Faculty Tenure and Promotion Workshop Series

在一个日益由科学进步和技术变革驱动的经济中，支持科学进步、国民健康和普遍繁荣符合我们的国家利益。学院和大学正在不断适应社会变化和新兴的学术研究，这为我们提供有效的STEM学习环境提供了信息。与教师晋升和终身教职相关的制度政策可以作为激励，鼓励教职员工参与外展和公众参与等活动，使用循证教学和指导实践，开发和提供创造性的跨学科或跨学科课程，创造新的方式，扩大代表不足的群体对科学的参与，并制定具体战略，在课程和计划中反映趋同的原则。美国国家科学院、工程和医学研究院将组织和主办一次由关键学者和利益相关者组成的全国性会议。这次聚会旨在吸收代表STEM教学人员的演讲者和参与者，包括各种类型的高等教育机构的临时教职员工。这次聚会将由一个由国家科学院组成的特设委员会策划，该委员会在科学和工程、晋升和终身教职政策和实践以及高等教育研究和教学方面具有经验和专业知识。会议将召集50-75名利益攸关方讨论问题和研究，并确定创建旨在审查新的晋升和终身教职政策和做法的校园对话的战略。这次聚会旨在为2019年开始的国家科学院关于这一主题的重大共识研究提供跳板。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。

It is in our national interest to support the advancement of scientific progress, national health, and general prosperity in an economy increasingly driven by scientific advancement and technological change. Colleges and universities are engaged in an ongoing process of adapting to societal changes and emerging scholarship that inform the ways we provide effective STEM learning environments. Institutional policies relating to faculty promotion and tenure can serve as incentives for faculty members to participate in activities such as outreach and public engagement, use evidence-based teaching and mentoring practices, develop and offer creative interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary coursework, create novel ways to broaden participation in science among underrepresented groups, and develop specific strategies for reflecting the principles of convergence in courses and programs.The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and host a national convocation of key scholars and stakeholders. The gathering is designed to incorporate speakers and participants that represent a wide range of STEM instructional faculty, including contingent faculty, at a range of higher education institutional types. The gathering will be planned by an ad hoc committee of the National Academies with experience and expertise in science and engineering, promotion and tenure policies and practices, and higher education research and teaching. The convocation will bring together 50-75 stakeholders to discuss the issues and research and to determine strategies for creating campus-based conversations aimed at examining new promotion and tenure policies and practices. The gathering is designed to serve as a springboard for a major National Academies consensus study of this topic starting in 2019.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.