MPWG: Stony Brook's Women in Science Excel Project

9353771 Nekvasil这个为期一年的项目被称为女性参与科学Excel(Project WISE)，旨在鼓励女性在大学继续她们的科学和数学教育。该项目将面向进入石溪的女性，她们在数学、科学或工程(MSE)方面表现出学术前途和表现出的天赋，并将由五个部分组成：1)将教育女性关于石溪，特别是其科学研究环境的定向；2)关于成为一名科学家的创新的两学期序列，将使她们接触一系列科学学科，帮助她们发展关键技能，给予她们实践研究经验，并解决可能影响她们的教育和职业计划的以性别为重点的考虑；3)使用哈佛联盟课程的增强版的基础微积分课程，该课程将以互动方式教授，并强调小组学习方法；4)由主修科学的高级女本科生、女研究生和女教员组成的多重疲惫的指导系统；以及5)非正式计划和社会活动，将促进与女科学家的合作和社交。虽然WISE项目的主要目标是让参与项目的女性在大学生涯早期就参与到数学和科学的兴奋和挑战中，但在她们做出将决定其后续教育的学术决定之前，该项目有几个具体目标：1)激励处于高中和大学之间的关键时刻的女性继续她们的数学和科学教育；2)帮助她们发展对自己学习能力和在数学和其他定量课程中表现良好的信心；3)促进对具有定量和经验技能的个人所面临的教育和职业机会范围的认识；4)创造一个鼓励继续学习的支持性社会环境；以及5)创建一个可以很容易地在斯通布鲁克“主流”，并在其他高等教育中心复制或改编的示范项目。正在制定WISE项目，以回应国家和Stoney Brook增加妇女参与MSE教育和职业的需要。很少有专门针对女学生并侧重于她们的招募和留住的计划。该项目关注的是从高中到大学一直到大学第一年的这段时间，因为这段时间被认为是MSE渠道中风险最高的时期，有很高比例的准备上大学的学生，尤其是女性，决定停止学习这些科目。***

9353771 Nekvasil The year-long project, known as Women in Science Excel (Project WISE), is designed to encourage women to continue their science and math education in college. The project will be directed at women entering Stony Brook who show academic promise and a demonstrated aptitude for math, science, or engineering (MSE), and will consist of five components: 1) an orientation that will educate the women about Stony Brook, and particularly its research milieu in the sciences; 2) an innovative two-semester sequence on Becoming a Scientist that will expose them to a range of scientific disciplines, help them develop critical skills, give them hands-on research experience, and address gender-focused considerations that might influence their educational and professional plans; 3) a basic calculus course using an enhanced version of the Harvard Consortium curriculum that will be taught interactively and emphasize a group approach to learning; 4) a multiple-tired mentoring system involving advanced women undergraduates majoring in a science, women graduate students, and women faculty; and 5) informal programs and social activities that will foster collegiality and socialization with women scientists. While the broad goal of Project WISE is to engage participating women in the excitement and challenge of mathematics and science early in their college careers, before they make academic decisions that will shape their subsequent education, the Project has several specific objectives: 1) to motivate the women at the critical juncture between high school and college to continue their mathematics and science education; 2) to help them develop confidence in their ability to learn and perform well in mathematics and other quantitative courses; 3) to promote awareness of the range of educational and career opportunities open to individuals with quantitative and empirical skills; 4) to create a supportive social environment that will encourage continuation; and 5) to create a model program that can be readily "main streamed" at Stony Brook, and replicated or adapted at other centers of higher education. Project WISE is being developed in response to both national and Stoney Brook needs to increase participation by women in MSE education and careers. Few programs exist that target female students specifically and focus on their recruitment and retention. The project concentrates on the period that bridges high school and college, through the first year of college, because this has been identified as the period of "highest risk" in the MSE pipeline, when a high proportion of college-bound students, but especially women, make the decision to discontinue their study of these subjects. ***