Advancing Leaders in Inclusive Astronomy and STEM

自2001年以来，总部位于加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的科学家和工程师教育协会（ISEE）举办了一系列专业发展计划（PDP）研讨会。这些课程使科学、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，成为更好的教育者和导师，并学习包容性实践，这将有助于增加代表性不足群体在STEM中的参与。该奖项将继续这些活动，并将支持初步研究如何最好地扩大其影响，以及如何在其校友实施在讲习班中学到的策略时为他们提供支持。每年有四五百名新本科生间接受益于39名PDP新校友。目前，ISEE校友社区包括650多名专业人士，其中大多数人继续保持积极的联系，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加了这些项目，这有助于提供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)培养为包容性教学和指导做好准备的科学家、工程师和技术人员；2)推动ISEE校友成为公平和包容的领导者；3)发展能力和结构，使国家领导网络成为可能。这些目标将通过继续举办PDP研讨会和现有的指导项目来实现。他们还将制定机制，帮助这些项目的校友成为STEM教育的领导者。

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.