Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Participation for STEM Women of Color

“历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目”将以证据为基础的领导力和教师的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：扩大女性和代表性不足的少数民族在STEM领域的充分参与，改善STEM教育和教育工作者在任何层面的发展，并增加多元化，具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力的发展。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，菲尔丁研究生大学与STEM有色人种女性协会合作，提议加强和实施STEM有色人种女性秘密会议，作为一个扩大参与的研讨会系列，以促进其参与者干部为学术领导角色做好准备。GPRA战略管理公司（GPRASMi）将作为合作组织伙伴实施拟议的秘密会议研讨会。这一努力将促进战略合作，并提供参加领导研究方面正式研究生培训的机会。这项工作的总体目标是通过提高领导力发展经验的质量来增加STEM有色人种女性在学术领导职位上的代表性。提议的秘密会议研讨会将提高STEM女性有色人种教师的形象，反过来，她们将通过有效的学术领导，构成一个强大的知识网络，以扩大参与。从长期来看，针对有色人种女性的领导力发展经验很可能会产生一批学术领袖，他们具备应对高等教育不断变化的需求所需的敏锐度，以及获得学术成功和更好的STEM职业成果的文化敏感性，尤其是在未被充分代表的少数族裔中。因此，拟议的讲习班将超越其参与者的领导能力，扩展到数千名代表性不足的少数民族学生，他们将与这些学生互动。拟议的项目将加强有色人种女性的领导力发展经验，她们为代表性不足的少数民族学生提供学术和心理社会支持，从而获得更好的STEM学习成果：1)召开以有色人种女性领导力发展为重点的扩大参与研讨会；2)提供获得继续教育学分的机会，作为获得合法性和促进STEM学术领导所必需的证书。具体目标是：1)召开为期两天的扩大参与研讨会：有色人种STEM女性全国秘密会议；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，有意义地包括对代表性不足的少数民族学生的学术和社会心理需求的认识、亲和力和敏感性，从而扩大参与。总的来说，这些努力预计将影响一个由数千名致力于使STEM教师多样化的STEM高等教育改革者组成的网络，以及来自所有学科的更广泛的教师和学术管理人员，他们致力于招聘和留住STEM女性有色人种教师。

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.