Rochester Partnership to Advance Research and Academic Careers in Deaf Scholars

描述（由申请人提供）：罗切斯特伙伴关系促进聋人学者的研究和学术事业的总体目标是：a)为训练有素的耳聋和听力障碍（D/HH）的生物医学和行为科学家提供在学术界从事研究和教学事业的知识和技能；b)将罗切斯特大学（UR）的教师和项目（包括其国家聋人健康研究中心（NCDHR）和临床与转化科学研究所（CTSI））与罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）的教师和项目（包括其国家聋人技术研究所（NTID））合作，其长期目标是促进合作伙伴之间的联系并加强他们在研究和教育方面的卓越表现。该计划有四个具体目标：1)为研究密集型机构UR的D/HH生物医学和行为博士学者提供指导博士后研究经验。为此，我们将利用由大学CTSI建立的完善的导师-学者计划，提供跨学科团队指导，并根据每位学者的个人发展计划，为他们确定和实现职业发展目标。我们还将利用CTSI新颖的“导师导师”计划，并将加强该计划，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RIT开展职业发展活动，并在NTID/RIT建立指导的实习教学经验，以发展项目学者的学术和教学技能，并加强和扩大RIT在生物医学和行为科学领域的教育产品；3)通过测量研究和教学培训的有效性来评估项目的成功。这将包括评估与教学和研究技能、知识和态度有关的短期目标和获得的能力；以及与教学和研究相关的长期职业发展和学业成绩的评估。我们还将衡量该项目对以下方面的影响：RIT科学教育课程的多样性；博士/硕士学生进入RIT生物医学相关和行为科学专业和项目；RIT与UR之间的研究合作；4)从全国生物医学、行为学博士培养队伍中招收3名具有博士学位的D/HH学者，每期3年，保持9名D/HH学者的稳定水平。此次招聘将建立在之前为大学招聘博士/HH博士后的经验，NTID在促进博士/HH学生的高等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市作为博士/HH文化和教育中心的全球声誉之上。这种创新的机构间合作伙伴关系是世界上第一个此类合作伙伴关系，将开始解决为听力和D/HH学生提供服务的学术机构缺乏D/HH教师的问题。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领域，而D/HH人员在这些领域的代表性非常低。

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.