Vitae’s partnership with Cal-Bridge, USA

CalBridge



Vitae are excited to be contributing to  the doctoral component of the expanding Cal-Bridge program.  

 

The Cal-Bridge programme is a partnership between 9 University of California (UC), 22 California State University (CSU), and the 116 community college campuses in California, with over 200 faculty from the three systems participating. Scholars are recruited from CSU and community college campuses across the state, with the help of local faculty and/or staff liaisons at each campus. 

 

Cal-Bridge creates opportunities for members of historically underrepresented groups, including women, underrepresented minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those with disabilities, and first-generation students, to participate and advance in STEM fields including physics, astronomy, computer science/engineering, and mathematics, to increase their numbers in PhD programs in California, USA. 

  

Vitae’s work with Cal-Bridge will involve the development of research leadership capabilities through targeted workshops and structured activities, as well as providing support to Cal-Bridge as they begin to develop the professional development program for doctoral students. Through our programme, we are working with Cal-Bridge to provide several important factors:  

 

  • Development Needs Analysis, based upon the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF); 

  • Access to the RDF Planner for participating scholars. The RDF planner is an online tool that supports researchers in using the Vitae RDF. Researchers use the RDF to assess their leadership capabilities, identify areas for development, and create an action plan.   

  • Formal membership of Vitae for all scholars;  

  • A programme of workshops designed to support doctoral scholars as they commence and progress their doctoral programmes;. 

  • Embedded evaluation of the efficacy of our Cal-Bridge professional development programme. 

 

To find out more about our support for the Cal-Bridge programme, and programmes like this, get in touch with us at learning.development@vitae.ac.uk.  

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