Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy

网络基础设施领导力学院讲习班的目标是培养能够塑造国家网络基础设施议程的新一代国家网络基础设施(CI)领导人，以促进科学的进步，科学在很大程度上越来越依赖于CI提供的先进数字能力。实现这一目标的机制是在即将退休或最近退休的高级CI领导者和职业生涯中期新兴的CI领导者之间建立指导关系。科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育、研究、开发和商业的一个迅速增长的部分是计算和/或数据密集型的，因此依赖于CI。CI劳动力管道有几个阶段，随着婴儿潮一代的退休，最重要的CI高级领导者之一正在迅速缩小。这种外流对新兴的计算和数据密集型研究界构成了重大挑战，这在很大程度上依赖于CI高级领导人不仅要监督CI的设计、开发、实施和促进，而且还要在当地，特别是在全国范围内，塑造CI研究生态系统和议程。在这种专业知识流失中生存下来的关键是在这些专业知识不可挽回地丢失之前，尽可能多地获取这些专业知识。在传播与信息高级领导人和职业生涯中期新兴的传播与信息领导人之间建立指导关系是非常宝贵的，因为这种关系不仅能够促进知识、经验和智慧的转移，而且有助于巩固新出现的传播与信息领导人的能力，即使后者退休后，他们也能够继续利用传播与信息高级领导人的专业知识。到目前为止，人们几乎没有把重点放在管道的高级端。CI领导力学院研讨会旨在通过阻止CI议程/生态系统/社区专业知识的外流来解决这一差距。网络基础设施领导力学院研讨会采取召集高级CI领导者(其中许多人已接近退休或最近退休)和新兴的职业生涯中期CI领导者的方法，以实现以下目标：(1)将知识、经验，特别是智慧从高级CI领导者转移到新兴CI领导者，以使新兴CI领导者能够塑造国家研究CI版图。(2)在高级CI领导者和新兴CI领导者之间建立指导关系，以促进长期的专业发展。(3)在新出现的传播和信息领导人之间建立同行指导关系，以便使他们为国家领导做好准备和定位，因为传播和信息高级领导人减少了他们的日常参与。这一讲习班进程的重要组成部分包括：(A)资深和新兴的CI领导者就与国家研究直接相关的主题编写的白皮书CI生态系统/社区是导师配对的宝贵组成部分，帮助资深和新兴的CI领导者相互理解。(B)透视小组提供研究资助机构、产业界和研究人员等利益攸关方的观点。(C)传播与信息部门高级领导人就他们的经验进行的简短谈话，以及传播与信息部门高级领导人与职业生涯中期新兴领导人之间的座谈，旨在建立专业和个人联系。该讲习班的重点是来自传播权领导层传统上任职人数不足的人群的新兴传播权领导人，包括(A)妇女、(B)任职人数不足的少数群体、(C)少数群体服务机构、(D)非授予博士学位的机构和(E)EPSCoR辖区内的机构。

The Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy workshop's objective is to prepare a new generation of national Cyberinfrastructure (CI) leaders who can shape the national CI agenda, in order to promote the progress of science, which depend heavily and increasingly on the advanced digital capabilities that CI provides. The mechanism for accomplishing this goal is establishing mentoring relationships between senior CI leaders who are nearing retirement or recently retired, and emerging midcareer CI leaders. A mushrooming fraction of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, research, development and commerce is computing- and/or data-intensive, and therefore depends on CI. The CI workforce pipeline has several stages, and one of the most vital, senior CI leaders, is rapidly narrowing as Baby Boomers retire. This outmigration presents a significant challenge to the burgeoning computing- and data-intensive research community, which depends heavily on senior CI leaders not only to oversee CI design, development, implementation and facilitation, but also to shape the research CI ecosystem and agenda, both locally at their own institutions and especially nationally. Crucial to surviving this expertise drain is capturing as much of that expertise as possible, before it is irretrievably lost. Establishing mentoring relationships between senior CI leaders and emerging midcareer CI leaders is invaluable, because such relationships not only enable the transfer of knowledge, experience and wisdom, but also serve to solidify the ability of emerging CI leaders to continue to draw on the expertise of senior CI leaders even after the latter retire. To date, little emphasis has been placed on the senior end of the pipeline. The CI Leadership Academy workshop's intends to address this gap, by stanching the outflow of CI agenda/ecosystem/community expertise.The Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy workshop takes the approach of convening a combination of senior CI leaders, many of whom are nearing retirement or have recently retired, and emerging midcareer CI leaders, to meet the following objectives: (1) Transfer knowledge, experience and especially wisdom from senior CI leaders to emerging CI leaders, in order to enable emerging CI leaders to shape the national research CI landscape. (2) Initiate mentoring relationships between senior CI leaders and emerging CI leaders, in order to foster longer term professional development. (3) Establish peer mentoring relationships among emerging CI leaders, in order to prepare and position them for national leadership, as senior CI leaders reduce their day to day engagement. Important components of this workshop's process include: (a) White papers from the senior and emerging CI leaders on topics directly relevant to the national research CI ecosystem/community are a valuable component in mentorship matchmaking, by helping senior and emerging CI leaders to understand each other. (b) Perspective panels offer the viewpoints of stakeholders such as research funding agencies, industry, and researcher constituencies. (c) Brief talks by senior CI leaders on their experiences, and sit-downs between senior CI leaders and emerging midcareer leaders, are designed to establish both professional and personal linkages. This workshop includes a focus on emerging CI leaders from populations that have traditionally been underrepresented in CI leadership, including (a) women, (b) underrepresented minorities, (c) Minority Serving Institutions, (d) non-PhD-granting institutions, and (e) institutions in EPSCoR jurisdictions.