Improving Diversity and Career Transitions through Society Support

项目摘要 意义：尽管经过几十年的努力，几个种族和民族群体在科学界的代表性不足 与他们在总人口中的比例相比。这种差异在一定程度上是由于员工流失率较高。 来自代表不足(UR)群体的科学家的生物医学培训途径。作为一个科学社会， 美国细胞生物学学会(ASCB)认识到社会可以提供的特殊稳定性 科学家在不同的职业阶段和机构中过渡。在提高留存率的众多努力中 对于UR科学家来说，留校率持续增长的学术机构既雇用了 转变机构文化，使其更具包容性，并支持提供指导的项目 并对UR的科学家进行培训。建议的行动：ASCB将采用这一成功的方法，作为 科学学会如何增加UR科学家在生物医学培训中的留存率，增加 科学和减少代表权的差距。具体目标：目标1中的活动启动了 通过ASCB领导力、多样性和包容性研讨会向包容性发展的机构文化 在年会上为普通会员提供包容性培训，以及新的海报会议和主旨演讲 关于多样性奖学金，以向会员国发出多样性与所有成员相关的信号。在目标2中， 研究生、博士后和初级教职员工的辅导水平低于正常水平的风险将被选中参加多项 提供广泛的多层次指导和社区、专业发展和 生物信息学培训，以及在支持环境中练习新技能的实践。目标3 利用大型年会提供活动，提高UR之间的互动率 和大多数科学家，以及为新兴科学家提供指导和培训。这些活动包括 一项旅游奖励计划，吸引加州大学本科生、研究生、博士后和初级教职员工参加年度 为这些新兴市场提供会议、专业发展和多种结构化的指导机会 科学家们，一个单独的网络和练习海报竞赛在全体会议之前举行，一次重大的 会议突出了一位UR科学家的壮观研究，并举行了一次重要会议，以认识到 并查看其影响的一个例子。尽管资金长度太短，无法直接衡量 关于生物医学培训中活动对留住的影响，本建议确定了可接受的措施 保留在生物医学培训中的可能性的替代物。判断影响、计划前和计划后的指标 将被收集，并将参与者组中的更改与其他相似的 非参与者。总体影响：总的来说，这些活动预计每年将影响1000多名参与者 通过一系列活动使学术界的最佳做法适应 科学社会，测试一个社会如何对多样性产生持久影响的多管齐下的模型。

Project Summary Significance: Despite decades of effort, several racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in science compared with their proportion of the general population. In part, this disparity is due to a higher rate of attrition from biomedical training pathways for scientists from underrepresented (UR) groups. As a scientific society, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recognizes the particular stability that societies can provide scientists as they transition across career stage and institutions. Among the many efforts to increase retention for UR scientists, the academic institutions that have seen a lasting increase in retention employed both a transformation of institutional culture to make it more inclusive and support programs that deliver mentoring and training to the UR scientists. Proposed Action: ASCB will adapt this successful approach as a model for how a scientific society can increase retention of UR scientists in biomedical training, increasing diversity in science and reducing the disparity in representation. Specific Aims: The activities in Aim 1 initiate a change in institutional culture toward inclusion through an inclusiveness workshop for ASCB leadership, diversity and inclusion training for general members at the Annual Meeting, and a new poster session and keynote speaker on the Scholarship of Diversity to signal to the membership that diversity is relevant for all members. In Aim 2, grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty at risk for lower-than-usual mentoring will be selected for a multi- year program that offers extensive multi-level mentoring and community, professional development and bioinformatics training, and a practicum in which to practice the new skills in a supported environment. Aim 3 takes advantage of the large Annual Meeting to offer activities that increase the rate of interaction among UR and majority scientists, as well as deliver mentoring and training to emerging scientists. These activities include a travel awards program to bring UR undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty to the Annual Meeting, professional development and multiple structured mentoring opportunities for these emerging scientists, a separate poster competition for networking and practice ahead of the general session, a major session to highlight spectacular research from a UR scientist, and a major session to recognize the importance of mentoring and see an example of its impact. Although the funding length is too short to directly measure the impact of the activities on retention in biomedical training, this proposal identifies measures that are acceptable proxies for the likelihood of remaining in biomedical training. To judge impact, pre- and post-program metrics will be gathered, and the changes in the participant group will be compared with an otherwise-similar group of non-participants. Overall impact: All told, these activities are expected to impact 1000+ participants annually through a combination of activities that adapt best practices in academia to the needs and strengths of a scientific society, testing a multi-prong model for how a society can have a lasting impact on diversity.