛影响将是广泛的，特别是通过改善代表不足的少数族裔教师的数量，加强他们的学术经验或成就，以及加强他们与联邦资助机构的互动。这些教职员工将反过来成为渴望学术生涯的少数族裔学生的榜样。参加研讨会的主要教育工作者的承诺和网络也可能会促进从代表性不足的群体中招收学生进入工程系的研究生课程。2006年的研讨会将寻求与拉美裔工程学教师进行更强有力的接触，并将成立一个特别工作组，以增加美洲原住民教育工作者的参与。

Proposal Title: 2006 Minority Faculty Development WorkshopProposal Number: CTS-0541573Principal Investigator: Gilda A. BarabinoInstitution: Northeastern UniversityThis grant provides funding for the 2006 Minority Faculty Development Workshop that will focus on the faculty careers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Increasing the ranks of underrepresented minority engineering faculty is a critical priority for NSF in order to address diversity problems in all engineering disciplines. The overall goals of the workshop are: 1) to provide underrepresented minority faculty with the developmental tools necessary for retention and advancement in academe, 2) to increase the numbers of faculty of color in science and engineering, and 3) to provide a model for an institutionalized minority faculty development program that includes mechanisms for assessment and relevant follow up and associated activities. General sessions will be held on: engineering faculty in the 21st century, the view from the administration, women of color in academe, and understanding and developing relationships with NSF and other federal agencies. Workshop sessions will include: mentoring, writing for researchers, grantsmanship, developing negotiation and leadership skills, tenure, connecting teaching and research, and balancing work and life outside of work. Several interactive sessions on networking and topics of shared/defined interest will also be organized. Prominent leaders in engineering education will give several keynote addresses. Opportunities for interaction with program managers, division directors, and other administrators from NSF and other federal agencies will be provided. Outcomes from the workshop are anticipated to be: resource materials for organizing minority faculty development workshops, assessment tolls for measuring the success and impact of the workshops, mechanisms for providing feedback on manuscripts and grants proposals to junior faculty from a panel of senior faculty volunteers, guidelines on best practices for minority faculty development, and a web-based tracking and networking for workshop participants. A very strong, diverse team will organize the workshop, and faculty from chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and other engineering disciplines will participate. The broader impacts of the proposed workshop will be extensive, particularly by improving the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty, strengthening their academic experiences or achievements, and enhancing their interactions with federal funding agencies. These faculty members will in turn serve as role models for minority students who aspire to academic careers. The recruitment of students from underrepresented groups into graduate programs in engineering departments will also likely be enhanced by the commitment and networking of the key educators attending the workshop. The 2006 workshop will seek stronger outreach to Hispanic engineering faculty and will also create a special task force to increase the participation of Native American educators.