MyChoice

 描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥大学生物科学部（BSD）具有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，十年毕业后，不到四分之一（约21%）的学员成为研究密集型机构的教师。在接受调查时，86%的受训者受访者支持更加协调一致的努力，为他们在学术界以外的工作做好准备，超过90%的教师受访者认为，他们的学员应该接触到一系列使用他们的培训的职业选择。一些有进取心的预科和博士后已经开始利用BSD之外的翻译和教育培训编程。这些项目的主要合作者包括我们的布斯商学院（全球排名第一），其Polsky创业中心以及我们的技术开发与风险投资中心（UChicago Tech）。该大学新的卓越教学中心也吸引了越来越多的参与者。这些努力反映了一种文化，这种文化正朝着更广泛的创新和跨学科合作转变，这是由实习生需求和教师工作机会减少的现实推动的。在校长，教务长和大学院长的大力支持下，我们提出了一个计划，芝加哥职业选择授权（我的选择），系统地提供一个BSD "入口"，以链接到，合法化，杠杆作用，并帮助发展这些计划，扩大职业机会，我们的前和博士后学员。我们正在与UChicagoTech，Polsky和一个庞大的内部和外部个人网络合作，我们称之为“导师”，来自职业领域，包括生物技术，创业，医学，科学政策和法律，科学传播，教学和管理，以开发和实施该计划。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，以提供广阔的职业道路曝光，创建一系列迷你课程，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更深入的经验。我们将使用现有的基础设施，不延长培训时间。我们还将在一个新的设施，芝加哥创新交易所，一个加速器/孵化器/活动空间，将myCHOICE活动的一部分与许多追求非学术职业的博士生的典范一起定位。我们开发了一个创新的评估计划来测试假设，即更广泛地参与myCHOICE可以预测更大的受训者职业选择授权，对所选职业的满意度，以及FASEB myIDPCareer Fit评估与职业选择之间的相关性。我们还试图量化学习“成本”的变化（学员为了成为一名学者而牺牲的工资/生活方式），因为他们通过myCHOICE取得了进步。我们将在大学内外建立强大的双向传播机制，以分享和学习其他BEST项目。我们的提案得到了非常强大的机构支持，并承诺在供资期后实现可持续性。

 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.