UNM FIRST: Promoting Inclusive Excellence in Neuroscience and Data Science

总体摘要/摘要 美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)已明确承诺，将使国家卫生机构的 生物医学工作人员。然而，招聘、晋升和保留历史上处于不利地位的 代表不足的少数族裔(URM)教师仍然是学术界的一个重大问题。美国国立卫生研究院教研室 机构招聘促进可持续变革(第一)倡议旨在转变机构文化 通过发展生物医学研究人员社区和支持致力于 不断增加的多样性和包容性优秀。新墨西哥大学(UNM)是一名拉美裔学生 机构，以及卡内基非常高级研究活动机构。因此，招聘和留住多样化的 UNM的生物医学教职员工队伍将与NIH的使命保持一致，并将在 少数族裔占多数的州，不同的教职员工代表将为女性和URM实习生提供榜样。 研究表明，制度文化的系统性转型需要招募和留住 通过循证实践，以及对所有教职员工和行政管理人员的教育，使教师多样化 多样性、公平性和包容性。提议的UNM First计划将在6个项目中招聘9名早期职业教师 新墨西哥大学文理学院的院系。该队列将由两个跨学科集群组成： 神经科学和数据科学。中心假设是，这种教员队列模型将成功地聘用 并保留不同的早期职业教师队伍和作为UNM First的一部分实施的改革 该方案将支持在整个UNM范围内加强包容性的卓越做法。中国的长期目标是 UNM的第一个计划是增加NIH生物医学教员队伍的多样性，同时在 在我们的机构文化中朝着包容性卓越方向发展的最新进展。我们的具体目标是：招募， 提拔和保留多样化的生物医学教员队伍(目标1)；系统地改造新墨西哥州州立大学 面向包容性卓越的机构文化(目标2)。UNM第一领导小组包括五名成员 在国立卫生研究院资助的研究、教师发展和教师招聘方面拥有丰富经验的UNM女性领导者 和晋升，以及机构政策制定。UNM领导层，包括新的机构创新 执行委员会(i3委员会；高级副教务长、负责研究的副总裁、助理教务长 文理学院院长和高级主任)，这将被创建以支持 UNM First方案将准备与UNM第一领导小组在其 致力于加强UNM的多样性和包容性卓越。拟议的UNM的意义 第一个计划是由美国国立卫生研究院资助的致力于包容性卓越的生物医学教员的多样化队列将 作为UNM文理学院的教员取得成功，UNM将成为一个机构 在那里，包容性卓越是永久确立的，新墨西哥州大学的教职员工，包括新墨西哥州大学的第一教职员工， 将培养美国国立卫生研究院资助的下一代多元化科学家。

OVERALL SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have indicated a clear commitment to diversifying the national biomedical workforce. Yet, the recruitment, advancement, and retention of historically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty remains a significant problem within academia. The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) initiative aims to transform institutional culture by developing communities of biomedical researchers and supporting institutions that are committed to increasing diversity and inclusive excellence. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a Hispanic Serving Institution, and a Carnegie Very High Research Activity institution. Thus, recruitment and retention of a diverse biomedical faculty workforce at UNM will align with the NIH mission and will promote inclusive excellence in a majority-minority state where diverse faculty representation will offer role models for female and URM trainees. Research suggests that systemic transformation of institutional culture requires the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty through evidence-based practices, as well as the education of all faculty and adminstrators in diversity, equity, and inclusion. The proposed UNM FIRST program will hire nine early career faculty across six departments in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences. The cohort will consist of two interdisciplinary clusters: neuroscience and data science. The central hypothesis is that this faculty cohort model will successfully hire and retain a diverse cohort of early career faculty and the changes implemented as part of the UNM FIRST program will support the enhancement of inclusive excellence practices across UNM. The long-term goal of the UNM FIRST program is to increase the diversity of the biomedical faculty workforce at NIH while building on recent progress toward inclusive excellence in our institutional culture. Our specific aims are: To recruit, promote, and retain a diverse cohort of biomedical faculty (AIM 1); and to systemically transform UNM institutional culture towards inclusive excellence (AIM 2). The UNM FIRST Leadership Team includes five female leaders at UNM with significant experience in NIH-funded research, faculty development, faculty hiring and promotion, and institutional policymaking. The UNM Leadership, including a new Institutional Innovation Implementation Board (I3 Board; the Senior Vice Provost, Vice President for Research, Associate Provost for Faculty Success, College of Arts & Sciences Dean, and the ADVANCE Director) that will be created to support the UNM FIRST program, will be poised to work closely with the UNM FIRST Leadership Team in its commitment to enhance diversity and inclusive excellence at UNM. The significance of the proposed UNM FIRST program is that a diverse cohort of NIH-funded biomedical faculty devoted to inclusive excellence will achieve success as faculty in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, that UNM will become an institution where inclusive excellence is permanently established, and that UNM faculty, including UNM FIRST faculty, will train the next generation of diverse NIH-funded scientists.