Rochester Partnership to Advance Research and Academic Careers in Deaf Scholars

描述（由申请人提供）：罗切斯特合作伙伴关系的总体目标，以推进聋人学者的研究和学术事业是：a）提供训练有素的生物医学和行为科学家谁是聋人和听力障碍（D/HH）的知识和技能，在学术界从事研究和教学事业;和B）与罗切斯特大学（UR）的教师和课程合作，包括其国家聋人健康研究中心（NCDHR）和临床和转化科学研究所（CTSI），与罗切斯特理工学院（RIT），包括其国家聋人技术研究所（NTID）的合作，长期目标是促进合作伙伴之间的联系，加强其在研究和教育方面的卓越表现。该计划有四个具体目标：1）在UR（一个研究密集型机构）为D/HH生物医学和行为博士学者开发指导性博士后研究经验。为此，我们将利用UR CTSI建立的完善的导师-学者计划，提供跨学科团队指导，并定义和满足每个学者的职业发展目标，如他们的个人发展计划所述。我们还将利用CTSI新颖的“导师导师”计划，并将加强这一计划，以提高UR教师的D/HH文化能力，以及他们有效指导D/HH学者的能力; 2）在UR建立职业发展活动，并在NTID/RIT建立指导性的实习教学经验，以发展计划学者的学术和教学技能，加强和扩大RIT在生物医学和行为科学领域的教育服务; 3）通过衡量研究和教学培训的有效性来评估计划的成功。这将包括评估短期目标和与教学和研究技能、知识和态度有关的能力;以及评估与教学和研究有关的长期职业发展和学业成绩。我们还将衡量该计划对以下方面的影响：RIT科学教育产品的多样性; D/HH学生进入RIT生物医学相关和行为科学专业和课程; RIT和UR之间的研究合作;和4）从具有生物医学和行为学博士学位的D/HH人员的国家人才库中招募3名学者进行为期3年的培训，在任何时候都有9名D/HH学者。本次招聘将建立在之前招募D/HH博士后研究员到UR的经验，NTID在促进D/HH学生中学后教育和职业发展的国家网络中的领导作用，以及纽约州罗切斯特作为D/HH文化和教育中心的全球声誉的基础上。这种创新的机构间合作伙伴关系是世界上第一个将开始解决D/HH教师在学术机构服务听力和D/HH学生的缺乏。一个长期的结果将是吸引更多的D/HH学者进入生物医学和行为科学的职业生涯，在这些领域D/HH的人大大不足。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goals of the Rochester Partnership to Advance Research and Academic Careers in Deaf Scholars are: a) to provide highly trained biomedical and behavioral scientists who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (D/HH) with the knowledge and skills to pursue research and teaching careers in academia; and b) to partner the faculty and programs of the University of Rochester (UR), including its National Center for Deaf Health Research (NCDHR) and Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), with those of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), including its National Technical Institute fo the Deaf (NTID), with the long term objective of promoting linkages between the partners and strengthening their excellence in research and education. The program has four specific aims: 1) To develop a mentored postdoctoral research experience for D/HH biomedical and behavioral PhD Scholars at the UR, a research-intensive institution. To do this, we will leverage the well-developed Mentor-Scholar Program established by the UR CTSI, to provide interdisciplinary team mentoring and to define and meet career development goals for each Scholar, as set forth in their Individual Development Plan. We will also take advantage of the CTSI's novel "Mentor the Mentor" Program, and will enhance this program to increase the D/HH cultural competency of UR faculty, and their ability to effectively mentor D/HH Scholars; 2) To establish career development activities at UR and a mentored practicum teaching experience at NTID/RIT to develop the academic and teaching skills of program Scholars, and to strengthen and expand educational offerings at RIT in the areas of biomedical and behavioral science; 3) To evaluate program success, by measuring the effectiveness of training in both research and teaching. This will include assessment of short-term objectives and acquired competencies related to teaching and research skills, knowledge and attitudes; and evaluation of long-term career development and academic performance outcomes related to teaching and research. We will also measure the impact of the program on: the diversity of science educational offerings at RIT; entry by D/HH students into biomedically-related and behavioral science majors and programs at RIT; research collaborations between RIT and UR; and 4) To recruit 3 Scholars from a national pool of D/HH persons with biomedical and behavioral doctorates for 3-year periods of training, for a steady state of 9 D/HH Scholars at any one time. This recruitment will build on prior experience of recruiting D/HH postdoctoral fellows to UR, NTID's leadership role in the national networks that promote postsecondary education and career development in D/HH students, and the global reputation of Rochester, NY as a center for D/HH culture and education. This innovative inter-institutional partnership is the first of its kind in the world an will begin to address the dearth of D/HH faculty at academic institutions serving both hearing and D/HH students. A long-term outcome will be the attraction of more D/HH Scholars into careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, fields in which D/HH persons are greatly under-represented.