A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments

生物技术中基于工作的学习的协作方法：建立包容性的实验室环境

• 批准号: 2055309
• 负责人: James Lewis
• 金额: $ 27.56万
• 依托单位: City College of San Francisco
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Approach; Work; Based; Learning

There is a renewed sense of urgency to develop a more diverse workforce in STEM-related fields. This project focuses on community college students from groups that are not yet equitably represented in STEM. These communities have also been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most workforce interventions to prepare students for technical positions have been based on the premise that the students simply need targeted skill training and tips on behavioral norms to be successful in these workplace cultures. This “student deficit” model puts the burden on the newcomer to navigate a work environment that is often inherently biased against people of color, women, and individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. However, as leading-edge organizations are recognizing the value of diversity, they are also realizing that they have a role to play in establishing an inclusive workplace culture. This project aims to foster the professional development of students, faculty, industry managers, and academic researchers in inclusive workplace practices. The project expects that these practices can seed true cultural change and prepare a more diverse, inclusive, and productive United States biotechnology workforce.This project at City College of San Francisco is a collaboration with the Office of Career and Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco. Its overall goal is to build more inclusive workplace environments for community college students pursuing biotechnology education and careers. The project plans to address issues of diversity in the scientific workforce by 1) teaching industry managers and academic researchers practical ways to supervise, mentor and train future scientists inclusively and effectively, and 2) helping community college students and their instructors navigate the scientific workplace to identify inclusive workplaces and navigate barriers to inclusivity. It builds on prior work that has led to the development of a published framework for inclusive workplace practices in research laboratories, a comprehensive inclusive academic mentor and intern training, and a guided internship program that includes formative assessments and coaching. In collaboration with the California Life Sciences Institute, an organization representing hundreds of biotechnology companies, the project will invest significant resources in developing new frameworks, tools, and curriculum tailored to the needs of the biotechnology industry. Additionally, the project seeks to disseminate the trainings to other community colleges and academic research institutions. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy. 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.

在STEM相关领域发展更加多样化的劳动力有了新的紧迫感。该项目的重点是社区大学的学生，这些学生来自STEM中尚未得到公平代表的群体。 该等社区亦受到COVID-19疫情的不成比例影响。 大多数为学生准备技术职位的劳动力干预措施都是基于这样一个前提，即学生只需要有针对性的技能培训和行为规范方面的提示，就可以在这些工作场所文化中取得成功。这种“学生赤字”模式给新人带来了负担，他们需要在一个通常对有色人种、女性和来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的个人存在固有偏见的工作环境中工作。然而，随着领先组织认识到多样性的价值，它们也意识到它们在建立包容性工作场所文化方面可以发挥作用。该项目旨在促进学生，教师，行业经理和学术研究人员在包容性工作场所实践的专业发展。 该项目期望这些做法能够促成真正的文化变革，并培养一支更加多样化、包容性和生产力更高的美国生物技术工作队伍。旧金山弗朗西斯科的这一项目是与加州大学旧金山弗朗西斯科职业和专业发展办公室合作开展的。 它的总体目标是为社区学院学生追求生物技术教育和职业建立更具包容性的工作环境。该项目计划通过以下方式解决科学劳动力的多样性问题：1）教授行业管理人员和学术研究人员以包容性和有效性的方式监督，指导和培训未来科学家的实用方法，以及2）帮助社区大学学生及其教师在科学工作场所中导航，以确定包容性的工作场所并克服包容性的障碍。它建立在以前的工作，导致了一个出版的框架，包容性的工作场所的做法在研究实验室，一个全面的包容性学术导师和实习生培训，并指导实习计划，包括形成性评估和辅导的发展。该项目将与代表数百家生物技术公司的加州生命科学研究所合作，投入大量资源开发适合生物技术行业需求的新框架、工具和课程。此外，该项目还寻求向其他社区学院和学术研究机构传播培训。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了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。