Assessing Institutional Assets, Vulnerabilities, and Synergies and using a STEM Mentoring Ecosystem Framework: A Multi-institution, Interdisciplinary Workshop

许多学院和大学都渴望使STEM学生群体多样化，为学生创造更包容、更公平的学习环境。与此同时，许多国家的资源有限，基础设施不够完善。使用一个集成了机构STEM指导生态系统的所有组成部分的系统，可以在一系列人口统计数据中产生实质性和持久的变化。该项目建立在最近开发的stem -辅导生态系统（STEM-ME）框架的基础上，该框架有助于对与辅导相关的机构优势、脆弱性、协同作用和脱节进行自我评估。鉴于许多针对学生、员工或教师的指导项目本质上是孤立的，生态系统方法将促进更可持续、更有效的基础设施。STEM-ME框架将有助于利用资源，建立协同效应，并在不同的、有时是孤立的机构努力中整合最佳做法。该项目将召集由来自多个机构的团队组成的研讨会，他们将参与学习和应用STEM-ME框架，以改善当地的指导生态系统。在讨论的基础上，每个校园团队将修改STEM-ME材料，使其适用于当地的情况。研讨会的成果将包括对校园的新见解、新的资源材料以及关于各种机构类型的共同资产和脆弱性的新知识。现有研究在个体关系层面对STEM师徒关系的障碍和结果进行了大量研究，但在机构和跨机构层面的研究较少。美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院最近发布的一份关于“STEM中有效指导的科学”（2019年）的报告，越来越多地关注改善指导环境，以留住来自各个阶层的STEM人才。该提案将试点一项研究，该研究使用stem指导生态系统（STEM-ME）框架来实现制度实践的变革，以实现更加包容和公平的环境。会议将为来自多个校园的团队提供机会，让他们了解和制定STEM-ME框架的具体蓝图。本次研讨会的目标是：(1)改善STEM指导生态系统，特别是针对不同校园类型的少数族裔学生；(2)建立机制（包括白皮书和自我指导模块），帮助校园评估自己的校园基础设施，确定联系/协同作用，并加强其基础设施，以提供高质量、包容性的STEM辅导；(3)协助参与的校园及其领导人开始这一进程，并以有意义的方式为这一进程作出贡献；(4)向STEM指导生态系统的利益相关者反映存在共同弱点和优势领域的情况。合作研讨会将包括两个必修会议和一个可选会议。第一部分将介绍STEM-ME框架和绘图工作表，以及多机构团队介绍。第二部分包括分享校园特定的指导生态系统地图，并讨论校园之间的共同点和差异。最后，可选的第三次会议将允许每个团队与其中一名协调员进行一对一的咨询会议。该提案的更广泛影响包括创建工具（例如STEM- me映射工作表、白皮书、机构行动计划），这些工具将帮助校园加强STEM指导基础设施。多名研究生和本科生将获得STEM组织变革的研究培训。来自多个校园的少数族裔背景的本科生和研究生将受益于改进的STEM指导基础设施。该奖项由分子和细胞生物科学部（MCB）、综合有机体系统部（IOS）支持。生物科学局（BIO）内的环境生物学（DEB）和生物基础设施（DBI）以及社会、行为和经济科学局（SBE）内的多学科活动办公室。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。

Many colleges and universities aspire to diversify their STEM student bodies and create more inclusive and equitable learning environments for the students. At the same time, many struggle with limited resources and less-than-optimal infrastructure. Using a system that integrates all components of an institutional STEM mentoring ecosystem can have greater potential for making substantive and lasting changes across a range of demographics. This project builds upon a recently-developed STEM-Mentoring Ecosystems (STEM-ME) framework that facilitates self-assessment of institutional strengths, vulnerabilities, synergies and disconnects related to mentoring. Given that many mentoring programs targeted at students, staff, or faculty are siloed in nature, an ecosystems approach will facilitate a more sustainable and effective infrastructure. The STEM-ME framework will facilitate the leveraging of resources, building of synergies and integration of best practices across a diverse and at times isolated set of institutional efforts. This project will convene workshops comprised of teams from multiple institutions who will engage in learning about and applying the STEM-ME framework to improve their local mentoring ecosystems. Based on discussions, each campus team will revise the STEM-ME materials to make them applicable to their local situations. Outcomes of the workshop will include new insights for campuses, new resource materials, and new knowledge about common assets and vulnerabilities across a range of institutional types.There is abundant extant research on barriers and outcomes of STEM mentoring at the individual relationship level, but less is known at the institutional and cross-institutional levels. A recent report on “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM” (2019) by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has brought increased attention to improving mentoring environments to retain STEM talent from all segments of the population. This proposal will pilot a study that uses a STEM-Mentoring Ecosystems (STEM-ME) framework to effect changes in institutional practice towards a more inclusive and equitable environment. Sessions will be convened to provide teams from several campuses opportunities to learn about and craft their institution-specific blueprint of the STEM-ME framework. The goals of this workshop are: (1) to improve the STEM mentoring ecosystems particularly for minoritized students across campus types; (2) to develop mechanisms (including a white paper and self-guided module) that helps campuses to assess their own campus infrastructure, identify connections/synergies, and strengthen their infrastructure for high-quality, inclusive STEM mentoring; (3) to assist participating campuses, and their leaders, begin this process and contribute to this process in a meaningful way; and, (4) to reflect back to stakeholders of STEM mentoring ecosystems where there are common vulnerabilities and areas of strength. The collaborative workshop will consist of two required sessions and an optional session. The first session will involve an introduction of the STEM-ME framework and mapping worksheet and multi-institutional team introductions. The second session involves sharing of campus-specific mentoring ecosystem maps and discussions of commonalities and differences between campuses. Finally, the optional third session will allow each team to have a one-on-one consulting session with one of the facilitators. The broader impacts of the proposal include the creation of tools (e.g. STEM-ME mapping worksheet, white paper, institutional action plans) that will help campuses enhance their STEM mentoring infrastructure. Multiple graduate and undergraduate students will gain research training on organizational change in STEM. Undergraduate and graduate students from racially minoritized backgrounds on multiple campuses will benefit from improved STEM mentoring infrastructure. This award is supported by the Divisions of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS). Environmental Biology (DEB), and Biological Infrastructure (DBI) within the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE).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.