PLUS ME: A Novel Professional Development Approach for HBCU STEM Faculty

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科课程(HBCU-UP)旨在提高HBCU本科生STEM教育和研究的质量，以扩大全国STEM劳动力的参与。因此，HBCU-UP为首席研究人员提供支持，他们致力于通过一系列优先领域满足国家对STEM人才的日益增长的需求，包括提高STEM教师的研究能力，以及教师的循证领导和专业发展。菲尔丁研究生院与GPRA战略管理公司合作，解决了HBCU-UP支持HBCU教师领导力和专业发展的优先事项。更具体地说，PIS的项目旨在建立一个领导力课程，支持HBCU和HSI在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的有色人种女性。该项目(1)产生一个领导力发展课程，该课程关注领导力发展的预期变化；(2)为不同的学术STEM领导者创造一个安全、勇敢的领导力发展空间；以及(3)解决国家对领导力的需求，从而产生更好的扩大参与的结果。它的重点是为种族和性别交叉点的领导人培养出版习惯、具有文化真实性的领导力和幸福的来源。该项目利用CHAT(文化-历史活动理论)评估框架，研究个别参与者领导者自我效能的变化，同时考察参与者集体领导STEM高等教育改革的能力增强情况。它将创建一种领导能力发展模式，加强传统领导能力培训做法的规范和传统，以扩大高等教育行政人员的参与。该项目不仅实施了一种新颖的领导力培养方法，在STEM有色人种女性的需求层面上满足了她们的需求，而且还在STEM高等教育自身的需求层面上面对着STEM高等教育的总体生态系统。通过考虑实施安全、勇敢的空间，PIS将创建一种新的领导力发展模式，轻松地交叉并渗透到主流STEM高等教育的规范和传统中-推动并加速我国扩大参与议程，使之达到前所未有的成功水平。该项目部分得到了NSF改善本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持，该计划旨在加强HSI的本科生STEM教育和能力建设。NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授项目(AGEP)提供了额外的资金。AGEP支持研究和合作伙伴关系，以增加STEM的非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民的教师数量。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) is designed to enhance the quality of both undergraduate STEM education and research at HBCUs to broaden participation in the nation's STEM workforce. As such, HBCU-UP provides support to principal investigators who are committed to meeting the nation's accelerating demands for STEM talent through a number of priority areas, including, increased research capacity of STEM faculty and evidence-based leadership and professional development of faculty. Fielding Graduate University, in collaboration with GPRA Strategic Management, Inc., addresses the HBCU-UP’s priority of supporting leadership and professional development of HBCU faculty. More specifically, the PIs’ project seeks to establish a leadership program that supports HBCU and HSI women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.The project (1) gives rise to a leadership development curriculum that attends to the projected changes in leadership development; (2) generates a safe, brave leadership development space for diverse academic STEM leaders; and (3) addresses a national imperative for leadership that gives rise to better broadening participation outcomes. It focuses on nurturing publishing habits, culturally authentic leadership, and sources of wellbeing, for leaders at the intersection of race and gender. The project utilizes a CHAT (Cultural-Historic Activity Theory) evaluative framework to study changes in leader self-efficacy in individual participants while examining enhanced capacity of participants to collectively lead reform in STEM higher education. It will create a leadership development model that will enhance the norms and traditions of conventional leadership training practices to effect broadening participation in the administrative ranks of higher education. This project not only implements a novel leadership development approach that meets STEM women of color at their level of need, but it also confronts the overarching ecosystem of STEM higher education at its own level of need. By considering implementation of safe, brave spaces, the PIs will create a novel leadership development model that easily crosses into and permeates the norms and traditions of mainstream STEM higher education – advancing and accelerating our nation’s broadening participation agenda to unprecedented levels of success.This project is supported in part by the NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), that aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Additional funding was provided by the NSF’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. AGEP supports research and collaborative partnerships to increase the number of faculty in STEM who are African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders.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.