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Assessing Institutional Assets, Vulnerabilities, and Synergies and using a STEM Mentoring Ecosystem Framework: A Multi-institution, Interdisciplinary Workshop

评估机构资产、脆弱性和协同作用并使用 STEM 指导生态系统框架：多机构、跨学科研讨会

基本信息

批准号：
2133544
负责人：
Beronda Montgomery
金额：
$ 9.8万
依托单位：
Michigan State University
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：
2021-07-15 至 2023-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2133544&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Assessing Institutional Assets Vulnerabilities Synergies

项目摘要

Many colleges and universities aspire to diversify their STEM student bodies and create more inclusive and equitable learning environments for the students. At the same time, many struggle with limited resources and less-than-optimal infrastructure. Using a system that integrates all components of an institutional STEM mentoring ecosystem can have greater potential for making substantive and lasting changes across a range of demographics. This project builds upon a recently-developed STEM-Mentoring Ecosystems (STEM-ME) framework that facilitates self-assessment of institutional strengths, vulnerabilities, synergies and disconnects related to mentoring. Given that many mentoring programs targeted at students, staff, or faculty are siloed in nature, an ecosystems approach will facilitate a more sustainable and effective infrastructure. The STEM-ME framework will facilitate the leveraging of resources, building of synergies and integration of best practices across a diverse and at times isolated set of institutional efforts. This project will convene workshops comprised of teams from multiple institutions who will engage in learning about and applying the STEM-ME framework to improve their local mentoring ecosystems. Based on discussions, each campus team will revise the STEM-ME materials to make them applicable to their local situations. Outcomes of the workshop will include new insights for campuses, new resource materials, and new knowledge about common assets and vulnerabilities across a range of institutional types.There is abundant extant research on barriers and outcomes of STEM mentoring at the individual relationship level, but less is known at the institutional and cross-institutional levels. A recent report on “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM” (2019) by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has brought increased attention to improving mentoring environments to retain STEM talent from all segments of the population. This proposal will pilot a study that uses a STEM-Mentoring Ecosystems (STEM-ME) framework to effect changes in institutional practice towards a more inclusive and equitable environment. Sessions will be convened to provide teams from several campuses opportunities to learn about and craft their institution-specific blueprint of the STEM-ME framework. The goals of this workshop are: (1) to improve the STEM mentoring ecosystems particularly for minoritized students across campus types; (2) to develop mechanisms (including a white paper and self-guided module) that helps campuses to assess their own campus infrastructure, identify connections/synergies, and strengthen their infrastructure for high-quality, inclusive STEM mentoring; (3) to assist participating campuses, and their leaders, begin this process and contribute to this process in a meaningful way; and, (4) to reflect back to stakeholders of STEM mentoring ecosystems where there are common vulnerabilities and areas of strength. The collaborative workshop will consist of two required sessions and an optional session. The first session will involve an introduction of the STEM-ME framework and mapping worksheet and multi-institutional team introductions. The second session involves sharing of campus-specific mentoring ecosystem maps and discussions of commonalities and differences between campuses. Finally, the optional third session will allow each team to have a one-on-one consulting session with one of the facilitators. The broader impacts of the proposal include the creation of tools (e.g. STEM-ME mapping worksheet, white paper, institutional action plans) that will help campuses enhance their STEM mentoring infrastructure. Multiple graduate and undergraduate students will gain research training on organizational change in STEM. Undergraduate and graduate students from racially minoritized backgrounds on multiple campuses will benefit from improved STEM mentoring infrastructure. This award is supported by the Divisions of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). Environmental Biology (DEB), and Biological Infrastructure (DBI) within the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE).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.

许多学院和大学渴望使他们的STEM学生群体多样化，并为学生创造更具包容性和公平的学习环境。与此同时，许多国家面临着资源有限和基础设施不佳的问题。使用一个集成了机构STEM辅导生态系统所有组件的系统，可以在一系列人口统计数据中产生实质性和持久性的变化。该项目建立在最近开发的STEM辅导生态系统（STEM-ME）框架的基础上，该框架有助于自我评估与辅导有关的机构优势，脆弱性，协同作用和脱节。鉴于许多针对学生，员工或教师的辅导计划在本质上是孤立的，生态系统方法将促进更可持续和有效的基础设施。科学、技术、工程和数学框架将促进利用资源，建立协同作用，并整合各种不同的、有时是孤立的机构努力的最佳做法。该项目将召开由来自多个机构的团队组成的研讨会，他们将参与学习和应用STEM-ME框架，以改善当地的辅导生态系统。根据讨论，每个校园团队将修改STEM-ME材料，使其适用于当地情况。研讨会的成果将包括对校园的新见解，新的资源材料，以及关于一系列机构类型的共同资产和脆弱性的新知识。关于STEM辅导在个人关系层面的障碍和成果，现有的研究很多，但在机构和跨机构层面的研究较少。美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院最近发布的一份关于“有效指导STEM的科学”（2019年）的报告，使人们更加关注改善指导环境，以留住来自各阶层的STEM人才。该提案将试行一项研究，该研究使用STEM指导生态系统（STEM-ME）框架，以实现机构实践的变化，从而实现更具包容性和公平的环境。会议将召开，以提供来自几个校区的团队有机会了解和制作他们的STEM-ME框架的机构特定蓝图。本次研讨会的目标是：（1）改善STEM指导生态系统，特别是针对不同校园类型的少数民族学生;（2）制定机制，（包括白色文件和自我指导模块），帮助校园评估自己的校园基础设施，确定连接/协同作用，并加强其基础设施，以提供高质量，包容性的STEM指导;（3）协助参与校园及其领导者，开始这一进程，并以有意义的方式为这一进程做出贡献;（4）向STEM辅导生态系统的利益相关者反映，其中存在共同的脆弱性和优势领域。合作研讨会将包括两次必修会议和一次选修会议。第一次会议将介绍STEM-ME框架和映射工作表以及多机构团队介绍。第二部分是分享校园特定的辅导生态系统地图，并讨论校园之间的共性和差异。最后，可选的第三次会议将允许每个团队与其中一位主持人进行一对一的咨询会议。该提案的更广泛影响包括创建工具（例如STEM-ME映射工作表，白色纸，机构行动计划），这将有助于校园加强其STEM指导基础设施。多名研究生和本科生将获得关于STEM组织变革的研究培训。来自多个校区的种族少数民族背景的本科生和研究生将受益于改进的STEM指导基础设施。该奖项由分子和细胞生物科学（MCB），综合有机系统（IOS）部门支持。环境生物学（DEB）和生物基础设施（DBI）在生物科学理事会（BIO）和多学科活动办公室在理事会社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是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的支持。