Collaborative Research: Planning: Track 1: Beyond Recruitment: Engaging Allies to Foster Black Junior Environmental Engineering Faculty Success

环境工程师在促进社会经济和环境正义方面发挥着重要作用。特别是，黑人环境工程学院在公平的环境工程实践方面，以及在设计和实施直接影响服务不足的边缘化社区的技术系统方面，一直是劳动力培训的管理者。因此，黑人教师在环境工程领域的代表性不足和停滞不前，对该领域的未来尤其令人担忧。最近，高等教育学术机构为吸引和雇用黑人初级教师以及增加种族和民族多样性所做的新努力取得了有限的成功，原因是：招聘后缺乏包容性；贬低黑人教师在研究、教学和服务方面的贡献和方法；此外，系统内隐和外显偏见的存在阻碍了职业成功和流动性。为了帮助解决这一问题，“扩大工程参与”项目将在2022年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）会议上举办一个研讨会，让环境工程社区参与讨论黑人初级教师面临的独特挑战，以及改善黑人教师招聘和保留的策略。研讨会的研究结果将被传播到更广泛的环境工程社区，并在努力提升该领域和其他学术和科学领域的黑人教师。该项目的总体目标是为2022年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）会议开发一个研讨会，以吸引社区参与，并确定促进保留和提高黑人环境工程初级教师成功的策略。尽管学术机构努力瞄准和招收黑人申请者，但黑人环境工程学院的数量却停滞不前。由于历史上的工程实践对被剥夺权利的社区产生了不成比例的负面影响，环境工程专业的黑人教师的更多代表性尤其重要，环境工程师经常支持民主化获取清洁和安全的资源、商品和服务。该项目的具体目标是：(1)提高AEESP社区对2022年研讨会重要性的认识；(2)在2022年亚太经合组织会议上主持研讨会，让利益相关者参与并确定盟友的角色；(3)向更广泛的环境工程界传播研讨会的研究成果。讲习班将由三名黑人初级环境工程教员领导，此外还有一名在工程教育公平和学术界种族边缘化方面具有专门知识的教员。本次研讨会的成果将被用作未来研究和框架开发的跳板，供学术负责人、部门和盟友使用，并最终提高黑人教师在环境工程领域的参与度和留任率。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。

Environmental engineers play significant roles in advancing socioeconomic and environmental justice. In particular, Black Environmental Engineering faculty are and have been stewards of workforce training in equitable environmental engineering practices, and in designing and implementing technological systems that directly impact underserved, marginalized communities. The underrepresentation and stagnation of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering, therefore, is particularly concerning for the future of the field. Recent renewed efforts by higher education academic institutions to attract and hire Black junior faculty and increase racial and ethnic diversity have limited success due to: lack of inclusivity following recruitment; devaluing of Black faculty contributions and approaches to research, teaching and service; and, the existence of systemic implicit and explicit biases that derail professional success and mobility. To help address this issue, the Broadening Participation in Engineering project will develop a workshop at the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) conference to engage the Environmental Engineering community regarding unique challenges facing Black junior faculty, and strategies to improve recruitment and retention of Black faculty. The findings from the workshop will be disseminated to the broader Environmental Engineering community and beyond in efforts to uplift Black faculty in the field and in other academic and scientific spaces. The overall goal of this project is to develop a workshop for the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) conference to engage the community and identify strategies to promote retention and increase success of Black, junior faculty in Environmental Engineering. The number of Black, Environmental Engineering faculty has stagnated despite efforts of academic institutions to target and recruit Black applicants. Greater representation of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering is especially important as historic engineering practices have disproportionately negatively impacted disenfranchised communities, and environmental engineers often champion democratized access to clean and safe resources, goods and services. The specific goals of this project are to: (1) raise awareness among the AEESP community of the significance of the 2022 workshop; (2) lead a workshop at the 2022 AEESP meeting to engage stakeholders and identify roles for allies; and, (3) disseminate findings from the workshop to the broader Environmental Engineering community. The workshop will be led by three, Black, junior Environmental Engineering faculty, in addition a faculty member with expertise in equity in engineering education and racial marginalization in academia. The outcomes of this workshop will be leveraged to springboard future research and framework development for use by academic heads, departments and allies, and to ultimately increase participation and retention of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering.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.