Track 3: Increasing Minority Presence within Academia through Continuous Training at Scale (IMPACTS)

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。尽管努力使工程学术界多样化，但工程教授仍然主要是白人和男性。为了解决工程学院中未被充分代表的群体（urg，即女性和stem未被充分代表的少数群体）的不成比例的代表问题，将建立一个包容性指导（IM）中心。IM中心的目的是通过建立一个由技术上相似或在其他方面具有战略意义的退休教师导师（主要是白人男性）和人口统计学上相似的高级教师导师组成的指导网络，帮助URG工程教师做好准备，坚持下去，并促进他们的发展。这两组导师将被期望通过他们作为工程学术领袖的独特优势，交叉授粉并相互帮助，成为更有效的导师。例如，URG的高级教员将会就一个女性和/或有色人种在工程学术界所遇到的明显差异向荣誉教员（由于工程教授的人口统计现实，他们主要是非URG人口）提供咨询。通过大规模持续培训（IMPACT）增加学术界少数群体的存在（IMPACT）将利用IMPACT作为国家科学基金会（NSF）扩大工程参与（BPE）项目（奖励15-42728和15-42524）和包括设计，开发和启动试点（DDLP）（奖励17-44500）的发展过程中获得的种子成功和经验教训。IM中心每年将面向25-30名工程学院学员。预期的结果是，退休和高级工程教师为下一代URG工程教师提供指导、支持和倡导，这有可能对工程学院生态系统产生重大影响。“影响”的隐含好处将涉及更强大、更多元化的STEM教授和劳动力，因为更多的学生人才将由更有权力的多元化教师教授和培训。此外，该项目还将推动人们认识到作为导师网络的IM Hub的价值，该网络有能力扩大工程学术界的参与度、包容性和公平性。美国工程教育学会（ASEE）将提供在美国工程学术界征求参与影响的核心手段，并使用先前的结构来实施和监督IM中心。为了进一步了解影响参与者的经验以及与持续参与和延续这种指导有关的因素，科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校将实施一项多阶段现象学混合方法研究。这项研究的主要目标是让退休教师与URG资深教师一起指导URG教师学员的假设有效性。使用职业目标进展、访谈和调查将是记录成功的关键。最后，佐治亚理工学院将提供总体项目领导，并将帮助实施和扩展。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。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Despite concerted efforts to diversify engineering academia, the engineering professoriate remains primarily White and male. In order to counter the disproportionate representation of engineering faculty who are members of underrepresented groups (URGs; i.e., women and STEM-underrepresented minority populations), an Inclusive Mentoring (IM) Hub will be established. The IM Hub will be designed to aid in the preparation, persistence, and promotion of URG engineering faculty through the creation of a mentorship network of technically similar and otherwise strategic emeriti faculty mentors (primarily White males) and demographically similar senior faculty mentors. The two sets of mentors will be expected to cross-pollinate and assist one another to become more effective mentors from their unique vantage points as engineering academic leaders. For example, the senior URG faculty will counsel the emeriti faculty (who are expected to primarily be of non-URG populations due to the demographic realities of the engineering professoriate) regarding the distinct differences one encounters in engineering academia as a woman and/or person of color. Increasing Minority Presence within Academia through Continuous Training (IMPACT) at Scale (IMPACTS) will leverage the seed successes and lessons garnered during the development of IMPACT as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) Project (Awards 15-42728 and 15-42524) and an INCLUDES Design, Development and Launch Pilot (DDLP) (Award 17-44500). The IM Hub will target 25-30 engineering faculty mentees per year. The intended outcome, wherein retired and senior engineering faculty mentor, support, and advocate for the next generation of URG engineering faculty, has the potential to significantly impact the engineering faculty ecosystem. The implicit benefit of IMPACTS will involve a stronger and more diversified STEM professoriate and workforce, given that larger numbers of student talent would be taught and trained by a more empowered diversity of faculty. Additionally, the project will advance knowledge on the value of an IM Hub designed as a mentorship network, which has the capacity to broaden participation, inclusivity, and equity in engineering academia.The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will provide the core means of soliciting participation in IMPACTS across U.S. engineering academia, as well as using prior constructs to implement and monitor the IM Hub. In order to advance knowledge on the IMPACTS participants’ experience and factors related to sustained participation and perpetuation of such mentorship, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs will implement a multi-phased phenomenological mixed-methods study. The research primarily will target the hypothesized effectiveness of engaging emeriti faculty, in tandem with senior URG faculty, in the mentorship of URG faculty mentees. The use of professional goals progression, interviews, and surveys will be key in documenting success. Finally, Georgia Tech will provide overarching project leadership and will aid implementation and expansion.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.