National Institute for Mentoring Early Minority Faculty in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管经过多年的讨论、研究和推动变革的努力，美国研究型大学中黑人、西班牙裔、美洲原住民和其他未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）教师的存在与他们在美国人口中的代表性之间仍然存在巨大差距。这一事实在神经科学和其他学科中同样适用。此外，获得教师地位的urm似乎比他们的大多数同行以更低的比率达到传统的成功标准。虽然缺乏关于出版物和资助率的数据，但urm在研究型大学担任正教授或主席、专题讨论会发言人、期刊编辑或社会官员等明显重要职位的情况令人震惊。我们相信这两个问题是相互关联的，如果那些教员教员在这些措施上更成功，这反过来会刺激其他教员教员大量涌入。我们对美国现有项目的评估强烈表明，充分帮助URM早期职业教师克服这些困难的机会有限，这正是我们寻求通过建立国家早期职业研究所（ECI）来解决的问题，以促进研究型大学神经科学领域初级教师的进步。根据发表论文的质量和数量以及提交、评分和资助的研究资助提案，我们建议建立一个基于以下假设的ECI：URM早期神经科学教职员工的成功可以通过一个密集的个性化教育计划来大幅提高，该计划侧重于(1)接触基础神经科学的前沿研究，(2)增加疾病神经生物学的背景，(3)专业技能和负责任的研究行为（RCR）的指导，(4)扩大网络的发展，以及(5)由现有教师经常指导。为了验证这一假设，我们希望建立一个国家早期职业研究所（ECI）来促进URM教师的发展。首先，我们每年将选出10名在神经科学领域的URM教职员工，他们处于职业生涯的早期阶段，有很大的成功希望。然后，我们将为每个被选中的参与者制定个性化的职业发展计划，参与者和指导团队将共同制定职业发展计划。为了促进这一计划，我们将建立一个为期一年的教育计划，包括(a)研讨会，(b)指导参加专业科学会议，(c)协助扩大他们的网络，以及(d)促进参与者之间沟通的列表服务。将仔细评估我们努力的影响，并在会议上和发表的文章中传播结果。我们相信，这种方法将对URM神经科学教师早期职业生涯的成功产生重大影响，也将成为许多其他学术界领域项目的典范。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite many years of discussion, research, and efforts to promote change, a great disparity remains between the presence of black, Hispanic, Native American, and other underrepresented minority (URM) faculty at US research universities and their representation in the American population. This reality is no less true in te neurosciences than in other disciplines. Moreover, URMs who do achieve faculty status appear to achieve traditional measures of success at a lower rate than do their majority counterparts. Although data on publications and funding rates appear to be lacking, there is a striking absence of URMs in visible positions of prominence as full professors or chairs at research universities and as symposia speakers, journal editors, or societal officers. We believe that these two problems are related - that if those URMs who are faculty become more successful in regard to those measures, this in turn will stimulate an influx of other URMs into faculty ranks. Our evaluation of available programs in the United States strongly indicates that there are limited opportunities to adequately assist early career URM faculty in overcoming these difficulties, and it is this problem that we seek to address through the establishment of a nationa Early Career Institute (ECI) to promote the advancement of junior faculty members in the neurosciences at research universities. Defining success for such faculty in terms of quality and quantity of manuscripts published and research grant proposals submitted, scored, and funded, we propose to establish an ECI based on the following hypothesis: The success of early career URM faculty members in neuroscience can be increased substantially by an intensive individualized educational program focused on (1) exposure to cutting edge research in basic neuroscience, (2) increased background on the neurobiology of disease, (3) instruction in professional skills and the responsible conduct of research (RCR), (4) development of an expanded network, and (5) frequent mentoring by established faculty. To test this hypothesis we wish to establish a national Early Career Institute (ECI) to advance the development of URM faculty. We will begin by identifying 10 URM faculty members in the neuroscience each year who are early in their career and have great promise for success. We will then develop individualized career development programs for each participant selected and together the participant and mentoring team will develop a career development plan. To facilitate that plan we will establish a one- year educational program consisting of (a) workshops, (b) mentored attendance at professional scientific meetings, (c) assistance in the expansion of their network, and (d) a listserv to promote communication among the participants. The impact of our efforts will be carefully evaluated and the results disseminated at meetings and in published articles. We believe that this approach will have a significant impact on the success of early career URM faculty in the neurosciences and will also serve as a model for programs in many other areas of academia.