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HBCUs的本科STEM教育和研究的质量，以扩大国家STEM劳动力的参与。 因此，HBCU-UP为主要研究人员提供支持，这些主要研究人员致力于通过一些优先领域满足国家对STEM人才的不断增长的需求，包括提高STEM教师的研究能力以及基于证据的领导力和教师的专业发展。 菲尔丁研究生大学与GPRA战略管理公司合作，解决了HBCU-UP的支持领导和HBCU教师的专业发展的优先事项。 更具体地说，PI的项目旨在建立一个领导力计划，支持HBCU和HSI的有色人种妇女在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域。该项目（1）产生了领导力发展课程，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;（3）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）解决了国家领导人的迫切需要，从而更好地扩大参与成果。 它侧重于培养出版习惯，文化上真实的领导力，以及幸福的来源，为种族和性别的领导者。 该项目利用CHAT（文化历史活动理论）评估框架来研究个体参与者领导自我效能的变化，同时研究参与者集体领导STEM高等教育改革的能力增强。 它将建立一个领导能力发展模式，加强传统领导能力培训做法的规范和传统，以扩大对高等教育行政队伍的参与。 该项目不仅实施了一种新颖的领导力发展方法，满足了有色人种STEM女性的需求，而且还在其自身的需求水平上面对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，PI将创建一个新的领导力发展模式，轻松跨越并渗透主流STEM高等教育的规范和传统-推进和加速我们国家扩大参与议程，以取得前所未有的成功。该项目部分得到了NSF的改善本科STEM教育的支持：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），旨在加强本科STEM教育和建立HSI的能力。 NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划提供了额外的资金。 AGEP支持研究和合作伙伴关系，以增加非裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民的STEM教师数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.