Collaborative Research: Planning: Track 1: Beyond Recruitment: Engaging Allies to Foster Black Junior Environmental Engineering Faculty Success

合作研究：规划：轨道 1：超越招聘：与盟友合作，促进黑人初级环境工程教师的成功

• 批准号: 2232538
• 负责人: William Tarpeh
• 金额: $ 1.83万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2232538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; Track; Beyond

Environmental engineers play significant roles in advancing socioeconomic and environmental justice. In particular, Black Environmental Engineering faculty are and have been stewards of workforce training in equitable environmental engineering practices, and in designing and implementing technological systems that directly impact underserved, marginalized communities. The underrepresentation and stagnation of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering, therefore, is particularly concerning for the future of the field. Recent renewed efforts by higher education academic institutions to attract and hire Black junior faculty and increase racial and ethnic diversity have limited success due to: lack of inclusivity following recruitment; devaluing of Black faculty contributions and approaches to research, teaching and service; and, the existence of systemic implicit and explicit biases that derail professional success and mobility. To help address this issue, the Broadening Participation in Engineering project will develop a workshop at the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) conference to engage the Environmental Engineering community regarding unique challenges facing Black junior faculty, and strategies to improve recruitment and retention of Black faculty. The findings from the workshop will be disseminated to the broader Environmental Engineering community and beyond in efforts to uplift Black faculty in the field and in other academic and scientific spaces. The overall goal of this project is to develop a workshop for the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) conference to engage the community and identify strategies to promote retention and increase success of Black, junior faculty in Environmental Engineering. The number of Black, Environmental Engineering faculty has stagnated despite efforts of academic institutions to target and recruit Black applicants. Greater representation of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering is especially important as historic engineering practices have disproportionately negatively impacted disenfranchised communities, and environmental engineers often champion democratized access to clean and safe resources, goods and services. The specific goals of this project are to: (1) raise awareness among the AEESP community of the significance of the 2022 workshop; (2) lead a workshop at the 2022 AEESP meeting to engage stakeholders and identify roles for allies; and, (3) disseminate findings from the workshop to the broader Environmental Engineering community. The workshop will be led by three, Black, junior Environmental Engineering faculty, in addition a faculty member with expertise in equity in engineering education and racial marginalization in academia. The outcomes of this workshop will be leveraged to springboard future research and framework development for use by academic heads, departments and allies, and to ultimately increase participation and retention of Black faculty in Environmental Engineering.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.

环境工程师在推进社会经济和环境正义方面发挥着重要作用。特别是，黑人环境工程教师是公平环境工程实践中的劳动力培训的管理者，以及设计和实施直接影响不足，边缘化社区的技术系统。因此，黑人教师在环境工程中的代理和停滞不足和停滞对该领域的未来特别关注。高等教育学术机构最近为吸引和聘用黑人初级教师并增加种族和种族多样性的努力有限，因为招募后缺乏包容性；贬低黑人教师​​的贡献和研究，教学和服务的方法；而且，存在系统性隐式和明确的偏见，这会破坏专业成功和流动性。为了帮助解决这个问题，扩大对工程项目的参与将在2022年2022年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）会议上开展研讨会，以与环境工程社区有关黑人初级教师面临的独特挑战，以及改善黑人教师的招聘和保留的策略。研讨会的发现将被传播到更广泛的环境工程社区，及时努力提高该领域以及其他学术和科学空间的黑人教师的努力。该项目的总体目的是为2022年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）会议开发一个研讨会，以吸引社区参与，并确定促进保留率并增加黑人，初级教师在环境工程中的成功的策略。尽管学术机构为目标和招募黑人申请人而做出了努力，但黑人，环境工程学院的数量仍停滞不前。黑人教职员工在环境工程中的更大代表尤为重要，因为历史工程实践对被剥夺权利的社区产生了不成比例的负面影响，环境工程师经常倡导将清洁和安全的资源，商品和服务民主化。该项目的具体目标是：（1）提高AEESP社区的认识，以了解2022年研讨会的重要性； （2）在2022年AEESP会议上领导研讨会，以吸引利益相关者并确定盟友的角色； （3）将研讨会的发现传播到更广泛的环境工程社区。该研讨会将由三个黑人，初级环境工程学院领导，此外，还具有学术界工程教育和种族边缘化股权专业知识的教职员工。该研讨会的成果将被利用到跳板未来的研究和框架开发，以供学术负责人，部门和盟友使用，并最终提高黑人教职员工在环境工程中的参与和保留。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。