Preparing Future Minority Faculty for the Professoriate

北卡罗来纳农业技术州立大学准备未来少数族裔教师项目是一个为期三年的项目，旨在开发和实施网络改进社区(NIC)，并解决在工程领域担任教师职位的代表不足的少数族裔扩大参与的问题。来自代表性不足的群体的教职员工比例很小，他们在美国的学院和大学担任职位，特别是在与科学、技术、工程和数学相关的领域。为了迎接这一挑战，该项目制定了战略、培训材料和结构化的指导计划，以提高有意成为工程、工程技术和科学终身教职的研究生和博士后研究员的能力。参与该项目将使研究生和博士后研究员成为更有效的教职员工。重点放在学员在开始他们的职业生涯之前，在教学、研究和服务领域的发展。网络改进社区将历史上的黑人学院和大学与少数族裔服务机构、研究人员、从业者、行业合作伙伴、社区利益相关者、学区和指导组织组成的联盟聚集在一起。该社区将共同努力，开发一种模式，全面支持对代表不足的少数群体进行指导和培训，使其成为有效的教师。该项目的目标是：1)实施以证据为基础的综合专业发展模式；2)培训研究生有效地适应研究生和博士后培训过程以及成功地在工程学教授职位上取得职业所需的核心能力技能；3)合作、促进和规划活动，以加强和补充HBCU和MSI联盟的现有努力，以实现增加未被充分代表的少数族裔在教授职位中的代表性和准备的共同目标。将采用配对分组的准实验研究设计来检验项目的有效性。

The Preparing Future Minority Faculty project at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a three-year project to develop and implement a networked improvement community (NIC) and address broadening the participation of underrepresented minorities holding faculty positions in engineering. There is a disproportionately small number of faculty members from underrepresented groups who hold positions in US colleges and universities, particularly in fields related to science, technology, engineering, and math. To meet this challenge, the project develops strategies, training materials, and a structured mentoring program to increase the capability of graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows who intend to become tenure track faculty members in engineering, engineering technology, and the sciences. Participation in the project will enable graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows to become more effective faculty members. An emphasis is placed on the development of participant's portfolio in the areas of teaching, research, and service well in advance of beginning their career. The network improvement community brings together an alliance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions, researchers, practitioners, industry partners, community stakeholders, school districts, and mentoring organizations. Working together the community will develop a model to comprehensively support the mentoring and training of underrepresented minorities to become effective faculty. The goals of the project are to: 1) implement an evidence-based comprehensive professional development model; 2) train graduate students in the core competency skills needed to effectively navigate the graduate and postdoctoral training process and to successfully achieve careers in the engineering professoriate; and 3) collaborate, promote, and plan activities to enhance and complement existing efforts of an alliance of HBCUs and MSIs to achieve the common goal of increasing the representation and preparation of underrepresented minorities in the professoriate. A quasi-experimental research design with matched groups will be used to the effectiveness of the project.