Collaborative Proposal: Broadening Participation for STEM Women of Color

菲尔丁研究生大学与STEM有色人种妇女协会合作，建议加强和实施STEM有色人种女性秘密会议作为一个扩大参与研讨会系列，这将有助于其参与者的干部学术领导角色的准备。GPRA战略管理公司（GPRASMi）将作为执行拟议的秘密会议讲习班的合作组织伙伴。这一努力将促进战略合作，并提供获得领导力研究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，增加有色人种STEM女性在学术领导职位中的代表性。拟议的秘密会议研讨会将提高有色人种STEM女教师的形象，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。作为一个长期的结果，为有色人种女性提出的领导力发展经验可能会产生一批学术领导者，他们具有解决高等教育不断变化的需求所需的敏锐性，以及产生学术成功和更好的STEM职业成果的文化敏感性，特别是在代表性不足的少数民族中。 因此，拟议的研讨会将超越其参与者的领导能力，与他们互动的数千名代表性不足的少数民族学生。拟议的项目将加强有色人种妇女的领导力发展经验，她们为代表性不足的少数民族学生提供学术和心理支持，从而获得更好的STEM学习成果：1）召开扩大参与研讨会，重点是有色人种STEM女性的领导力发展; 2）提供获得继续教育学分的机会，作为获得STEM学术领导力合法性和贡献所需的证书。具体目标是：1）召开为期两天的扩大参与研讨会：全国有色人种STEM女性秘密会议; 2）为秘密会议参与者提供继续教育（CE）学分。这一项目将有助于重新界定高等教育的领导作用，使其有意义地包括对代表性不足的少数民族学生的学术和心理社会需求的认识、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数千名致力于使STEM教师多样化的STEM高等教育改革者的网络，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有色人种的STEM女性教师。

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.