UTEP FIRST: United Toward Equity and Progress: Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation

UTEP FIRST：团结追求公平和进步：可持续转型的教员机构招聘

• 批准号: 10664694
• 负责人: Guadalupe Corral
• 金额: $ 46.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-05 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10664694
• 关键词: Academic support; Achievement; Address; Automobile Driving; Biomedical Research; Classification; Communities; Community of Practice; Creativeness; Development; Discipline; Documentation; Education; Environment; Equity; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Evidence based practice; Faculty; Fostering; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health Disparities Research; Hispanic; Hispanic Populations; Hispanic-serving Institution; Infrastructure; Institution; Institutionalization; Interdisciplinary Study; Investments; Knowledge; Mediating; Mentors; Mexican Americans; Mexico; Minority; Modeling; Organizational Culture; Outcome; Persons; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Procedures; Process; Productivity; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Science; Scientist; Teacher Professional Development; Testing; Texas; Underrepresented Populations; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vision; Work; Workload; cohort; community building; diversity and inclusion; early-career faculty; education research; equity, diversity, and inclusion; faculty support; health disparity; health inequalities; improved; innovation; interest; intersectionality; minority health disparity; minority investigator; novel; programs; recruit; research faculty; social; success

ABSTRACT The NIH has a strong commitment to advancing diversity in the biomedical workforce but has recognized that NIH-funded institutions may lack the organizational culture required to foster and develop diverse scientists. The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation [FIRST] Program will provide a major investment toward transforming institutional culture by integrating a cohort model of faculty hires committed to diversity and inclusive excellence. The University of Texas at El Paso [UTEP] proposes the UTEP FIRST program as a framework to address the shortage of diverse research scientists who focus on Hispanic Health Disparities [HHD]. UTEP is a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution that is a focal point for education and biomedical research for people living on the United States-Mexico border. The cornerstone is the operationalization of strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI] initiatives that will provide an integrative theme for addressing the FIRST Program goals of: (1) fostering sustainable institutional culture change; (2) promoting institutional inclusive excellence by hiring a diverse cohort of new faculty; and (3) supporting faculty development, mentoring, sponsorship, and promotion. The overarching goal of the UTEP FIRST proposal is to drive significant change in the institutional culture at UTEP, thereby uplifting early-career faculty on their trajectory toward academic and research success. The vision is to be a national leader in diversifying the biomedical research workforce and a national resource for studying and implementing systemic change that support academic cultures of inclusive excellence. We will test the hypothesis that a cohort model of faculty hiring, sponsorship, continual mentoring, and professional development through evidence-based practices for fostering academic cultures of inclusive excellence will achieve significant improvements in metrics of institutional culture and scientific discovery. The FIRST cohort will involve a total of six faculty hires with research interests in minority health disparities. Three Specific Aims are integrated across three cores. The aim of the Administrative Core is to create transformative cultural and institutional changes through the framework of Inclusive Excellence, leading to supportive and inclusive environments that develop diverse faculty who excel in discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research focused on reducing HHD. The aim of the Faculty Development Core is to develop, implement and sustain a UTEP FIRST program that builds communities of practice and integrates innovative infrastructures, leading to transformative and sustainable changes in policies, procedures, and processes that foster the retention, progression, and promotion of diverse faculty. The aim of the Evaluation Core is to foster and institutionalize program improvement and sustainability by testing the primary hypothesis through documentation of faculty, department, and institutional level metrics and indicators. Expected findings will exert a powerful influence by fostering a sustainable institutional culture change, thereby providing UTEP with the foundation needed for thriving at the intersectionality of research, culture, diversity, and inclusion.

摘要 NIH坚定地致力于推进生物医学劳动力的多样性，但也认识到， NIH资助的机构可能缺乏培养和发展多样化科学家所需的组织文化。的 NIH教师机构招聘可持续转型[第一]计划将提供一个主要的 通过整合承诺聘用教师的队列模型， 多样性和包容性的卓越。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）提出了UTEP FIRST计划。 该计划作为一个框架，以解决缺乏专注于西班牙裔健康的多样化研究科学家的问题 差异[HHD]。UTEP是一个少数民族/西班牙裔服务机构，是教育和 为生活在美国和墨西哥边境的人们进行生物医学研究。基石是 实施战略多样性，公平和包容性[DEI]倡议， 实现FIRST计划目标的主题：（1）促进可持续的机构文化变革;（2） 通过雇用多样化的新教师队伍来促进机构的包容性卓越;以及（3）支持教师 发展、指导、赞助和推广。UTEP FIRST提案的总体目标是 推动UTEP机构文化的重大变革，从而提升早期职业教师的职业生涯 走向学术和研究成功的轨迹。我们的愿景是成为多样化的国家领导者， 生物医学研究人员和研究和实施系统性变革的国家资源， 支持包容性卓越的学术文化。我们将检验一个假设，即一个教师群体模型 招聘，赞助，持续的指导，并通过循证实践的专业发展， 培养包容性卓越的学术文化将实现重大改进的指标， 机构文化和科学发现。第一批将涉及总共六名教师聘用与研究 少数民族的健康差距。三个特定目标集成在三个核心上。的目的 行政核心是通过以下框架创造变革性的文化和体制变革： 包容性卓越，导致支持性和包容性的环境，发展多样化的教师谁擅长 特定学科和跨学科研究的重点是减少HHD。教师发展的目标 核心是开发，实施和维持UTEP FIRST计划，建立实践社区， 整合创新的基础设施，导致政策，程序， 以及促进多元化教师的保留、发展和晋升的过程。评价的目的 核心是通过检验主要假设，促进项目的改进和可持续性，并使之制度化 通过记录教师，部门和机构层面的指标和指标。预期结果 将通过促进可持续的机构文化变革发挥强大的影响力，从而提供UTEP 在研究，文化，多样性和包容性的交叉性中蓬勃发展所需的基础。