IRACDA at University of Illinois at Chicago

伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校 (UIC) 是一所城市研究密集型大学，致力于服务和 教育来自不同背景和服务水平低下的学生。 UIC 在提供教育方面处于全国领先地位 少数族裔服务、西班牙裔服务和亚裔服务的地位表明了代表性不足的少数族裔 美洲和美洲原住民太平洋岛民服务机构。我们提出芝加哥地区卓越奖 教育与研究（职业）计划，旨在提供严格且平衡的团队培训 在教学和研究方面向多元化的博士后研究员群体提供帮助，目标是培养具有以下能力的学者： 具备成为研究和教学密集型机构的学术界领导者的充分条件。职业是 UIC 与州长州立大学 (GSU) 合作，GSU 是芝加哥南部唯一的公立大学 郊区和一所学校不仅拥有多元化的学生群体，而且拥有高度多元化的教师队伍。与 在 UIC 职业计划中，我们将 1) 招募并留住多元化的 IRACDA 学者并定制培训 个人职业目标/轨迹； 2）构建研究密集型培训经验，以支持 学者成功过渡到教职职位； 3) 与 GSU 设计合作课程进行培训 学者们掌握卓越教学所需的核心能力。通过利用强有力的制度 来自 UI 癌症中心、CCTS、教学中心和多样性办公室的支持 计划填补了一个自然的空白。芝加哥或任何其他中西部城市不仅没有 IRACDA 计划 城市，但 UIC 目前没有支持和准备博士后成为教育工作者的培训计划 以及我们多元化社区中的研究人员。 CAREER项目将汇集UIC的教师 药学院和医学院建立合作伙伴关系以支持研究和职业 研究员的发展，而州长州立大学将为发展教学技能提供支持 在本科院校。该项目的结构不仅可以培养博士后研究员，还可以帮助 巩固 GSU 学生加入 UIC 研究生或专业课程的渠道。关系也将 促进 GSU 和 UIC 教师之间的合作，鼓励新的研究项目并发展一种文化 教育多元化的科学家群体。该计划将鼓励博士后研究员参与 在药剂学和医学领域资金雄厚的导师实验室中进行最先进的研究项目，重点关注广泛的领域 与 NIGMS 目标相关的各种研究。研究员将参加教学和职业发展研讨会 在 UIC 和 GSU 都有。他们还将在导师团队的指导下获得专业发展 继续利用 IDP 来确保在获得资金、出版物和网络方面取得足够进展。 学者们将有机会教授基于实验室的课程、入门讲座课程，并介绍新的知识 GSU 课程中缺少健康前课程内容。总体而言，拟议的职业计划有助于 通过为不同人群培训教育工作者作为研究人员、导师和教师来履行 UIC 的使命。

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is an urban, research intensive university committed to serving and educating students from diverse and underserved backgrounds. UIC is a national leader in providing education to under-represented minorities as demonstrated by its status as a Minority Serving, Hispanic Serving, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving institution. We propose the Chicago ARea Excellence in Education & Research (CAREER) program, designed to provide rigorous and balanced team-based training in both teaching and research to a diverse group of postdoctoral fellows, with the goal of producing scholars who are well-equipped to be leaders in academia at research- and teaching-intensive institutions alike. CAREER is a partnership between UIC and Governors State University (GSU), the only public university in Chicago's south suburban area and a school that boasts not only a diverse student body, but also a highly diverse faculty. With the UIC CAREER program we will 1) recruit and retain a diverse cohort of IRACDA scholars and tailor training for individual career goals/trajectories; 2) structure a research-intensive training experience that supports a successful transition of scholars to faculty positions; and 3) design a collaborative curriculum with GSU to train scholars in the core competencies required for excellence in teaching. By drawing upon strong institutional support from the UI Cancer Center, CCTS, Teaching and Learning Center, and the Office of Diversity, our program fills a natural void. Not only are there no IRACDA programs in Chicago or any other urban Midwestern city, but UIC currently has no training programs that support and prepare postdoctoral fellows to be educators and researchers within our diverse community. The CAREER program will bring together faculty from the UIC Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine into a collaborative partnership to support the research and career development of fellows, while Governors State University will provide the support for developing teaching skills at an undergraduate institution. The structure of the program will not only train postdoctoral fellows, but also help to solidify a pipeline for GSU students to join graduate or professional programs at UIC. The relationship will also foster collaboration between GSU and UIC faculty to encourage new research programs and to develop a culture of educating a diverse community of scientists. The program will encourage postdoctoral fellows to participate in state-of-the-art research programs in well-funded mentor labs from Pharmacy and Medicine focused on a wide variety of research related to NIGMS goals. Fellows will engage in teaching and career development workshops at both UIC and GSU. They will also develop professionally under the guidance of a mentoring team with continued use of the IDP to ensure adequate progress in obtaining funding, publications, and networking. Scholars will have the opportunity to teach in lab based courses, introductory lecture courses, and introduce new pre-health course content missing from the GSU curriculum. Overall, the proposed CAREER program helps to fulfill the mission of UIC by training educators for diverse populations as researchers, mentors, and teachers.