NURTURE: Northwestern University Recruitment to Transform Under-Representation and achieve Equity

修改项目摘要/摘要部分 我们坚定不移地支持推动NIH FIRST计划提出的原则：西北大学招聘以改变代表性不足并实现公平。学校将采用教师队列模式，创新教师支持，并推动机构转型的机制，以实质性地增加我们大学自己的举措，以建立教师多样性和包容性卓越的可持续文化。以西北大学世界一流的研究环境为中心，我们的目标是通过投资于我们机构内的包容性文化变革，打破阻碍来自代表性不足群体（URG）的生物医学研究科学家充分参与的系统性障碍。我们承认，系统性的种族主义一直存在于生物医学科学，包括在西北。我们致力于拆除允许种族主义和偏见持续存在并阻碍太多URG学者的科学事业的结构。该计划建议将孤立的封地结构转变为跨学科的科学社区，这将促进URG教师的研究，职业和个人轨迹的增长和成就。该计划由一个行政核心，一个教师发展核心和一个评估核心支持，这些核心将协同工作，并与NIH和FIRST协调和评估中心（CEC）合作，以实现计划目标。EQUIPTURE将通过几项创新来推动成功。我们多元化的MPI和高级领导团队长期致力于多元化，公平，包容，社区建设和教师职业发展。他们将利用强大的机构支持，实施系统性创新，以建立更具包容性和可持续的卓越文化（目标1）。该中心集中在与NIH使命领域保持一致的三个跨部门科学社区中从细胞到社区的一系列研究：癌症，心血管和大脑，思想和行为。科学社区将欢迎15个新的URG教师（USCTURE队列）（目标2），在科学卓越和包容的文化。这些新教师职位的跑道将建立在长期培训计划，良好的当地关系和博士后培训新举措的基础上。目标3建立了循证创新的进步计划，包括专业教练，安全空间大使团队，以及全面的指导和赞助，为西北大学队列成员提供自我效能和打击孤立的机会。目标4由一个专家评估团队驱动，该团队将采用最先进的方法来指导实时改进以取得成功。最后，一个强大的机构转型和问责委员会将加强机构的连通性，并加快西北大学领导人对调查结果的规模化实施，以可持续地将我们的机构文化转变为包容性卓越。

Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section We are unyielding in our support of the principles driving the NIH FIRST program in proposing NURTURE: Northwestern University Recruitment to Transform Under-Representation and achieve Equity. NURTURE will employ a faculty cohort model, innovations in faculty support, and mechanisms to drive institutional transformation to substantively add to our University’s own initiatives to build a sustainable culture of faculty diversity and inclusive excellence. Centered within Northwestern University’s world class research environment, NURTURE aims to disrupt systemic barriers that impede full participation of biomedical research scientists from underrepresented groups (URG) by investing in inclusive cultural change within our institution. We acknowledge that systemic racism has persisted in biomedical science, including at Northwestern. We are committed to dismantling the structures that have allowed racism and bias to persist and impeded the scientific careers of too many URG scholars. NURTURE proposes to transform siloed fiefdom structures to transdisciplinary Scientific Neighborhoods that will foster growth and accomplishment in the research, career, and personal trajectories of URG faculty. NURTURE is supported by an Administrative Core, a Faculty Development Core, and an Evaluation Core that will work synergistically, and with NIH and the FIRST Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC), to achieve program goals. NURTURE will drive success through several innovations. Our diverse MPI and senior leadership team has a longstanding commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, community building, and faculty career development. They will leverage strong institutional support to implement systemic innovations toward a more inclusive and sustained culture of excellence (Aim 1). NURTURE is centered on a spectrum of research from cells to community in each of three cross-departmental Scientific Neighborhoods aligned with NIH mission areas: cancer, cardiovascular, and brain, mind and behavior. Scientific Neighborhoods will welcome 15 new URG faculty (the NURTURE Cohort) (Aim 2), in a culture of scientific excellence and inclusion. Runways to these new faculty positions will be built from a foundation of long-standing training programs, well-established local relationships, and a new initiative on postdoctoral training. Aim 3 establishes evidence-informed innovative advancement programs that include professional coaching, a team of safe space ambassadors, and comprehensive mentoring and sponsorship for NURTURE Cohort members to empower self-efficacy and combat isolation throughout their Northwestern onboarding and promotion journey. Aim 4 is driven by an expert evaluation team that will employ state-of-the-art approaches to guide real-time improvement toward success. Finally, a robust Institutional Transformation and Accountability Committee will bolster institutional connectivity and accelerate scaled implementation of NURTURE findings by Northwestern University leaders to sustainably transform our institutional culture toward inclusive excellence.