NSF Travel Support for 2020 Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop

可视化早期职业教师研讨会为研究信息可视化广泛领域的初级教师提供专门的指导。其目标是培养数据科学和可视化研究的下一代教师，以加强和多样化这一领域。这个研讨会提供了一个论坛，让初级教师可以在一个促进积极的职业发展和分享知识的环境中相互交流。由于这一领域的研究人员来自广泛的人口和技术背景，因此这次活动解决了一个重要而及时的需求。许多院系最多只有一名可视化研究人员，因此，初级教师从其所在机构获得的指导无法解决在该领域建立学术生涯的独特挑战。来自代表性不足群体的初级教师将被鼓励参加。研讨会的经验将支持和保留研究人员和教育工作者在可视化重要领域的跨学科工作，使决策和知识发现成为可能。特别地，这个工作坊补充了传统的学术指导，为初级教师提供同伴支持和指导小组，以便与同伴交流信息。刚刚从初级职业阶段过渡到中期职业阶段的教师也会参与，帮助构建研讨会的内容并提供指导。这个活动促进了新教师的成长和发展，因为他们开始了他们的学术生涯。其独特的小团体形式产生了一个密集的研讨会，有助于建立身份，并将新来者与全国各地可视化学术界的更大生态系统联系起来。这群与会者经过精心策划，以提供不同的观点，而这些观点可能不会出现在每个与会者的家庭部门。由于可视化研究的范围很广，我们的与会者来自多所大学，这些大学为广泛的学生提供服务，也为多个领域（如计算机科学、信息科学、计算媒体和数字人文科学）的部门提供服务。因此，研讨会主题涵盖了许多交叉关注点，例如开发可视化研究计划，招聘和管理研究小组，处理教学和服务的学术责任，以及协作策略，实现可见性，以及工作与生活的平衡。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop offers specialized mentoring to junior faculty whose research spans broad areas in information visualization. Its goal is to develop the next generation of faculty in data science and visualization research so as to strengthen and diversify this field. This workshop provides a forum where junior faculty can interact with each other in a setting that promotes positive career growth and contributes to sharing knowledge. This event addresses both an important and timely need, as researchers in this field come from a wide array of demographic and technical backgrounds. Many departments have at most one researcher in visualization, and thus the mentoring the junior faculty receive from their home institution cannot address the unique challenges of building an academic career in this field. Junior faculty from underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate. The workshop experience will support and retain this interdisciplinary workforce of researchers and educators in the important area visualization that enables decision making and knowledge discovery.Specifically, this workshop complements traditional academic mentoring by offering a peer support and mentoring group for junior faculty so as to exchange information with peers. Faculty recently transitioning from junior to mid-career stages also participate to help structure the content of the workshop and provide guidance. This event fosters the growth and development of new faculty as they begin their careers in academia. Its unique, small group format produces an intensive workshop that helps build identity as well as to bridge newcomers to the larger ecosystem of academics in visualization across the country. The group of attendees is curated so as to offer diverse perspectives that might not appear in each attendee's home department. Since visualization research is broad in scope, our attendees hail from multiple universities that serve a wide range of students as well as departments in multiple fields (such as Computer Science, Information Science, Computational Media, and Digital Humanities). Therefore, workshop topics span numerous cross-cutting concerns such as developing a visualization research program, recruiting and managing a research group, handling the academic responsibilities of teaching and service, and strategies for collaboration, achieving visibility, and work-life balance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.