Consortium for the National Research Mentoring Network

描述(由申请人提供)：有大量证据表明，从本科生到教授的所有级别的生物医学劳动力中，少数民族的代表性都很低。我们国家不断变化的人口结构将很快导致大学适龄人口成为占多数的未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)和女性，这使得必须采取新的干预措施，以保持美国在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的竞争力。我们已经创建了一个由25个主流生物医学科学学会、少数族裔科学组织、大学STEM少数族裔项目和非营利性组织组成的联盟，其中有4个建筑规划拨款申请者，以开发国家研究指导网络的规划拨款。这些合作伙伴中的大多数都有很长的互动历史，这使得开发这样一个大型网络是可行的。这些联合会成员都有为URM和其他代表性不足的群体制定指导计划的良好记录，这些群体包括科学界的女性、残疾人和男女同性恋者和变性人(LGBTQ)科学家。我们提议共同努力，发展一个全国性的辅导网络。这些特定学科的科学学会有各种少数民族事务委员会，以概念化和实施他们的多样性努力。这些显然对将非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人、残疾人和LGBTQ学生(这里都定义为URM)纳入他们自己的生物医学研究子领域产生了积极影响。该联盟还引入了社会科学、计算机科学、通信、电子辅导、基于网络的科学视频网络和数据库以及正在进行的评估方面的专业知识，以确保我们确定以数据为基础或可进行评估并将适用于我们所有社区的技术和方法。在规划赠款期间，该联盟将努力充分发展伙伴关系，评估指导能力和最佳做法，确定新颖和创新的指导模式，并制定战略，将地方活动扩大到国家一级。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Substantial evidence exists for the underrepresentation of minorities in all levels of the biomedical workforce, from the undergraduate level to the professoriate. The fact that our country's changing demographics will result soon in a college-age population that is majority underrepresented minority (URM) and women makes it imperative that new interventions take place to keep America competitive in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). We have created a Consortium of 25 mainstream biomedical scientific societies, minority science organizations, university STEM minority programs, and non-profits with four BUILD planning grant applicants to develop a planning grant for a National Research Mentoring Network. Most of these partners have a long history of interacting making the development of such a large network feasible. These Consortium members each have a strong documented record of developing mentoring programs for URMs and other underrepresented groups including women in the sciences, the disabled and gay, lesbian and transgender (LGBTQ) scientists. We are proposing to work together to develop a national mentoring network. These discipline-specific scientific societies have various minority affairs committees to conceptualize and implement their diversity efforts. These have clearly had positive impacts on the inclusion of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, the disabled, and LGBTQ students (all here defined as URMs) in their own sub-fields of biomedical research. The Consortium also brings in expertise in social sciences, computer sciences, communications, e-mentoring, web based science video networks and databases - and ongoing evaluation - to ensure that we identify technology and approaches that are data-based or can be evaluated and will be adaptable to all of our communities. During the planning grant the Consortium will work to fully develop partnerships, assess mentoring capabilities and best practices, identify novel and innovative mentoring models, and develop strategies to scale local activities to the national level.