Cornell program to increase faculty diversity and promote research excellence

项目总结/摘要 多样性增加了解决问题的创造力，如生物医学研究。教育工作者的多样性也 提高来自代表性不足群体的学生的成功率。因此，增加招聘和保留 代表性不足的少数民族（URM）教师将直接增加生物医学劳动力的多样性， 增加目前少数民族本科生和研究生进入美国生物医学的可能性 劳动力康奈尔大学成功地实施了增加本科生多样性的计划， 这增加了妇女在生物医学研究系的代表性。我们现在 提出计划，将增加少数民族教师的代表性与研究计划与 NIAID使命。该计划的总体目标是：1）增加我们的教师的多样性，2）建立支持性 参与者之间的互动，3）为早期职业生涯提供指导和专业发展机会 教师（ECF），使他们充分发挥潜力，学者，教师和贡献者，他们的部门，学院和 4）创造一种包容性的接受文化，以增加URM在康奈尔大学的保留率。 我们将通过四个具体目标实现这些目标。目标1.提供赠款撰写课程和技能发展 研讨会，以支持参与者的学术成功。目标2.设立访问学者补助金， 参与者的NIAID相关奖学金。目标3：开发多种形式的辅导和辅导员培训， 增加参与者在生物医学研究中取得长期成功的可能性。目标4。增加多样性 教师申请人池和URM教师雇用的百分比。总的来说，本提案中概述的方案 将直接增加康奈尔大学生物医学研究人员的多样性，并将有更多的 通过创造一批成功的URM教师，他们可以激励和培养下一个，间接地产生广泛的影响 越来越多样化的本科生和研究生的一代。

Project Summary/Abstract Diversity increases creativity in problem solving endeavors like biomedical research. Diversity of educators also improves the success of students from underrepresented groups. Thus, increasing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty will directly increase diversity of the biomedical workforce, and increase the likelihood that current minority undergraduates, and graduate students, enter the US biomedical workforce. Cornell has successfully implemented programs that have increased diversity of undergraduate and graduate students, and that have increased representation of women in the biomedical research faculty. We now propose programs that will increase representation of minority faculty with research programs aligned with the NIAID mission. The overall goals of this program are to: 1) increase the diversity of our faculty, 2) build supportive interactions among participants, 3) provide mentoring and professional development opportunities to early career faculty (ECF) so they reach full potential as scholars, teachers, and contributors to their department, college and the university, and 4) create a culture of acceptance in inclusiveness to increase retention of URM at Cornell. We will reach these goals with four specific aims. Aim 1. Provide a grant-writing course and skills development workshops to support the participant’s academic success. Aim 2. Create a visiting scholar grant to enhance the participant’s NIAID-related scholarship. Aim 3. Develop multiple forms of mentoring, and mentor training, to increase the likelihood of the participant’s long-term success in biomedical research. Aim 4. Increase the diversity of faculty applicant pools and percentage of URM faculty hired. Overall, the programs outlined in this proposal will directly increase diversity of the biomedical research workforce at Cornell University, and will have more broad effects indirectly by creating a group of successful URM faculty who can inspire and train the next generation of increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate students.