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）旨在通过一个以支持研究生和博士后在全国范围内过渡到教师职位为中心的活动，支持美国人口充分参与科学和工程企业。增加在学术企业中历史上代表性不足的群体的教师比例，是提高有前途的科学和工程劳动力整体多样性的重要途径。这在人才发展和研究创造力方面具有变革性，能够更快地开发出满足紧迫社会需求的变革性解决方案。FFW的使命是为有抱负的学术领袖提供获得关键信息的途径，这些信息对于申请、获得美国学术机构的教职职位至关重要。FFW的愿景是培养一个包容的学术氛围，支持美国人口在科学和工程企业的终身职业生涯中的不同人才和人力资源。材料研究本质上支持跨学科、协作和集体的研究努力，跨越传统的孤立学科（即化学、物理、生物、地质、数学、工程等）。因此，这个领域是一个理想的场所，可以增强学术界的经济、社会、种族、性别和残疾多样性，并支持非传统的职业道路（例如，在兵役后追求STEM学术生涯）。FFW是一个实践性的多日互动工作坊。通过该项目，从2022年至2025年，每年将举办四次为期两天的研讨会，并将汇集目前担任高级研究生和博士后职位的学员，以及来自美国各大学的现有教师的导师，其中许多人来自学术STEM领域代表性不足的群体，他们作为学员和/或导师参加了过去的ffw。讲习班的议程建立在从以往讲习班获得的最佳做法和知识的基础上，并根据以前的评估进行了有针对性的改进。小组讨论将涵盖如何在研究生或博士后期间为独立的学术生涯做准备；如何确定、申请、面试和谈判职位；以及作为助理教授的最佳实践。学员也将有机会提出一个简短的研究报告，并获得有关内容和演讲风格的反馈。将使用一个允许随时调整和评估的动态逻辑模型框架，以促进成功并为最佳实践提供信息。评估将包括形成性评估和总结性评估两部分，这些评估将传递给项目负责人和主要合作者，并用于通知后续ffw的变更。工作坊结束后，我们将建立一个社区，以支持参加者的持续专业发展，并举办虚拟的申请前网络研讨会，让潜在的申请人可以更多地了解流程，降低申请的门槛。该项目的短期成果将包括加强女性和代表性不足的候选人在学术道路上的准备，增强类似人群在追求学术事业方面的信心，以及增加有效追求学术事业并取得成功的类似人群的数量。长期的结果是女性和/或来自历史上在科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的教师数量增加，以及类似人群在国家协会/团体/网络中的参与度增加。最终，教授的这种增强将导致创新和包容性卓越的增加，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。