Advancing Leaders in Inclusive Astronomy and STEM

推动包容性天文学和 STEM 领域的领导者

• 批准号: 1643290
• 负责人: Lisa Hunter
• 金额: $ 44.31万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Leaders; Inclusive; Astronomy; STEM

Since 2001, the Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE), headquartered at the University of California Santa Cruz, has conducted a series of Professional Development Program (PDP) workshops. These prepare Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals, primarily graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to become better educators and mentors and to learn inclusive practices that will help increase the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM. This award will continue these activities and will support preliminary studies into how best to expand their impact and how to provide support for their alumni as they implement the strategies learned in the workshops. Four to five hundred new undergraduates per year indirectly benefit from the 39 new PDP alumni each year. The current community of ISEE alumni includes over 650 professionals, most of whom continue to stay in active contact with each other and many of whom seek further training opportunities. Observatory and industry professionals also participate in these programs, which help provide a more highly-trained and diverse workforce, particularly in Hawaii. The goals of this project are to expand ISEE's impact by: 1) advancing scientists, engineers, and technologists prepared for inclusive teaching and mentoring; 2) advancing ISEE alumni as leaders in equity and inclusion; and 3) developing capacity and structure to enablea national leadership network. These will be achieved by continuing the PDP workshops and the mentoring programs already in place. They will also develop mechanisms to assist the alumni of these programs as they become leaders in STEM education.

自2001年以来，总部设在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的科学家与工程师教育者研究所(ISEE)举办了一系列职业发展计划(PDP)研讨会。这些培训使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业人员，主要是研究生和博士后研究人员，成为更好的教育工作者和导师，并学习包容性做法，以帮助代表不足的群体更多地参与STEM。该奖项将继续这些活动，并将支持关于如何最好地扩大其影响以及如何在其校友实施讲习班所学战略的过程中为他们提供支持的初步研究。每年有400到500名新本科生间接受益于每年39名PDP校友。目前的ISEE校友社区包括650多名专业人员，他们中的大多数人继续保持着积极的联系，其中许多人寻求进一步的培训机会。天文台和行业专业人士也参与了这些计划，这些计划有助于提供更训练有素和多样化的劳动力，特别是在夏威夷。该项目的目标是通过以下方式扩大ISEE的影响：1)促进科学家、工程师和技术人员为全纳教学和指导做好准备；2)促进ISEE校友成为公平和包容方面的领导者；以及3)发展能力和结构，使其能够成为国家领导网络。这些将通过继续PDP讲习班和已经实施的指导方案来实现。他们还将建立机制，帮助这些项目的校友成为STEM教育的领导者。