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

通路研讨会的目的是解决非洲裔美国教师谁进行研究和定量比较政治学和政治学内的国际关系教学的缺乏。本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，在这些研究领域的高级教师提供反馈给初级教师，以支持出版和任期。预期的结果是在这些研究领域的非洲裔美国终身教职员工的数量增加。我们希望他们的奖学金将为重大的学术和政策辩论提供信息，并培养能够指导下一代年轻学者的高级教师。技术总结研讨会和导师机构访问旨在为这些领域的高级教师向初级教师、博士后学生和研究生提供关于如何发布和导航终身职位过程的反馈。将在两个主要专业会议-美国政治学协会和国际研究协会年会-举办的讲习班期间提供对初级学员工作的口头和书面反馈。初级参与者将在正式演讲中向所有高级和初级研讨会参与者展示正在进行的手稿。口头和书面意见是预期的。此外，导师机构访问初级参与者的家庭大学机构后，讲习班以及通过谷歌环聊虚拟会议的机制，旨在提供持续的反馈在任期过程中。同时，这使高级教师能够更多地了解初级教师寻求终身职位的特定机构的终身职位要求，并就如何制作满足国家学术学科和地方大学一级终身职位要求的研究，教学和服务记录提出建议。

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.