Conference: Supporting Mentoring in STEM Graduate Education: A Proposal for Virtual Workshops and Supporting Activities

通过该项目，研究生院理事会（CGS）将在2024年举办两个虚拟研讨会，以告知主要研究人员是否准备好响应NSF为响应2022年美国竞争法和2022年CHIPS和科学法而实施的新PAPPG要求。具体来说，研讨会将解决NSF的要求：（1）所有的建议，NSF包括指导计划的所有研究生在NSF资助的奖项;（2）机构提供导师培训和指导，并在赠款建议中描述一个计划，以提供适当的培训和监督，在负责任和道德的研究行为;和（3）每一个接受NSF大量支持的博士后学者和研究生必须有一个个人发展计划，每年更新。第一个研讨会将侧重于教师研究人员，而第二个将侧重于研究生院长和其他管理人员谁有责任扩大和加强跨STEM领域的研究生导师培训。该提案将资助指导资源和工具的识别，开发和传播，以及有前途的做法和政策，以加强研究生指导，并协助机构和个别教师应对新的NSF要求。由此产生的资源将满足一个重要的需求，即提供一套关于研究生导师制中循证和有前途的做法和政策的资源。该提案的核心目标是为服务于不同人群和EPSCoR管辖范围内的广泛机构和大学提供更容易获得的有效指导资源。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Through this project, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will host two virtual workshops in 2024 that will inform the readiness of principal investigators to respond to NSF's new PAPPG requirements implemented in response to the America COMPETES Act of 2022 and the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. Specifically, the workshops will address NSF requirements: (1) that all proposals to NSF include mentoring plans for all graduate students on NSF funded awards; (2) that institutions provide mentor training and mentorship and describe in grant proposals a plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research; and (3) that each individual postdoctoral scholar and graduate student receiving substantial NSF support must have an Individual Development Plan, updated annually. The first workshop will focus on faculty researchers while the second will focus on graduate deans and other administrators who have responsibilities for expanding and enhancing graduate mentorship training across STEM fields. The proposal will fund the identification, development, and dissemination of mentoring resources and tools as well as promising practices and policies to enhance graduate mentoring and assist institutions and individual faculty in responding to the new NSF requirements. The resulting resources will address an important need for an accessible set of resources on evidence-based and promising practices and policies in graduate mentorship. A central goal of this proposal is to provide more accessible resources on effective mentoring to a broad range of institutions and universities serving diverse populations and in EPSCoR jurisdictions.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.