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和跨多个机构的合作。培养学科专家的研究生博士项目通常不提供在更广泛的背景下应用狭窄专业知识的背景或培训。传统研究生教育项目的这一局限性创造了一个机会，可以设计一些项目来为博士学生的一系列职业做好准备，在这些职业中，STEM专业知识需要在广泛而不是高度专业化的环境中工作。为了解决这一需求和机遇，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“科学与社会新兴领袖”（ELISS），通过招募来自多个校园和学科的研究生参加一个为期15个月的服务领导项目，建立一个合作STEM领袖网络。这些学生与导师和社区领袖合作，促进大学与更广泛的社区之间的新联系，并将相关研究及时应对挑战。该项目支持2016年ELISS协作领导力研讨会，该研讨会将介绍跨学科、机构和地域协作解决问题所需的知识、技能和态度。本次研讨会将召集来自7所大学的22名研究生参加为期4.5天的研讨会，在规划一个“智库”项目的背景下建立能力，该项目将把相关研究带到他们社区面临的紧迫挑战中。网络的材料和结果将与参与校园的ELISS导师网络共享，并通过AAAS网络将协作领导力培训更广泛地提供给研究生。

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.