WORKSHOP: Pathways:Improving the African American Presence in Comparative Politics and International Relations to Improve Scholarship and Teaching

路径研讨会旨在解决缺乏在政治学中进行定量比较政治学和国际关系研究和教学的非裔美国教师的问题。这项赠款提案的目的是为两个新的讲习班和指导机构访问申请资金。讲习班和访问的目的是提供一个环境，让这些研究领域的高级教员向初级教员提供反馈，以支持出版和终身教职。预期的结果是，这些研究领域的非裔美国终身教职教师的数量将会增加。我们期望他们的奖学金将为重大的学术和政策辩论提供信息，并培养出能够指导该专业下一代年轻学者的资深教师。还将在该领域的高级和初级学者之间建立一个网络。技术总结研讨会和导师机构访问旨在向初级教师、博士后和研究生提供这些领域高级教师关于如何发布和导航终身教职过程的反馈。研讨会将在两个主要的专业会议上举行：美国政治学协会的年度会议和国际研究协会的年会，期间将提供对初级参与者工作的口头和书面反馈。初级学员将在正式报告中向所有高级和初级学员展示正在进行的手稿。预计会有口头和书面意见。此外，研讨会结束后对初级参与者所在大学机构的导师机构访问以及通过Google Hangout举行的虚拟会议都是旨在在终身教职过程中提供持续反馈的机制。与此同时，这使高级教员能够更多地了解初级教员寻求终身教职的特定机构的终身教职要求，并就如何制作满足国家学术学科和地方大学一级终身教职要求的研究、教学和服务记录提供建议。

General SummaryThe Pathways workshops are designed to address the lack of African-American faculty who conduct research and teach in quantitative Comparative Politics and International Relations within Political Science. The purpose of this grant proposal is to request funding for two new workshops and mentor institutional visits. The workshops and visits are designed to provide an environment in which senior faculty in these fields of study provide feedback to junior faculty in order to support publication and tenure. The outcome anticipated is an increase in the number of African-American tenured faculty in these fields of study. We expect that their scholarship will inform major academic and policy debates as well as produce senior faculty who are able to mentor the next generation of young scholars in the profession. A network among senior and junior scholars in the field will also be created.Technical SummaryThe workshops and mentor institutional visits are designed to provide feedback from senior faculty in these fields to junior faculty, post-doctoral students and graduate students on how to publish and navigate the tenure process. Verbal and written feedback on the junior participant's work will be provided during the workshops which will be held at two major professional conferences: the American Political Science Association's and the International Studies Association's annual meetings. Junior participants will present a manuscript in progress in a formal presentation to all of the senior and junior workshop participants. Verbal and written comments are expected. In addition, mentor institutional visits to junior participant's home university institutions after the workshops as well as virtual meetings via Google Hangout are mechanisms designed to provide continuous feedback during the tenure process. Simultaneously, this allows senior faculty to learn more about the tenure requirements of the particular institution at which junior faculty seek tenure and to advise on how to produce a research, teaching and service record that satisfies tenure requirements at the national academic disciplinary and local university levels.