Track 1: Conference - Two Means to an End, Broadening participation research and practice - CAREER panel and workshop for DEIA leaders

轨道 1：会议 - 两种手段达到目的，扩大参与研究和实践 - DEIA 领导人的职业小组和研讨会

• 批准号: 2309255
• 负责人: Bevlee Watford
• 金额: $ 9.85万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Track; Conference; Two; Means; End

The vision of the CoNECD (pronounced, “connected”) Conference is to provide a forum for exploring current research and practices to enhance diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented populations in the engineering and computing professions including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity, disability, veterans, LGBTQ+, 1st generation and socio-economic status. The CoNECD Conference is dedicated to all the diverse groups that comprise our engineering and computing workforce. The purpose of this project is twofold: 1) to enable the hosting of a panel of CAREER awardees at the CoNECD Conference and 2) to provide a preconference workshop to bring together Engineering Diversity Leaders (EDLs) from engineering academic units for a workshop to enhance both their DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) skillsets and enable the creation of a community of professionals. The Faculty Early CAREER Development Program (CAREER) is an NSF-wide program recognized as one of the most prestigious awards supporting early career faculty research efforts. It recognizes the importance of early academic career development and emphasizes the importance of the link between research and education. Research results in this area must be broadly shared with practitioners and other researchers to reap the full benefits of the research outcomes. EDLs are tasked with fostering inclusive environments and attending to retention and recruitment efforts at the undergraduate, graduate, and/or faculty levels. Additionally, they serve a community that includes pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate students and faculty and staff. However, being brought in as leaders and experts in their field, more is needed to know about the degree of support, professional development opportunities, and community these individuals have within their respective colleges and universities that pertain directly to their responsibilities. Bringing together researchers in this space and providing practical knowledge through information sharing in a workshop setting can be pivotal for practitioners in DEI leadership.This project will enable knowledge and community sharing of current practices in broadening participation through DEI leadership work with those charged with achieving this goal. It is expected that this will enable the practitioners to navigate political, resource-driven, and new environments that will increase the numbers of underrepresented and underserved individuals who engage in engineering and computing. Creating a community of DEI leaders in engineering/engineering technology academic units will facilitate sharing of ideas and best practices, as well as the development of mentoring relationships. The work conducted by EDLs is critical in achieving the stated goals and vision of equity, inclusion, and diversity at the college of engineering/technology level. Their work can be far-reaching in a college’s attempt to fulfill its strategic plans for DEI. For many colleges, these roles are new positions and relatedly have a limited body of research to reference for experiences, best practices, and community development. It is vital to cultivate and encourage a community of support for these individuals by connecting individuals with each other to share knowledge and history. This community of practice can share necessary tools, resources, and support to further their career goals and work successes. Additionally, we must bridge the research-to-practice divide. By bringing practitioners and researchers into the same space via the CoNECD conference, this project will enable greater communication between these groups and aid in disseminating research to those most suitable to implement interventions based on the research outcomes.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.

CoNECD（读作“connected”）会议的愿景是提供一个论坛，探索当前的研究和实践，以增强工程和计算机专业中所有代表性不足的人群的多样性和包容性，包括性别认同和表达、种族和民族、残疾、退伍军人、LGBTQ+、第一代和社会经济地位 CoNECD 会议致力于组成我们工程和计算人员的所有不同群体。该项目的目的有两个：1) 举办一个小组。 CoNECD 会议上的职业获奖者以及 2) 举办会前研讨会，将来自工程学术单位的工程多样性领导者 (EDL) 聚集在一起参加研讨会，以增强他们的 DEI（多样性、公平性和包容性）技能，并帮助创建一个教师早期职业发展计划 (CAREER) 是一项 NSF 范围内的计划，被认为是支持早期职业教师研究工作的最负盛名的奖项之一，它认识到早期学术职业发展的重要性。强调研究与教育之间联系的重要性。该领域的研究成果必须与从业者和其他研究人员广泛分享，以获得研究成果的全部好处。 EDL 的任务是营造包容性环境并致力于保留和招聘工作。此外，他们为包括大学预科生、本科生和研究生以及教职员工在内的社区提供服务，但要成为各自领域的领导者和专家，还需要做更多的工作。了解支持程度、专业发展这些人在各自的学院和大学内拥有与其职责直接相关的机会和社区，将这一领域的研究人员聚集在一起，并通过研讨会环境中的信息共享提供实用知识，对于总统在 DEI 领导力中的领导力至关重要。通过 DEI 领导工作与负责实现这一目标的人员进行知识和社区共享，以扩大参与范围，预计这将使从业者能够驾驭政治、资源驱动和新环境，从而增加代表性不足的人数。以及从事工程和服务的服务不足的个人在工程/工程技术学术单位创建 DEI 领导者社区将有助于分享想法和最佳实践，以及发展指导关系。EDL 开展的工作对于实现既定目标和公平愿景至关重要。对于许多学院来说，这些角色是新的职位，并且相关的研究机构也有限。经验、最佳实践的参考社区发展至关重要，通过将个人相互联系起来以分享知识和历史来培养和鼓励对这些人的支持。这个实践社区可以共享必要的工具、资源和支持，以促进他们的职业目标和工作成功。此外，我们必须通过 CoNECD 会议将护士和研究人员带入同一空间，弥合研究与实践之间的鸿沟，该项目将使这些群体之间能够加强沟通，并有助于将研究成果传播给最适合实施干预措施的人。研究成果。这反映了 NSF 的法定奖励使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。