2006 Minority Faculty Development Workshop

提案名称：2006年少数民族教师发展研讨会首席研究员：吉尔达A。Barabino机构：格鲁吉亚理工学院这笔赠款为2006年少数民族教师发展讲习班提供资金，该讲习班将侧重于非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和土著美国人的教师职业。 增加代表性不足的少数民族工程教师的队伍是NSF的一个关键优先事项，以解决所有工程学科的多样性问题。 该研讨会的总体目标是：1）提供代表性不足的少数民族教师与必要的保留和进步的发展工具，2）增加颜色的科学和工程学院的数量，和3）提供一个模型，为制度化的少数民族教师发展计划，包括评估和相关的后续行动和相关活动的机制。 一般会议将举行：工程学院在21世纪世纪，从管理的观点，妇女的颜色在哥伦比亚，了解和发展与NSF和其他联邦机构的关系。讲习班将包括：指导，为研究人员写作，granitarian，发展谈判和领导技能，终身职位，连接教学和研究，平衡工作和生活以外的工作。还将组织几次关于联网和共同/确定感兴趣的专题的互动会议。 工程教育领域的杰出领导人将发表多个主题演讲。 将提供与项目经理、部门主管和来自NSF和其他联邦机构的其他管理人员互动的机会。 预计讲习班的成果将是：组织少数群体教师发展讲习班的资源材料、衡量讲习班成功和影响的评估标准、高级教师志愿者小组就手稿和赠款提案向初级教师提供反馈的机制、少数群体教师发展最佳做法准则以及讲习班参与者的网上跟踪和联网。一个非常强大，多样化的团队将组织研讨会，来自化学工程，机械工程，土木工程和其他工程学科的教师将参加。拟议的讲习班将产生广泛的影响，特别是通过增加代表性不足的少数群体教师的人数，加强他们的学术经验或成就，并加强他们与联邦供资机构的互动。 这些教师将反过来作为谁渴望学术生涯的少数民族学生的榜样。 参加研讨会的主要教育工作者的承诺和网络也可能加强从代表性不足的群体中招收学生进入工程系的研究生课程。 2006年的研讨会将寻求加强对西班牙裔工程教师的宣传，并将成立一个特别工作组来增加美洲原住民教育工作者的参与。

Proposal Title: 2006 Minority Faculty Development WorkshopPrincipal Investigator: Gilda A. BarabinoInstitution: Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis grant provides funding for the 2006 Minority Faculty Development Workshop that will focus on the faculty careers of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Increasing the ranks of underrepresented minority engineering faculty is a critical priority for NSF in order to address diversity problems in all engineering disciplines. The overall goals of the workshop are: 1) to provide underrepresented minority faculty with the developmental tools necessary for retention and advancement in academe, 2) to increase the numbers of faculty of color in science and engineering, and 3) to provide a model for an institutionalized minority faculty development program that includes mechanisms for assessment and relevant follow up and associated activities. General sessions will be held on: engineering faculty in the 21st century, the view from the administration, women of color in academe, and understanding and developing relationships with NSF and other federal agencies. Workshop sessions will include: mentoring, writing for researchers, grantsmanship, developing negotiation and leadership skills, tenure, connecting teaching and research, and balancing work and life outside of work. Several interactive sessions on networking and topics of shared/defined interest will also be organized. Prominent leaders in engineering education will give several keynote addresses. Opportunities for interaction with program managers, division directors, and other administrators from NSF and other federal agencies will be provided. Outcomes from the workshop are anticipated to be: resource materials for organizing minority faculty development workshops, assessment tolls for measuring the success and impact of the workshops, mechanisms for providing feedback on manuscripts and grants proposals to junior faculty from a panel of senior faculty volunteers, guidelines on best practices for minority faculty development, and a web-based tracking and networking for workshop participants. A very strong, diverse team will organize the workshop, and faculty from chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and other engineering disciplines will participate. The broader impacts of the proposed workshop will be extensive, particularly by improving the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty, strengthening their academic experiences or achievements, and enhancing their interactions with federal funding agencies. These faculty members will in turn serve as role models for minority students who aspire to academic careers. The recruitment of students from underrepresented groups into graduate programs in engineering departments will also likely be enhanced by the commitment and networking of the key educators attending the workshop. The 2006 workshop will seek stronger outreach to Hispanic engineering faculty and will also create a special task force to increase the participation of Native American educators.