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

修改后的项目摘要/摘要部分 我们坚定不移地支持推动NIH First计划的原则，提出了培养：西北大学招生以改变代表性不足和实现公平。Preture将采用教师队列模式、教师支持方面的创新以及推动机构转型的机制，以实质性地促进我们大学自身的倡议，以建立可持续的教师多样性和包容性卓越的文化。该中心位于西北大学世界级的研究环境中，旨在通过投资于我们机构内包容性的文化变革，打破阻碍来自代表不足群体(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，系统性种族主义在生物医学科学领域持续存在，包括在西北大学。我们致力于摧毁那些允许种族主义和偏见持续存在并阻碍太多URG学者的科学生涯的结构。Borture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教师在研究、职业和个人轨迹方面的成长和成就。培训由行政核心、教师发展核心和评估核心提供支持，这些核心将协同工作，并与NIH和第一协调和评估中心(CEC)合作，以实现计划目标。培育将通过几项创新推动成功。我们多元化的MPI和高级领导团队长期致力于多样性、公平性、包容性、社区建设和教师职业发展。它们将利用强有力的体制支持，实施系统性创新，以建立更具包容性和可持续性的卓越文化(目标1)。培训中心集中在与NIH任务区结盟的三个跨部门科学社区中的每个社区进行从细胞到社区的一系列研究：癌症、心血管疾病以及大脑、精神和行为。科学社区将在科学卓越和包容的文化中欢迎15名新的URG教员(培育队列)(目标2)。通往这些新教职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倡议的基础上。AIM 3建立了循证的创新发展计划，其中包括专业教练、安全空间大使团队，以及为培育队列成员提供全面的指导和赞助，以增强自我效能，并在西北大学的入职和晋升之旅中与孤立作斗争。Aim 4由一个专家评估团队推动，该团队将采用最先进的方法来指导实时改进走向成功。最后，一个强大的制度转型和问责委员会将加强制度连接，并加快西北大学领导人规模化实施培育结果，以可持续地将我们的制度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.