A Collaborative Leadership Development Workshop for Emerging Leaders in Science and Society; Bainbridge Island, WA - Jaunuary 14-18, 2016

复杂的社会挑战需要综合许多学科的专业知识，并在多个机构之间进行合作。培养学科专家的博士研究生项目通常不会提供在更广泛的背景下应用狭隘专业知识的背景或培训。传统研究生教育计划的这种局限性创造了一个机会，可以设计计划，让博士生为各种职业做好准备，在这些职业中，需要STEM专业知识才能在广泛而不是高度专业化的背景下工作。为了应对这种需求和机遇，美国科学促进会(AAAS)正在为研究生试行一种新的专业发展模式，名为新兴科学与社会领导者(ELISS)，通过从多个校区和学科招募研究生参加为期15个月的服务领导力课程，建立一个协作的STEM领导者网络。这些学生与导师和社区领袖合作，在大学和更广泛的社区之间建立新的联系，并将相关研究应用于及时的挑战。该项目正在支持2016 Eliss协作领导力研讨会，该研讨会将介绍协作解决跨学科、跨机构和跨地域的问题所需的知识、技能和态度。该讲习班将召集来自7个校区的22名研究生参加为期4.5天的讲习班，在规划“智囊团”项目的背景下进行能力建设，该项目将把相关研究应用于各自社区面临的紧迫挑战。该网络的材料和结果将与Eliss导师网络在参与校园内共享，并通过AAAS网络共享，以便更广泛地向研究生提供协作领导能力培训。

Complex societal challenges require synthesis of expertise from many academic disciplines and collaboration across multiple institutions. Graduate Ph.D. programs that develop disciplinary experts do not generally provide the context or training for applying narrow expertise in a broader context. This limitation of traditional graduate education programs has created an opportunity to devise programs to prepare PhD students for a range of careers in which STEM expertise is needed for working in broad rather than highly specialized contexts. To address this need and opportunity, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is piloting a novel model of professional development for graduate students called Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS), building a network of collaborative STEM leaders by recruiting graduate students from multiple campuses and disciplines to participate in a 15-month service leadership program. These students collaborate with mentors and community leaders to catalyze new connections between the university and broader community and bring relevant research to bear on a timely challenge. This project is supporting the 2016 ELISS Collaborative Leadership Workshop that will introduce the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for collaborative approaches to problems that cross disciplines, institutions, and geographies. This workshop will convene 22 graduate students from seven campuses for a 4.5-day workshop that will build capacity in the context of planning a "think tank" project that will bring relevant research to bear on pressing challenges in their communities. Materials and results of the network will be shared with an ELISS mentor network at participating campuses and through the AAAS network to make collaborative leadership training available to graduate students more broadly.