Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA)

摘要 尽管进行了多年的讨论、研究和促进变革的努力，但仍存在巨大的差距 非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、土著美国人、残疾人和其他人的存在 美国研究型大学中代表不足的少数族裔(URM)教师及其在美国的代表性 人口。这一现实在神经科学中并不比在其他学科中更真实。此外，这样做的URM 获得教员地位似乎比他们大多数人获得成功的传统衡量标准要低 对口单位。尽管有关出版物和资金率的数据似乎很缺乏，但这一数据的缺失令人震惊。 在显要位置担任大学教授或主席和研讨会演讲者的城市管理委员会， 期刊编辑或社会官员。我们认为这两个问题是相关的-如果那些 教员在这些措施方面变得更成功，这反过来又会刺激其他城市管理机构的涌入 进入教职员工队伍。我们对美国现有项目的评估表明，机会有限 以充分帮助早期职业URM教员克服这些困难，这正是我们寻求的问题 通过代表不足的成瘾研究中心(CURA)促进进步 研究型大学从事药物成瘾研究的初级教员。定义这些教职员工的成功 就手稿、已提交的赠款和所获资金的质量和数量而言，在国家一级的知名度， 通过参与者对他人的指导和推广，我们建议建立一个基于以下内容的计划 假设：早期职业URM教员在药物成瘾研究方面的成功可以大幅增加 通过专注于(1)的强化个性化教育计划和个性化的职业发展计划 以及确定一支相关的导师团队(2)在专业技能和责任人方面有很强的指导 进行研究(RCR)，(3)由资深常设教员进行个性化和经常性的指导(4) 发展扩大的网络和同伴辅导；以及(5)促进和加强职业生涯 在他们自己的机构的URM教员。为了验证这一假设，我们将开发Cura程序以推进 URM教师的职业生涯。我们将每年招聘10名从事药物成瘾研究的早期职业URM教员 五年，他们有很大的成功希望。然后，我们将为每个人制定职业发展计划 参与者以及参与者和指导团队将共同制定职业发展计划。为了方便 根据该计划，我们将建立一个为期一年的教育方案，包括(A)讲习班，(B)强有力的指导，(C) 参加专业科学会议；(D)协助扩大其网络；和(E) 促进参与者之间的沟通和同行指导的机制。我们的努力所产生的影响 将对其进行评估，并在会议和出版物上散发结果。我们认为，这种做法 将对早期职业URM教员在神经科学领域的成功产生重大影响，并将作为 这是学术界其他领域项目的典范。

ABSTRACT Despite many years of discussion, research, and efforts to promote change, a great disparity remains between the presence of African American, Hispanic, Native American, People with Disabilities, and other underrepresented minority (URM) faculty at US research universities and their representation in the US population. This reality is no less true in the neurosciences than in other disciplines. Moreover, URMs who do achieve faculty status appear to achieve traditional measures of success at a lower rate than do their majority counterparts. Although data on publications and funding rates appear to be lacking, there is a striking absence of URMs in visible positions of prominence as full professors or chairs at universities and as symposia speakers, journal editors, or societal officers. We believe that these two problems are related – that if those URMs who are faculty become more successful in regard to those measures, this in turn will stimulate an influx of other URMs into faculty ranks. Our evaluation of available programs in the US indicates that there are limited opportunities to adequately assist early career URM faculty in overcoming these difficulties, and it is this problem that we seek to address through the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) to promote the advancement of junior faculty members in drug addiction research at research universities. Defining success for such faculty in terms of quality and quantity of manuscripts, grants submitted, and funded, visibility at the national level, mentoring of others by the participants, and promotion, we propose to establish a program based on the following hypothesis: The success of early career URM faculty in drug addiction research can be increased substantially by an intensive individualized educational program focused on (1) and individualized career development plan and the identification of a team of relevant mentors (2) strong instruction in professional skills and the responsible conduct of research (RCR), (3) individualized and frequent mentoring by senior established faculty (4) development of an expanded network and peer-mentoring, and (5) the promotion and enhancement of the career of URM faculty at their own institutions. To test this hypothesis, we will develop the CURA program to advance the career of URM faculty. We will recruit 10 early career URM faculty in drug addiction research each year for five years who have great promise for success. We will then develop career development programs for each participant and together the participant and mentoring team will develop a career development plan. To facilitate that plan we will establish a one-year educational program consisting of (a) workshops, (b) strong mentoring, (c) attendance at professional scientific meetings, (d) assistance in the expansion of their network, and (e) mechanisms to promote communication and peer-mentoring among the participants. The impact of our efforts will be evaluated and the results disseminated at meetings and in publications. We believe that this approach will have a significant impact on the success of early career URM faculty in the neurosciences and will serve as a model for programs in other areas of academia.