CAREER: Sustainable Racial Equity: Creating a New Generation of Engineering Education DEI Leaders

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划是国家科学基金会范围内的一项活动，旨在支持有潜力成为研究和教育领域学术榜样的早期职业教师，领导其部门或组织的使命取得进步，并为在整合教育和研究方面终生领导奠定基础。这个职业生涯项目旨在探索信仰，经验，教育培训和研究，支持有效的工程教育领导者谁承担的角色专注于多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）的发展。促进公平和扩大历史上被边缘化的人口对工程的参与仍然是维持美国全球领导地位和经济进步的优先事项。DEI的倡议、方案和研究在全国范围内不断增加，以更好地理解和消除这些挑战。然而，许多发展中国家的努力是孤立发展的，没有得到强有力的机构承诺和政策的支持。这项工作的结果将促进对DEI问题、方法和有效制度实施的理解，并将为下一代DEI领导人做好准备，以促进长期、可持续的种族平等倡议。指导这项研究工作的三个主要目标。首先，是了解DEI领导者的看法，知识和围绕其角色的挑战。其次是检查这些看法与研究生和早期职业教师的对比程度，这些教师来自历史上参与STEM研究领域的人数不足的群体。第三，是制定培训和教师发展计划，为下一代DEI领导人做好准备。在项目的第一阶段，将通过与多个机构的DEI领导人进行访谈，并将他们的经验与机构DEI计划，政策，奖励和激励措施的文件分析进行对比来收集数据。在随后的阶段，该项目将使用一项调查，从第一阶段的结果的基础上，审查工程系教师和研究生的信仰和做法，从历史上被边缘化的群体在工程。培训和教师发展是第三阶段的重点，其中包括高级博士生和早期职业教师在工程不仅为DEI职位的准备，而且还为研究，教学，指导和提高学生对DEI问题的理解。该项目由研究生教育创新（IGE）计划资助，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, and to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. This CAREER project aims to explore the beliefs, experiences, educational training, and research that supports the development of effective engineering education leaders who are assuming roles focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Advancing equity and broadening the participation of historically marginalized populations in engineering remain a priority for sustaining U.S. global leadership and economic progress. DEI initiatives, programs, and research are increasing in number across the country in an effort to better understand and dismantle the challenges. However, many DEI efforts are developed in isolation and are not supported by strong institutional commitment and policy. Results from this work will advance understanding of DEI issues, approaches, and effective institutional implementation and will prepare the next generation of DEI leaders to promote long-term, sustainable racial equity initiatives.Three primary objectives guide this research effort. First, is to understand DEI leaders’ perceptions, knowledge, and challenges around their roles. Second is to examine the extent to which those perceptions compare and contrast with graduate students and early career faculty members from groups who have been historically underrepresented in their participation in STEM fields of study. Third, is to develop training and faculty development programs to prepare the next generation of DEI leaders. Data will be collected in the first phase of the project by conducting interviews with DEI leaders at multiple institutions and contrasting their experiences with a document analysis of institutional DEI programs, policies, awards, and incentives. In a subsequent phase the project will use a survey, based on results from phase one, to examine the beliefs and practices of engineering faculty members and graduate students from groups historically marginalized in engineering. Training and faculty development are the focus of phase three, which includes the preparation of senior PhD students and early-career faculty members in engineering not only for DEI positions, but also for research, teaching, mentoring, and enhancing student understanding of DEI issues.This project is funded by the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program, with the support of the NSF Racial Equity Program Description.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.