MPWG: Stony Brook's Women in Science Excel Project

这个为期一年的项目，被称为女性在科学Excel （WISE项目），旨在鼓励女性在大学继续她们的科学和数学教育。该项目将针对进入石溪大学的女性，她们在学术上有前途，在数学、科学或工程（MSE）方面表现出天赋，并将由五个部分组成：1)向女性介绍石溪大学，特别是其在科学方面的研究环境；2)创新的两学期“成为一名科学家”课程，让他们接触一系列科学学科，帮助他们培养关键技能，为他们提供实践研究经验，并解决可能影响他们教育和职业计划的性别问题；3)基础微积分课程，采用增强版的哈佛联盟课程，采用互动式教学，强调小组学习方法；(4)建立一种由高级理科女本科生、女研究生和女教师组成的多重导师制；5)非正式的项目和社会活动，将促进与女科学家的合作和社交。虽然WISE项目的总体目标是让参与的女性在大学生涯早期就感受到数学和科学的兴奋和挑战，然后再做出影响其后续教育的学术决定，但该项目有几个具体目标：1)激励处于高中和大学之间关键时刻的女性继续接受数学和科学教育；2)帮助他们建立对自己学习能力的信心，并在数学和其他量化课程中取得好成绩；3)促进对具有定量和实证技能的个人开放的教育和职业机会范围的认识；4)创造一个鼓励延续的支持性社会环境；5)创建一个模范课程，可以很容易地在石溪分校“主流化”，并在其他高等教育中心复制或改编。WISE项目的制定是为了响应国家和斯通尼布鲁克的需求，以增加妇女参与MSE教育和职业。很少有专门针对女学生的项目，关注她们的招募和保留。该项目将重点放在从高中到大学一直到大学一年级的这段时间，因为这段时间被确定为攻读MSE的“风险最高”时期，在这段时间里，有很大一部分即将进入大学的学生，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. ***