UTEP FIRST: United Toward Equity and Progress: Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation

UTEP FIRST：团结追求公平和进步：可持续转型的教员机构招聘

• 批准号: 10664694
• 负责人: Guadalupe Corral
• 金额: $ 46.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-05 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10664694
• 关键词: Academic support; Achievement; Address; Automobile Driving; Biomedical Research; Classification; Communities; Community of Practice; Creativeness; Development; Discipline; Documentation; Education; Environment; Equity; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Evidence based practice; Faculty; Fostering; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Health Disparities Research; Hispanic; Hispanic Populations; Hispanic-serving Institution; Infrastructure; Institution; Institutionalization; Interdisciplinary Study; Investments; Knowledge; Mediating; Mentors; Mexican Americans; Mexico; Minority; Modeling; Organizational Culture; Outcome; Persons; Policies; Positioning Attribute; Procedures; Process; Productivity; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Science; Scientist; Teacher Professional Development; Testing; Texas; Underrepresented Populations; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vision; Work; Workload; cohort; community building; diversity and inclusion; early-career faculty; education research; equity, diversity, and inclusion; faculty support; health disparity; health inequalities; improved; innovation; interest; intersectionality; minority health disparity; minority investigator; novel; programs; recruit; research faculty; social; success

ABSTRACT The NIH has a strong commitment to advancing diversity in the biomedical workforce but has recognized that NIH-funded institutions may lack the organizational culture required to foster and develop diverse scientists. The NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation [FIRST] Program will provide a major investment toward transforming institutional culture by integrating a cohort model of faculty hires committed to diversity and inclusive excellence. The University of Texas at El Paso [UTEP] proposes the UTEP FIRST program as a framework to address the shortage of diverse research scientists who focus on Hispanic Health Disparities [HHD]. UTEP is a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution that is a focal point for education and biomedical research for people living on the United States-Mexico border. The cornerstone is the operationalization of strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion [DEI] initiatives that will provide an integrative theme for addressing the FIRST Program goals of: (1) fostering sustainable institutional culture change; (2) promoting institutional inclusive excellence by hiring a diverse cohort of new faculty; and (3) supporting faculty development, mentoring, sponsorship, and promotion. The overarching goal of the UTEP FIRST proposal is to drive significant change in the institutional culture at UTEP, thereby uplifting early-career faculty on their trajectory toward academic and research success. The vision is to be a national leader in diversifying the biomedical research workforce and a national resource for studying and implementing systemic change that support academic cultures of inclusive excellence. We will test the hypothesis that a cohort model of faculty hiring, sponsorship, continual mentoring, and professional development through evidence-based practices for fostering academic cultures of inclusive excellence will achieve significant improvements in metrics of institutional culture and scientific discovery. The FIRST cohort will involve a total of six faculty hires with research interests in minority health disparities. Three Specific Aims are integrated across three cores. The aim of the Administrative Core is to create transformative cultural and institutional changes through the framework of Inclusive Excellence, leading to supportive and inclusive environments that develop diverse faculty who excel in discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research focused on reducing HHD. The aim of the Faculty Development Core is to develop, implement and sustain a UTEP FIRST program that builds communities of practice and integrates innovative infrastructures, leading to transformative and sustainable changes in policies, procedures, and processes that foster the retention, progression, and promotion of diverse faculty. The aim of the Evaluation Core is to foster and institutionalize program improvement and sustainability by testing the primary hypothesis through documentation of faculty, department, and institutional level metrics and indicators. Expected findings will exert a powerful influence by fostering a sustainable institutional culture change, thereby providing UTEP with the foundation needed for thriving at the intersectionality of research, culture, diversity, and inclusion.

抽象的 NIH 坚定致力于促进生物医学劳动力的多样性，但也认识到 美国国立卫生研究院资助的机构可能缺乏培养和发展多元化科学家所需的组织文化。这 NIH 可持续转型教员机构招聘 [FIRST] 计划将提供一个专业 通过整合承诺的教职员工队列模型来投资变革机构文化 多元化和包容性卓越。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校 [UTEP] 提出 UTEP FIRST 计划作为解决专注于西班牙裔健康的多元化研究科学家短缺问题的框架 差异[HHD]。 UTEP 是一所为少数族裔/西班牙裔服务的机构，是教育和教育的焦点 为居住在美国和墨西哥边境的人们进行生物医学研究。基石是 战略多元化、公平和包容性 [DEI] 举措的实施，将提供综合性的 解决 FIRST 计划目标的主题：(1) 促进可持续的制度文化变革； (2) 通过聘请多元化的新教师队伍来促进机构的包容性卓越； (3) 师资支持 发展、指导、赞助和促销。 UTEP FIRST 提案的总体目标是 推动 UTEP 机构文化的重大变革，从而提升早期职业教师的能力 学术和研究成功的轨迹。愿景是成为多元化的国家领导者 生物医学研究队伍和研究和实施系统性变革的国家资源 支持包容性卓越的学术文化。我们将检验以下假设：教师队列模型 通过基于证据的实践进行招聘、赞助、持续指导和专业发展 培育包容性卓越的学术文化将显着改善衡量指标 制度文化和科学发现。第一批将总共聘用六名从事研究工作的教员 对少数群体健康差异的兴趣。三个特定目标集成在三个核心中。该组织的目标是 行政核心是通过以下框架创造变革性的文化和制度变革： 包容性卓越，营造支持性和包容性的环境，培养在各方面表现出色的多元化教师 特定学科和跨学科研究的重点是减少 HHD。师资队伍建设的目标 核心是开发、实施和维持 UTEP FIRST 计划，建立实践社区和 整合创新基础设施，导致政策、程序、 以及促进多元化教师的保留、进步和晋升的流程。评估的目的 核心是通过测试主要假设来促进计划改进和可持续性并使之制度化 通过记录教师、部门和机构级别的指标和指标。预期结果 将通过促进可持续的制度文化变革发挥强大的影响力，从而提供 UTEP 拥有在研究、文化、多样性和包容性的交叉领域蓬勃发展所需的基础。