Conference: Supporting Mentoring in STEM Graduate Education: A Proposal for Virtual Workshops and Supporting Activities

通过这个项目，研究生院理事会(CGS)将在2024年主办两个虚拟研讨会，让主要研究人员准备好回应NSF针对《2022年美国竞争法》和《2022年芯片和科学法案》而实施的新的PAPPG要求。具体地说，研讨会将针对NSF的要求：(1)向NSF提出的所有建议都应包括为所有研究生提供NSF资助奖项的指导计划；(2)各机构提供导师培训和指导，并在拨款建议中描述在负责任和道德的研究行为方面提供适当培训和监督的计划；以及(3)每个获得NSF大量支持的博士后学者和研究生必须有一个个人发展计划，每年更新一次。第一个研讨会将侧重于教员研究人员，第二个研讨会将侧重于研究生院长和其他管理人员，他们负责在STEM领域扩大和加强研究生导师培训。该提案将资助确定、开发和传播指导资源和工具，以及有希望的做法和政策，以加强研究生指导，并协助机构和个别教师响应NSF的新要求。所产生的资源将解决一个重要需求，即需要一套关于研究生指导方面基于证据和有前景的做法和政策的可利用的资源。这项提议的一个中心目标是为服务于不同人群和EPSCoR辖区的广泛机构和大学提供更多有效指导的资源。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Through this project, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will host two virtual workshops in 2024 that will inform the readiness of principal investigators to respond to NSF's new PAPPG requirements implemented in response to the America COMPETES Act of 2022 and the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Specifically, the workshops will address NSF requirements: (1) that all proposals to NSF include mentoring plans for all graduate students on NSF funded awards; (2) that institutions provide mentor training and mentorship and describe in grant proposals a plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research; and (3) that each individual postdoctoral scholar and graduate student receiving substantial NSF support must have an Individual Development Plan, updated annually. The first workshop will focus on faculty researchers while the second will focus on graduate deans and other administrators who have responsibilities for expanding and enhancing graduate mentorship training across STEM fields. The proposal will fund the identification, development, and dissemination of mentoring resources and tools as well as promising practices and policies to enhance graduate mentoring and assist institutions and individual faculty in responding to the new NSF requirements. The resulting resources will address an important need for an accessible set of resources on evidence-based and promising practices and policies in graduate mentorship. A central goal of this proposal is to provide more accessible resources on effective mentoring to a broad range of institutions and universities serving diverse populations and in EPSCoR jurisdictions.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.