Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Participation for STEM Women of Color

历史悠久的黑人学院和大学本科课程将循证领导和教师专业发展确定为其优先事项之一，并致力于资助创新模式和方法，这些模式和方法将：扩大女性和代表不足的少数族裔在STEM的充分参与，改善STEM教育和各级教育工作者的发展，并增加多样化、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力的发展。在国家科学基金会的支持下，菲尔丁研究生院与STEM有色人种妇女协会合作，提议加强和实施STEM有色人种妇女秘密会议，将其作为一个扩大参与的讲习班系列，以促进其参与者干部为担任学术领导角色做准备。GPRA战略管理公司(GPRASMi)将作为实施拟议的秘密会议讲习班的协作组织伙伴。这一努力将促进战略协作，并提供获得领导力研究方面的正式研究生培训的机会。这一努力的总体目标是通过提高领导力发展经验的质量，增加STEM有色人种妇女在学术领导职位上的代表性。拟议的秘密会议讲习班将提高STEM有色人种女学院的形象，反过来，她们将构成一个强大的知识网络，通过有效的学术领导扩大参与。作为一个长期结果，拟议的有色人种女性领导力发展经验可能会培养出一批学术领袖，他们具有应对不断变化的高等教育需求所需的敏锐性，以及产生学术成功和更好的STEM事业成果的文化敏感性，特别是在代表性不足的少数群体中。因此，拟议的讲习班将超越参与者的领导能力，扩大到数千名代表不足的少数族裔学生，她们将与之互动。拟议的项目将加强有色人种妇女的领导力发展经验，她们为代表不足的少数族裔学生提供那种学术和心理社会支持，从而导致更好的STEM学习成果：1)举办以STEM有色人种妇女领导力发展为重点的扩大参与讲习班；以及2)提供机会，获得继续教育学分，作为获得STEM学术领导合法性和促进STEM学术领导所必需的资格证书。具体目标是：1)召开为期两天的扩大参与讲习班：STEM有色人种妇女国家秘密会议；2)为秘密会议参与者提供继续教育(CE)学分。该项目将有助于重新定义高等教育领导力，使之有意义地包括对少数族裔学生的学术和心理社会需求的认识、亲和力和敏感度，从而扩大参与。总体而言，这些努力预计将影响一个由数千名STEM高等教育改革者组成的网络，他们致力于使STEM教员多样化，以及更广泛的教职员工和学术管理人员，来自所有学科，他们致力于招聘和留住STEM有色人种女性教员。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program has identified evidence-based leadership and professional development of faculty as one of its priorities and is committed to funding innovative models and approaches that will: broaden the full participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM, improve STEM education and educator development at any level, and increase the development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce. With support from the National Science Foundation, Fielding Graduate University, in partnership with the Society of STEM Women of Color, Inc., proposes to enhance and implement the STEM Women of Color Conclave as a Broadening Participation Workshop series that will facilitate the preparation of a cadre of its participants for academic leadership roles. GPRA Strategic Management, Inc. (GPRASMi) will serve as the collaborative organizational partner in implementing the proposed Conclave Workshops. This effort will foster a strategic collaboration and provide access to formal postgraduate training in leadership studies. The overall goal of this effort is to increase the representation of STEM women of color in academic leadership positions by enhancing the quality of the leadership development experience. The proposed Conclave Workshops will heighten the profile of STEM women faculty of color who, in turn, will constitute a powerful knowledge network for broadening participation through effective academic leadership. As a long-term outcome, the proposed leadership development experience for women of color is likely to yield a cadre of academic leaders with the acumen needed to address the shifting demands of higher education, and the cultural sensitivity to yield academic success and better STEM career outcomes, particularly among underrepresented minorities. As such, the proposed Workshops will extend beyond the leadership capacity of its participants to the thousands of underrepresented minority students with whom they will interact.The proposed project will enhance the leadership development experience for women of color who provide the kind of academic and psychosocial support for underrepresented minority students that leads to better STEM learning outcomes by: 1) convening broadening participation workshops focused on leadership development for STEM women of color; and 2) providing access to opportunities to earn continuing education credits as credentials necessary for acquiring legitimacy in and contributing to STEM academic leadership. The specific objectives are: 1) to convene a two-day Broadening Participation Workshop: National Conclave for STEM Women of Color; and 2) to provide access to continuing education (CE) credits for Conclave participants. This project will contribute to redefining higher education leadership to meaningfully include an awareness of, affinity for, and sensitivity to the academic and psychosocial needs of underrepresented minority students, thereby broadening participation. Collectively, these efforts are expected to impact a network of thousands of STEM higher education reformers committed to diversifying STEM faculty, as well as a wider pool of faculty and academic administrators, from all disciplines, who are committed to recruiting and retaining STEM women faculty of color.