MyChoice

 描述(由申请者提供)：芝加哥大学生物科学部(BSD)有着传统的学术研究文化，培训和接触主要集中在学院的研究职业道路上。然而，毕业十年后，不到四分之一(~21%)的受训人员成为研究密集型机构的教员。在接受调查时，86%的实习生受访者支持更协调一致的努力，为他们在学术界以外的工作做好准备，超过90%的教职员工受访者认为，应该让他们的学员接触到一系列利用他们的培训的职业选择。一些有进取心的博士后和博士后已经开始利用BSD以外的翻译和教育培训计划。这些项目的主要合作者包括我们的布斯商学院(经常排名世界第一)、其波尔斯基创业中心和我们的技术开发和风险投资中心(UChicago)。该大学新的卓越教学中心也吸引了越来越多的人参与。这些努力反映出，在实习生需求和教师就业机会减少的现实推动下，一种文化正在显著转向更广泛地参与创新和跨学科合作。在校长、教务长和院长的坚定支持下，我们提出了一项名为芝加哥职业赋权(My-Choose)的计划，以系统地提供BSD“入口”，以链接、合法化、利用并帮助发展这些计划，扩大我们博士后和博士后实习生的职业暴露机会。我们正在与芝加哥理工大学、波尔斯基大学和来自生物技术、创业、医学、科学政策和法律、科学传播、教学和管理等职业领域的广泛的内部和外部个人网络合作，以制定和实施这一计划。我们将大大扩展现有的博士后和生物技术协会研讨会系列，以提供广泛的职业道路展示，创建一系列迷你课程，以便在职业领域进行更深入的教育，并引导学员在重点领域获得越来越多的更深层次经验。我们将使用现有的基础设施，不会增加培训时间。我们还将在一个名为芝加哥创新交易所的新设施中举办MyChoice项目的一部分，这是一个加速器/孵化器/活动空间，将MyChoice活动与许多追求非学术职业的博士范例一起定位。我们开发了一项创新的评估计划，以测试以下假设：更广泛地参与MyChoice预示着更大的学员职业选择授权、对所选职业的满意度，以及FASEB myIDPCareer适合度评估和职业选择之间的相关性改善。我们还试图量化学业“成本”(受训者愿意为成为一名学者而牺牲的薪水/生活方式)在“我的选择”课程中取得进步的变化。我们将在大学内外建立强大的双向传播机制，分享和学习其他最好的项目。我们的提案得到了极其强有力的机构支持，并致力于在供资期限之后实现可持续性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division (BSD) has a traditional culture of academic research with training and exposure focused predominantly on research career paths in the academy. Yet ten years post-graduation, less than one-quarter (~21%) of our trainees become faculty members in a research-intensive institution. When surveyed, 86% of our trainee respondents supported a more concerted effort to prepare them for jobs outside academia and over 90% of faculty respondents believed their mentees should be provided exposure to a range of career options that use their training. A few enterprising pre- and postdocs have begun to capitalize on expanding translational and education-training programming outside the BSD. Major collaborators in these programs include our Booth School of Business (regularly ranked #1 in the world), its Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, and our Center for Technology Development & Ventures (UChicagoTech). The University's new Center for Teaching Excellence has also attracted growing participation. These efforts reflect a culture shifting significantly towards broader engagement with innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, fueled by trainee demand and the reality of fewer faculty job opportunities. With solid support of the President, Provost, and Deans of the University, we propose a program, Chicago Options-In-Careers Empowerment (my- CHOICE), to systematically provide a BSD "on-ramp" to link to, legitimize, leverage, and help grow these pro- grams, expanding career exposure offerings to our pre- and postdoctoral trainees. We are partnering with UChicagoTech, Polsky and a vast network of internal and external individuals we call "Mentors" from career areas including biotech, entrepreneurship, medicine, science policy and law, science communication, teaching, and administration to develop and implement this program. We will greatly expand existing Postdoc and Bio- tech Association seminar series to provide broad career path EXPOSURE, create a range of mini-courses for more in-depth EDUCATION in career domains, and guide trainees to a growing set of opportunities for deeper EXPERIENCE in areas of focus. We will use existing infrastructure, and add no extension to training time. We will also hold a portion of the myCHOICE programming in a new facility, the Chicago Innovation Exchange, an accelerator/incubator/event space, to locate myCHOICE events alongside many exemplars of PhDs pursuing non-academic careers. We have developed an innovative evaluation plan to test the hypotheses that more extensive participation in myCHOICE predicts greater trainee career choice empowerment, satisfaction with chosen career, and improved correlation between the FASEB myIDPCareer Fit assessment and career selection. We seek also to quantify the change in academic "cost" (the salary/lifestyles trainees would sacrifice to be an academic) as they progress through myCHOICE. We will establish strong bidirectional dissemination mecha- nisms, within and outside the University, to share and learn from other BEST programs. Our proposal enjoys extremely strong institutional support and commitment to sustainability beyond the funding period.