A Faculty-Development Workshop for Junior Faculty in the Sciences and Engineering

科学与工程青年教师发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1844528
• 负责人: Jennifer Blain Christen
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844528&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Faculty; Development; Workshop; Junior; Sciences

This proposal will fund a series of workshops to help computer science junior faculty learn to become more effective educators and researchers. Junior faculty often encounter difficulties in balancing their investment of time and energy among teaching, research, fundraising, and service. As a result, initially promising junior faculty may leave academia, exacerbating the national shortage of faculty in computer science, or remain and perform sub-optimally in their academic roles. These problems are particular pressing for members of underrepresented groups in computing, who often lack role models and mentors who can identify with their experiences and help guide them through the steps of building a successful academic career. The workshops will use a fictionalized case-study to spark discussion of effective strategies for dealing with specific challenges such as so-called "imposter syndrome" and building a portfolio of accomplishments to support winning tenure - that is, a permanent university position. (At most universities, junior faculty who do not win tenure must leave their positions.) The workshops will be valuable both for junior faculty and more senior faculty who are involved in the process of making decisions on tenure. Benefits of the workshops include better preparing junior faculty for tenure, especially members of underrepresented groups; helping faculty serving on tenure committees to make unbiased decisions; and increasing the diversity of tenured faculty in computer science.Three faculty development workshops, each at a major computer science conference, will be supported by this proposal. The workshops provides junior faculty with a better understanding of the potential challenges and pitfalls they may encounter in a tenure track position, and strategies for effectively navigating the tenure process. It also helps senior faculty to be more aware of challenges that disproportionately impact members of groups underrepresented in computer science. The workshops will begin with the reading of a short play about a fictional tenure case. Previous presentations of the play at two previous science conferences sparked excellent discussions and feedback, demonstrating its effectiveness as a educational medium. The will be followed by a day-long series of discussions and panels on topics such as publishing, power imbalance, imposter syndrome, and dealing with hostile colleagues. After the conclusion of the workshops, a guide will be prepared that will enable the workshop to be easily replicated in whole or in part.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该提案将资助一系列研讨会，以帮助计算机科学初级教师学习成为更有效的教育者和研究者。初级教师在平衡教学、研究、筹款和服务之间的时间和精力投入方面经常遇到困难。因此，最初有前途的初级教师可能离开学术界，加剧了全国计算机科学教师的短缺，或者留下来，在他们的学术角色中表现不佳。这些问题对计算机领域代表性不足的群体的成员来说尤其紧迫，他们往往缺乏榜样和导师，这些人可以认同他们的经历，并帮助指导他们走过建立成功学术生涯的各个步骤。这些研讨会将使用一个虚构的案例研究来引发关于有效策略的讨论，以应对诸如所谓的“冒名顶替综合症”等具体挑战，并建立一个成就组合来支持赢得终身教职——即一个永久的大学职位。（在大多数大学，没有获得终身职位的初级教员必须离职。）对于参与终身教职决策过程的初级教师和高级教师来说，这些研讨会都很有价值。讲习班的好处包括：更好地为初级教员，特别是代表性不足的群体的成员准备终身教职；帮助任职于终身教职委员会的教员做出公正的决定；增加计算机科学领域终身教职人员的多样性。本提案将支持三个教师发展研讨会，每个研讨会将在一个主要的计算机科学会议上举行。这些研讨会让初级教师更好地了解他们在终身教职中可能遇到的潜在挑战和陷阱，以及有效驾驭终身教职过程的策略。它还有助于高级教师更加了解挑战，这些挑战对计算机科学中代表性不足的群体的成员产生了不成比例的影响。研讨会将以阅读一个虚构的终身教职案例的短剧开始。在之前的两次科学会议上，该剧的介绍引发了精彩的讨论和反馈，证明了它作为一种教育媒介的有效性。随后将进行为期一天的一系列讨论和小组讨论，主题包括出版、权力不平衡、冒名顶替综合症以及如何应对敌对的同事。讲习班结束后，将编写一份指南，使讲习班能够很容易地全部或部分复制。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。