MPWG: Women's Retention and Leadership Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics

9453680沃森德克萨斯农工大学将为女本科生和研究生开发一个科学、工程和数学(SEM)示范项目，包括辅导在内的课程和活动，以鼓励她们完成SEM领域的学位，并考虑从事研究工作。这些课程将与SEM中针对女性的特别团队培训活动相联系。与这些领域的学生有关的性别问题研讨会将由学生为他们的同龄人、教师、雇主和公立学校教育工作者规划和促进。该项目将让学生、教职员工和教职员工参与策划和展示与SEM中的课堂、实验室和女性一般环境相关的教职员工研讨会。总体目标是通过加强妇女在这些领域的归属感和认同感，改善妇女在这些领域的保留率，并开始改变教职员工，这些教职员工创造了导致妇女在环境管理部门缺乏保留率的环境。将特别注意与妇女有关的问题，她们还必须处理职业发展障碍或社会强加的额外负担。为了留住女性，申请学位学分的课程将在一年级、三年级和研究生阶段进行开发。这门大一的课程将涵盖科学、工程和数学领域的女性历史，并满足校园任何课程的三个小时的人文要求。该课程将有每周一次的实验室部分，该部分将与一名或多名在课堂上学习的妇女的成绩联系起来。初级课程将涵盖非传统领域的女性社会学，特别是科学、工程和数学，并将满足校园任何课程的高级社会科学要求。它将涵盖以下主题：性别和知识的社会结构、法律、机会和机会、政治和不成文政策。其目的是发展专业技能和个人技能，以提高职业生涯在结构调整。研究生课程是两个一小时的研讨会，将讨论程序和政治，并为大学研究和教学生涯的卓越提出建议。将准备课程材料(课本、教师手册和实验室手册)，以便将课程分发到其他校园。***

9453680 Watson Texas A&M University will develop a model program in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) for women undergraduate and graduate students, with courses and activities, including mentoring, to encourage them to complete degrees in SEM fields, and consider careers in research. The courses will be connected with special team training activities for women in SEM. Seminars on gender issues, as they relate to students in these fields, will be planned and facilitated by students for their peers, faculty, employers, and public school educators. The project will involve students, faculty, and staff in the planning and presentation of Faculty Workshops relative to the classroom, laboratory and general environment for women in SEM. The overall goal is to improve the retention of women in these fields by enhancing their sense of belonging and acceptance, and to begin to change the faculty/staff who have created the environment contributing to women's lack of retention in SEM. Particular attention will be given to issues which concern women who also must deal with professional barriers to development or added burdens imposed by society. To effect retention of women in SEM, courses which apply toward degree credit will be developed at the freshman, junior, and graduate level. The freshman course will cover the history of women in science, engineering and mathematics, and fulfill a three-hour humanities requirement for any curriculum on campus. The course will have a weekly laboratory component which will be linked to the achievements of one or more of the women studied in class. The junior course will cover the Sociology of Women in non-traditional fields, especially science, engineering, and mathematics, and will fulfill an upper level social science requirement in any curriculum on campus. It will cover topics such as: social structure of gender and knowledge, the law, access and opportunities, and politics and unwritten policies. The intent is to he lp develop professional and personal skills which can enhance careers in SEM. The graduate courses, two one-hour seminars, will discuss procedures and politics, as well as make suggestions for excellence in university research and teaching careers. Course materials, (texts, instructor manuals, and laboratory manuals) will be prepared for dissemination of the courses to other campuses. ***