This proposal is to further support the efforts of the PI ro mentor faculty by hosting three workshops/mini summits in conjunction with the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE ). The first would bring together selected African-American faculty at research universities in the summer of 2005 at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The second workshop will convene a diverse group of faculty at research universities in the summer of 2005. The third workshop will bring together selected Hispanic American faculty at research universities in the fall of 2005. The intent of these workshops is to develop an action plan in support of Dr. Grant's conception of the Promoting Under Represented Presence On Science and Engineering faculty (PURPOSE) Institute. In essence, this grant will actively develop, with the input of successful faculty a peer mentoring infrastructure for underrepresented engineering faculty. Key aspects of this initiative will include: (1)Identification of obstacles to the recruitment and retention of minority engineering faculty. (2)Identification of critical needs for an interdisciplinary, multicultural faculty peer mentoring network (3)Building effective faculty networks and initiating the creation of a roadmap for institutional change. The results of the workshops will be presented at professional meetings and made available on web. The outcomes will also be disseminated to Engineering Deans at the ASEE meeting in 2006 and 2007.
