I-Corps: Career Advancement for STEM Faculty through Summer Writing Retreats and Online Communities

I-Corps：通过夏季写作静修和在线社区促进 STEM 教师的职业发展

• 批准号: 1519704
• 负责人: Loretta Moore
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519704&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Career; Advancement; STEM; Faculty

Women of color in STEM disciplines at HBCUs often have a series of needs which, when met, have a positive impact on professional development and career advancement. Such faculty teach 3-4 courses per semester at a minority serving institution (or primarily undergraduate institution), or are a minority within their department and, therefore, tend to have high student advising/mentoring demands; or are early career faculty who may have difficulty negotiating the competing demands of teaching, service, and research. They may even be mid-career faculty who are seeking to develop a steady track record of contribution to the discipline; and faculty who need coaching to navigate the campus climate while maintaining a solid record of research and make progress toward tenure and promotion. Currently, these needs are not being met fully at most institutions. When they are partially met it is through faculty development efforts that are often not discipline specific or are through an individual scholar's search for a career mentor or collaborator who may or may not be in the scholar's field of study. The overall purpose of this proposal is to provide summer writing retreats with online intellectual community follow-up services to the higher education community to increase scholarly productivity and career advancement of women of color in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines while also being applicable to diverse scholars in other disciplines, especially those from underrepresented groups.Building from the knowledge gained from a previously funded research project, this team proposes to explore the feasibility of commercializing the following scholarly productivity resources: (1) a one week, in-residence Summer Writing Retreat; (2) a nine-week online service featuring access to accountability coaches and STEM consultants to facilitate completion of the summer writing project; and (3) an online academic year follow-up resource which includes expanded access to scholarly writing productivity tools such as peer writing groups, facilitated career advancement discussion groups, research and scholarly agenda planning tools, daily writing plans, and peer productivity partners. The products provided will increase the scholarly productivity of individual faculty consumers while also supporting institutional consumers in the acquisition of a heightened awareness of the types of coaching, accountability, and collaboration that are necessary to recruit, retain, and support other underrepresented populations in their advancement in STEM academic careers.

HBCUS的STEM学科有色女性通常会有一系列的需求，这些需求在满足时会对专业发展和职业发展产生积极影响。这样的教师每学期在少数派服务机构（或主要是本科机构）教授3-4个课程，或者是其部门内的少数派，因此，往往有很高的学生建议/指导要求；或者是早期的职业教师，他们可能难以谈判教学，服务和研究的竞争要求。 他们甚至可能是中级教师，他们正在寻求发展对学科贡献的稳定记录。以及需要教练在校园气候中导航的教师，同时保持稳定的研究记录并取得了任期和晋升的进步。目前，在大多数机构中，这些需求尚未得到充分满足。当他们被部分遇到时，是通过教师的发展工作通常不是特定学科的，或者是通过个人学者寻找职业导师或合作者的搜索，他们可能会或可能不在学者的研究领域。 该提案的总体目的是为高等教育社区提供夏季写作务虚会，以提高学术生产力和职业生产力和职业发展，在科学，技术，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科中，有色妇女的职业发展，同时也适用于其他学科的多元学者，尤其是从知识群体中探索的培训的宗教学者，这些阶级的发展依据。商业化以下学术生产力资源：（1）一周，居住的夏季写作静修； （2）为期九周的在线服务，其中包括访问问责制教练和STEM顾问，以促进完成夏季写作项目； （3）在线学年的后续资源，包括扩大对学术写作生产力工具的访问，例如同伴写作小组，促进职业发展讨论小组，研究和学术议程计划工具，日常写作计划以及同行生产力合作伙伴。 所提供的产品将提高个人教师消费者的学术生产力，同时还支持机构消费者获得对教练，问责制和协作类型的提高认识，这些意识是为了招募，保留和支持其他代表性不足的人群在STEM学术职业中的进步中所必需的。