Workshop on Leadership: Increasing Leaders from Historically Under-Represented Groups

在这个日益复杂的世界中，STEM领导者必须拥有比科学、技术和工程更广泛的教育，才能成功应对解决世界面临的技术挑战所需的领导力挑战。未来的领导者需要有社会科学和行为科学的基础，并了解将使用和/或受他们将开发的STEM方法影响的人和社区的文化、经济、政治和教育差异。此外，解决美国STEM企业中边缘化群体在领导岗位上的代表性不足问题，对于确保美国拥有一支强大而多样化的STEM劳动力至关重要。本次会议提案将举办为期三天的研讨会，从多十年的角度记录和学习以下内容：1)来自STEM中代表性不足群体的领导者的特征，2)在不同机构（学术界，公共部门，非营利部门和私营部门）中增加不同STEM领导者代表性的变革努力，3)来自现任领导者的创新多样性和包容性观点，4)关于从代表性不足群体中培养下一代领导者的有效/新兴战略，5)将STEM与社会科学相结合的方法，以促进各种早期和中期职业科学家和工程师获得领导职位的过程。虽然来自代表性不足群体（urg）的领导者数量随着时间的推移略有增加，但这一增长滞后于来自STEM工作场所urg的个人的增长，这本身还没有反映出国家的人口结构。这个讲习班有可能影响到在充分利用国家人才储备方面落后的各类机构，因为它让最高级别的决策者和强有力的领导人参加，这些领导人不仅能够说明多样性的价值，而且能够阐明其成功故事背后的工作和过程，从而指明可能的前进道路。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this increasing complex world, STEM leaders must have a broader education than science, technology, and engineering to be successful in addressing the leadership challenges required to solve the technological challenges facing the world. Rising leaders need to have a grounding in the social and behavioral sciences and an appreciation for the cultural, economic, political, and educational differences of the people and communities who will use and/or be affected by the STEM approaches they will be developing. Additionally, addressing the underrepresentation of marginalized groups in leadership positions within the US STEM enterprise is vital to ensuring that the nation has a robust and diverse STEM workforce.This conference proposal will deliver a three-day workshop to document and learn from a multidecadal perspective the following: 1) characteristics of leaders from underrepresented groups in STEM, 2) transformative efforts that increased representation of diverse STEM leaders across various institutions (academia, public sector, non-profit sector, and private sector), 3) innovative diversity and inclusion perspectives from current leaders, 4) effective/emerging strategies regarding the development of next-generation leaders from underrepresented groups, and 5) approaches for the integration of STEM with social sciences to facilitate processes for a diversity of early and mid-career scientists and engineers to gain leadership positions.While the number of leaders from underrepresented groups (URGs) has increased modestly over time, this increase has lagged the increase of individuals from URGs in STEM workplaces, which themselves do not yet reflect the demographics of the Nation. This workshop has the potential of affecting various types of institutions that have lagged in utilizing fully the repository of national talent by involving policy makers at the highest level as well as strong leaders who can speak not only to the value of diversity but can also articulate the work and the processes behind their stories of success, thereby illuminating possible paths forward.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.