A Collaborative Approach to Work-Based Learning in Biotechnology: Building Inclusive Lab Environments

生物技术中基于工作的学习的协作方法：建立包容性的实验室环境

• 批准号: 2055309
• 负责人: James Lewis
• 金额: $ 27.56万
• 依托单位: City College of San Francisco
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Approach; Work; Based; Learning

There is a renewed sense of urgency to develop a more diverse workforce in STEM-related fields. This project focuses on community college students from groups that are not yet equitably represented in STEM. These communities have also been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most workforce interventions to prepare students for technical positions have been based on the premise that the students simply need targeted skill training and tips on behavioral norms to be successful in these workplace cultures. This “student deficit” model puts the burden on the newcomer to navigate a work environment that is often inherently biased against people of color, women, and individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. However, as leading-edge organizations are recognizing the value of diversity, they are also realizing that they have a role to play in establishing an inclusive workplace culture. This project aims to foster the professional development of students, faculty, industry managers, and academic researchers in inclusive workplace practices. The project expects that these practices can seed true cultural change and prepare a more diverse, inclusive, and productive United States biotechnology workforce.This project at City College of San Francisco is a collaboration with the Office of Career and Professional Development at the University of California, San Francisco. Its overall goal is to build more inclusive workplace environments for community college students pursuing biotechnology education and careers. The project plans to address issues of diversity in the scientific workforce by 1) teaching industry managers and academic researchers practical ways to supervise, mentor and train future scientists inclusively and effectively, and 2) helping community college students and their instructors navigate the scientific workplace to identify inclusive workplaces and navigate barriers to inclusivity. It builds on prior work that has led to the development of a published framework for inclusive workplace practices in research laboratories, a comprehensive inclusive academic mentor and intern training, and a guided internship program that includes formative assessments and coaching. In collaboration with the California Life Sciences Institute, an organization representing hundreds of biotechnology companies, the project will invest significant resources in developing new frameworks, tools, and curriculum tailored to the needs of the biotechnology industry. Additionally, the project seeks to disseminate the trainings to other community colleges and academic research institutions. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在与STEM相关的领域中发展更多样化的劳动力有一种新的紧迫感。该项目的重点是来自STEM中尚未同样代表的团体的社区大学生。这些社区也受到19日大流行的影响不成比例的。大多数劳动力干预措施为学生准备技术职位的准备都是基于这样的前提，即学生只需要针对性的技能培训和行为规范的技巧即可在这些工作场所文化中取得成功。这种“学生防御”模型使新来者烧毁了一种工作环境，这种工作环境通常会偏向有色人种，妇女和个人的人，而这些工作环境中的人群中人数不足。但是，随着领先组织认识到多样性的价值，他们也意识到他们在建立包容性的工作场所文化中起着作用。该项目旨在促进包容性工作场所实践的学生，教职员工，行业经理和学术研究人员的专业发展。该项目期望这些实践可以播种真正的文化变革，并准备更多样化，包容和产品的美国生物技术劳动力。该项目的旧金山城市学院是与加利福尼亚大学旧金山大学的职业与专业发展办公室合作。它的总体目标是为社区大学的学生建立更具包容性的工作场所环境，从而追求生物技术教育和职业。该项目计划解决科学劳动力中多样性问题的问题1）教学行业经理和学术研究人员的实用方法，以包容和有效的方式培训未来的科学家，以及2）帮助社区大学生及其教师在科学工作场所导航，以识别包容性的工作场所，并导致障碍和障碍。它以先前的工作为基础，这导致了开发的研究实验室包容性工作场所实践的框架，全面的包容性学术和实习生培训以及包括形成性评估和教练的指导实习计划。该项目与代表数百家生物技术公司的组织与加利福尼亚生命科学研究所（California Life Sciences Institute）合作，该项目将投入大量资源，以开发满足生物技术行业需求的新框架，工具和课程。此外，该项目旨在将培训传播给其他社区学院和学术研究机构。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的技术领域的教育。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。