Improving Diversity and Career Transitions through Society Support

项目摘要 意义：尽管经过几十年的努力，一些种族和民族群体在科学领域的代表性仍然不足。 与他们在总人口中的比例相比。在某种程度上，这种差异是由于较高的自然减员率 从生物医学培训途径为科学家从代表性不足（UR）的群体。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 科学家在职业生涯和机构之间的过渡。在众多努力中， 对于UR科学家来说，保持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，并支持提供指导的方案 和培训的机会。拟议的行动：亚洲安保协调理事会将采用这一成功的做法， 科学社会如何能够提高乌拉圭科学家在生物医学培训中的保留率，增加生物医学培训的多样性， 科学和减少代表性的差距。具体目标：目标1中的活动启动了一项变革， 通过为ASCB领导层、多样性和 在年度会议上为普通会员提供包容性培训，以及一次新的海报会议和主旨发言人 在多样性的奖学金，以信号的成员，多样性是相关的所有成员。在目标2中， 格拉德生，博士后，和初级教师的风险低于通常的指导将被选为一个多， 一年的计划，提供广泛的多层次的指导和社区，专业发展， 生物信息学培训，以及在支持环境中实践新技能的实习。目标3 利用大型年会提供活动，提高工发组织代表之间的互动率 和大多数科学家，以及提供辅导和培训，以新兴的科学家。这些活动包括 一个旅行奖励计划，使UR本科生，格拉德生，博士后和初级教师的年度 会议，专业发展和多个结构化的指导机会，这些新兴的 科学家们，一个单独的海报竞争网络和实践之前的一般性会议，一个重大的 会议强调了UR科学家的壮观研究，以及认识到 并看到其影响的一个例子。虽然融资期限太短，无法直接衡量 鉴于这些活动对生物医学培训保留率的影响，本建议确定了可以接受的措施 代表继续接受生物医学培训的可能性。判断影响、项目前和项目后指标 将被收集，并在参与者组的变化将与其他类似的一组进行比较， 非参与者。总体影响：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一个 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式。

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.