UNM FIRST: Promoting Inclusive Excellence in Neuroscience and Data Science

总体总结/摘要 美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）明确承诺使国家卫生政策多样化。 生物医学劳动力。然而，招募、晋升和保留历史上处于不利地位的人， 少数民族教师代表不足（URM）仍然是学术界的一个重大问题。NIH Faculty 机构招聘促进可持续转型（FIRST）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 增加多样性和包容性卓越。新墨西哥州大学（UNM）是一所西班牙裔服务大学 卡内基非常高研究活动机构。因此，征聘和保留不同的 UNM的生物医学教师队伍将与NIH的使命保持一致，并将在一个 多数-少数民族国家，不同的教师代表将为女性和URM学员提供榜样。 研究表明，机构文化的系统性转变需要征聘和留住 通过以证据为基础的做法多样化的教师，以及所有教师和管理人员的教育 多样性、公平和包容。拟议中的UNM FIRST计划将在六个国家雇用九名早期职业教师。 UNM艺术与科学学院该队列将由两个跨学科集群组成： 神经科学和数据科学。核心假设是，这种教师队列模型将成功地雇用 并保留了早期职业教师的多元化群体和作为UNM FIRST的一部分实施的变化 该计划将支持整个UNM的包容性卓越实践的增强。的长期目标 UNM FIRST计划旨在增加NIH生物医学教师队伍的多样性， 在我们的机构文化中实现包容性卓越的最新进展。我们的具体目标是：招募， 促进和保留生物医学教师的多样化群体（AIM 1）;并系统地改造UNM 实现包容性卓越的机构文化（AIM 2）。UNM第一领导团队包括五个 UNM的女性领导者在NIH资助的研究，教师发展，教师招聘方面具有丰富的经验 以及机构决策。UNM领导层，包括新的体制创新 执行委员会（I3委员会;高级副教务长，研究副总裁，副教务长， 教师的成功，艺术与科学学院院长，和先进的董事），将创建支持 UNM FIRST计划将与UNM FIRST领导团队密切合作， 致力于加强UNM的多样性和包容性卓越。拟议的联合国海事组织的重要性 第一个计划是，一个由NIH资助的致力于包容性卓越的生物医学教师的多元化群体将 在艺术和科学的UNM学院取得成功，UNM将成为一个机构 在那里包容性卓越是永久建立的，UNM的教师，包括UNM第一教师， 将培养下一代不同的NIH资助的科学家。

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.