Conference: Future Faculty Workshop: Preparing Diverse Leaders for the Future, Summers of 2022-2025

会议：未来教师研讨会：为未来培养多元化领导者，2022-2025 年夏季

• 批准号: 2226708
• 负责人: Emily Pentzer
• 金额: $ 29.79万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2226708&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Future; Faculty; Workshop; Preparing

This interdisciplinary future faculty workshop (FFW) aims to support full engagement of the American population in the science and engineering enterprise through an event centered on supporting graduate students and postdocs in their transition into faculty positions across the nation. Increasing the fraction of faculty who belong to groups historically underrepresented in the academic enterprise is a prominent route to improving overall diversity in the up-and-coming science and engineering workforce. This can be transformational with respect to talent development and research creativity, enabling more rapid development of transformative solutions to pressing societal needs. The mission of the FFW is to provide aspiring academic leaders access to the key information critical to apply for, secure, and succeed in faculty positions across academic institutions in the United States. The vision of the FFW is to foster an inclusive academic climate that supports the diverse talent and human resources of the American population in lifelong careers in the scientific and engineering enterprise. Materials research inherently supports interdisciplinary, collaborative, and collective research endeavors across traditionally siloed disciplines (i.e., chemistry, physics, biology, geology, mathematics, engineering, etc.). Thus, this field is an ideal venue to enhance economic, social, racial, gender, and disability diversity in academia, as well as support non-traditional career paths (e.g., pursuit of a STEM academic career after military service). The FFW is a hands-on multi-day interactive workshop. Through this project, four two-day workshops will be held annually from 2022-2025, and will bring together mentees who will have current positions as senior graduate students and postdocs, and mentors who will be established faculty from across US universities, many of whom are from groups underrepresented in academic STEM fields and who participated in past FFWs as mentees and/or mentors. The agenda for the workshop is built upon best practices and knowledge gained from prior workshops, with targeted improvements based on previous assessments. Panel discussions will cover how to prepare for an independent academic career during time as a graduate student or postdoc; how to identify, apply to, interview at, and negotiate for positions; and best practices as an assistant professor. Mentees will also have the opportunity to give a short proposed research talk and get feedback on content and presentation style. A dynamic logic model framework that permits ready adaptation and assessment will be used to facilitate success and inform best practices. The assessment will include both formative and summative evaluation components, which will be relayed to the PI and key collaborators and used to inform changes to subsequent FFWs. A post-workshop community will be developed to support the participates in their continued professional development and virtual pre-application webinars will be held so that potential applicants can learn more about the process and the barrier for application is lowered. Shorter-term outcomes of this project will include enhanced preparation of women and underrepresented candidates for the academic pathway, increased confidence in similar populations in the pursuit of academic careers, and increased number of similar populations who effectively pursue and succeed in academic careers. Longer-term outcomes are increased numbers of faculty who are women and/or from groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering, as well as increased participation of similar populations in national societies/groups/networks. Ultimately, this enhancement of the professoriate will lead to increased innovation and inclusive excellence, and it will provide a sustainable catalyst for improving diversity and inclusion across the American science and engineering enterprise.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.

这个跨学科的未来教师研讨会（FFW）旨在通过一项以支持研究生和博士后的活动为中心的活动，以支持美国人口在科学和工程企业中的全面参与。在学术企业中，属于历史上代表性不足的群体的教师的比例是改善新兴科学和工程劳动力的整体多样性的重要途径。对于人才的发展和研究创造力，这可能是变革性的，从而使变革性解决方案更快地开发了紧迫的社会需求。 FFW的任务是为有抱负的学术领导者访问关键信息，以申请，安全并成功地担任美国学术机构的教师职位。 FFW的愿景是促进一种包容性的学术氛围，该气候支持科学和工程企业中终身职业的美国人口的多样化人才和人力资源。材料研究固有地支持跨学科，合作和集体研究努力（即化学，物理学，生物学，地质，数学，工程等）。因此，该领域是改善学术界经济，社会，种族，性别和残疾多样性的理想场所，并支持非传统职业道路（例如，在服兵役后追求STEM学术职业）。 FFW是一个动手的多日互动研讨会。通过这个项目，每年将从2022 - 2025年举行四个为期两天的研讨会，并将团结起来的受训者，他们将担任高级毕业生和博士学位的当前职位，以及在美国各个大学中建立教师的导师，其中许多人来自学术茎不足的群体，在过去的FFWS affws affws affws ascores and或Mentors和/或Mentors中。研讨会的议程基于先前的研讨会获得的最佳实践和知识，并根据先前的评估进行了针对性的改进。小组讨论将涵盖如何为研究生或博士后的时间准备独立的学术职业；如何识别，申请，面试和谈判职位；以及作为助理教授的最佳实践。受训者还将有机会进行简短的建议研究演讲，并获得有关内容和演示方式的反馈。允许准备适应和评估的动态逻辑模型框架将用于促进成功并为最佳实践提供信息。该评估将包括形成性和总结性评估组件，这些评估组件将传达给PI和主要合作者，并用于为随后的FFW提供更改。将开发一个工作后社区，以支持参与其持续的专业发展的参与，并将举行虚拟申请的网络研讨会，以便潜在的申请人可以更多地了解该过程，并降低申请的障碍。该项目的短期成果将包括增强妇女的准备和代表性不足的学术途径候选人，对从事学术职业的类似人群的信心提高，以及有效追求并在学术职业中取得成功的类似人群的数量增加。长期的结果是，妇女和/或来自历史上人数不足的妇女的教师人数增加，以及在国家社会/团体/网络中类似人群的参与增加。最终，这种教授的这种增强将导致创新和包容性的卓越性，并将为改善美国科学和工程企业的多样性和包容性提供可持续的催化剂。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用该基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来审查CRETIRIA，并被认为是值得通过评估的支持。