UNM FIRST: Promoting Inclusive Excellence in Neuroscience and Data Science

UNM FIRST：促进神经科学和数据科学领域的包容性卓越

基本信息

批准号：
10493710
负责人：
JANE ELLEN SMITH
金额：
$ 45.07万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10493710
关键词：
Academia Administrator Aging Alaska Native American Indians Area Arts Award Communities Data Science Development Disadvantaged Disadvantaged minority Education Ensure Evaluation Evidence based practice Faculty Female Fostering Funding Goals Hispanic Hispanic-serving Institution Institutes Institution Job Satisfaction Leadership Legitimacy Longevity Mentors Methods Minority Mission Modeling Monitor Neurosciences New Mexico Outcome Policies Population Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Race Records Research Research Activity Research Personnel Rest Science Scientist Secure Teacher Professional Development Training Underrepresented Minority United States United States National Institutes of Health Universities Woman Women&apos s Group Work career cohort college community building computational neuroscience diversity and equity diversity and inclusion early-career faculty experience innovation interest longitudinal design member minority trainee nervous system disorder neurochemistry neurodevelopment neuroimaging next generation precision medicine programs recruit role model success tenure track

项目摘要

OVERALL SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have indicated a clear commitment to diversifying the national biomedical workforce. Yet, the recruitment, advancement, and retention of historically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty remains a significant problem within academia. The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) initiative aims to transform institutional culture by developing communities of biomedical researchers and supporting institutions that are committed to increasing diversity and inclusive excellence. The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a Hispanic Serving Institution, and a Carnegie Very High Research Activity institution. Thus, recruitment and retention of a diverse biomedical faculty workforce at UNM will align with the NIH mission and will promote inclusive excellence in a majority-minority state where diverse faculty representation will offer role models for female and URM trainees. Research suggests that systemic transformation of institutional culture requires the recruitment and retention of diverse faculty through evidence-based practices, as well as the education of all faculty and adminstrators in diversity, equity, and inclusion. The proposed UNM FIRST program will hire nine early career faculty across six departments in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences. The cohort will consist of two interdisciplinary clusters: neuroscience and data science. The central hypothesis is that this faculty cohort model will successfully hire and retain a diverse cohort of early career faculty and the changes implemented as part of the UNM FIRST program will support the enhancement of inclusive excellence practices across UNM. The long-term goal of the UNM FIRST program is to increase the diversity of the biomedical faculty workforce at NIH while building on recent progress toward inclusive excellence in our institutional culture. Our specific aims are: To recruit, promote, and retain a diverse cohort of biomedical faculty (AIM 1); and to systemically transform UNM institutional culture towards inclusive excellence (AIM 2). The UNM FIRST Leadership Team includes five female leaders at UNM with significant experience in NIH-funded research, faculty development, faculty hiring and promotion, and institutional policymaking. The UNM Leadership, including a new Institutional Innovation Implementation Board (I3 Board; the Senior Vice Provost, Vice President for Research, Associate Provost for Faculty Success, College of Arts & Sciences Dean, and the ADVANCE Director) that will be created to support the UNM FIRST program, will be poised to work closely with the UNM FIRST Leadership Team in its commitment to enhance diversity and inclusive excellence at UNM. The significance of the proposed UNM FIRST program is that a diverse cohort of NIH-funded biomedical faculty devoted to inclusive excellence will achieve success as faculty in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, that UNM will become an institution where inclusive excellence is permanently established, and that UNM faculty, including UNM FIRST faculty, will train the next generation of diverse NIH-funded scientists.

总体总结/摘要美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 明确承诺致力于实现国家多样化生物医学劳动力。然而，招募、提拔和保留历史上处于不利地位的人和少数族裔教师代表性不足（URM）仍然是学术界的一个重大问题。美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 学院可持续转型机构招聘（FIRST）计划旨在转变机构文化通过发展生物医学研究人员社区和支持致力于增加多样性和包容性卓越。新墨西哥大学 (UNM) 是一所西班牙裔学校机构，以及卡内基极高研究活动机构。因此，招聘和保留多元化的新墨西哥大学的生物医学教师队伍将与 NIH 的使命保持一致，并将促进包容性卓越少数族裔占多数的州，多元化的教师代表将为女性和 URM 学员提供榜样。研究表明，制度文化的系统性转型需要招募和保留通过基于证据的实践以及对所有教职人员和管理人员的教育来实现多样化的教职人员多样性、公平性和包容性。拟议的 UNM FIRST 计划将聘用 6 名早期职业教师中的 9 名新墨西哥州艺术与科学学院的系。该队列将由两个跨学科集群组成：神经科学和数据科学。中心假设是，该教师队列模型将成功聘用并保留一批多元化的早期职业教师以及作为 UNM FIRST 的一部分实施的变革计划将支持加强整个新墨西哥大学的包容性卓越实践。该组织的长期目标 UNM FIRST 计划旨在增加 NIH 生物医学教师队伍的多样性，同时以我们的机构文化在包容性卓越方面取得了最新进展。我们的具体目标是：招募、促进并留住多元化的生物医学教师队伍（AIM 1）；并系统地改造新墨西哥大学实现包容性卓越的制度文化（AIM 2）。 UNM FIRST 领导团队包括五名新墨西哥大学的女性领导者在 NIH 资助的研究、教师发展、教师招聘方面拥有丰富的经验和促进以及机构政策制定。新墨西哥州领导层，包括新的制度创新实施委员会（I3 委员会；高级副教务长、研究副校长、副教务长）学院的成功、艺术与科学学院院长和高级总监）将被创建来支持 UNM FIRST 计划将准备与 UNM FIRST 领导团队密切合作致力于增强新墨西哥大学的多样性和包容性卓越。拟议的 UNM 的意义第一个计划是由 NIH 资助的、致力于包容性卓越的多元化生物医学教师群体将在新墨西哥大学艺术与科学学院取得成功，新墨西哥大学将成为一所机构包容性卓越是永久建立的，UNM 教职人员，包括 UNM FIRST 教职人员，将培训下一代由 NIH 资助的多元化科学家。