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

这项提议将资助一系列研讨会，帮助计算机科学初级教师学习成为更有效的教育工作者和研究人员。初级教员经常遇到在教学、研究、筹款和服务之间平衡时间和精力投入的困难。其结果是，最初有前途的初级教员可能会离开学术界，加剧全国计算机科学教员短缺的局面，或者留下来发挥次优的学术作用。对于计算机界代表性不足的群体来说，这些问题尤其紧迫，他们往往缺乏榜样和导师，他们能够认同自己的经历，并帮助指导他们完成成功的学术生涯。讲习班将利用一个虚构的案例研究，引发关于有效战略的讨论，以应对所谓的“冒名顶替者综合症”等具体挑战，并建立一系列成就，以支持赢得终身教职--即永久大学职位。(在大多数大学，没有获得终身教职的初级教员必须离职。)这些研讨会对参与终身教职决策过程的初级教员和高级教员都很有价值。这些研讨会的好处包括更好地为初级教师的终身教职做好准备，特别是代表人数不足的群体的成员；帮助在终身教职委员会任职的教师做出公正的决定；以及增加计算机科学领域终身教员的多样性。这项提议将支持三个教师发展研讨会，每个研讨会都在一个大型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轨道上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。它还有助于资深教员更好地意识到挑战，这些挑战对计算机科学中代表性不足的群体成员产生了不成比例的影响。研讨会将以朗读一部关于一个虚构的终身教职案例的短剧开始。该剧之前在前两次科学会议上的展示引发了极好的讨论和反馈，证明了它作为教育媒体的有效性。随后将举行为期一天的一系列讨论和小组讨论，主题包括出版、权力失衡、冒名顶替者综合症以及如何处理敌意同事等。研讨会结束后，将准备一份指南，使研讨会能够很容易地全部或部分复制。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.