ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Earth Institute of Columbia University

哥伦比亚大学地球研究所的ADVANCE方案是基于对哥伦比亚妇女地位的研究和对其他地方妇女在科学领域的进展的研究。哥伦比亚高级方案的五个主要目标是：（1）通过明智的招聘做法改变有缺陷的人的人口结构;（2）为女科学家提供支持，帮助她们度过困难的生活过渡期，包括照顾老人和收养或生育子女;（3）增加指导和建立网络的机会;（4）实施透明的晋升程序和政策;（5）机构自学。这些努力的影响将由公共卫生学院的彼得·梅塞里和玛丽克莱尔·列侬领导的评估小组确定。地球研究所先进计划解决了往往在地球和环境领域表现出来的问题，例如扩展的实地计划，这为领导职位奠定了基础，但对于年轻的教师来说可能很难。该战略是利用地球研究所作为机构气候变化的试验台，然后酌情将成功的项目推广到其他哥伦比亚科学和工程系。哥伦比亚政府致力于改变政策和支持成功的计划超越了国家科学基金会的赠款完成。地球研究所先进计划包括（a）自我研究，包括气候调查仿照1999年麻省理工学院的研究，（B）一个高级教师工作组，将促进招聘和保留提供支持的搜索，教师发展和保留，（c）旨在征聘和留住女科学家和工程师的内部筹资竞赛，以及（d）有重点的讲习班和会议。先进计划将建立在晨边和拉蒙校园办事处。通过这些和其他干预措施，地球研究所力求在地球研究所内建立一个科学界，在每个科学级别上至少有30%的妇女，高级方案的总体使命是通过增加妇女在学术科学和工程职业中的代表性和地位，增加妇女在科学和工程劳动力中的参与。尽管在过去几十年里，获得科学和工程学博士学位的妇女人数有所增加，但在某些科学和工程学领域，女科学家和女工程师的人数仍然严重不足，而且在全国的学院和大学中，女科学家和女工程师的人数总体上也不高。人们日益认识到，妇女在高等教育高级职位上缺乏充分参与，往往是学术文化的系统性后果。 这一机构改革项目通过改革机构做法、政策、氛围和文化，支持妇女充分参与各级教师和学术管理，特别是高级学术职位，从而促进国家科学和工程学术工作队伍的发展。该项目涉及实施一项协调一致的校园努力，以实现必要的机构转型，从而增加获奖者机构内科学、数学和工程学科女教师的参与和晋升到高级和领导职位。在该项目期间和完成时，将提供、评估和传播新的知识，使学术界了解阻碍提高女教师地位的基本体制问题以及学术机构可以采取的解决这些问题的有效办法。

The Earth Institute at Columbia University's ADVANCE program is based both on a study of the status of women at Columbia and research on the progression of women in science elsewhere. The five major targets of the Columbia ADVANCE program are to (1) change the demographics of the faulty through intelligent hiring practices, (2) provide support to women scientists through difficult life transitions including elder care and adoption or birth of a child, (3) enhance mentoring and networking opportunities, (4) implement transparent promotion procedures and policies, and (5) institutional self study. The impact of these efforts will be determined by an evaluation team lead by Peter Messeri and Mary Clare Lennon of the School of Public Health. The Earth Institute ADVANCE program addresses issues that tend to manifest themselves in the earth and environmental fields, such as extended field programs, which lay the foundation for leadership positions, but which may be difficult for young faculty. The strategy is to use the Earth Institute as a test bed for institutional climate change, and then expand the successful programs to other Columbia Science and Engineering Departments, as appropriate. Columbia's administration is committed to changing policies and supporting successful programs beyond the completion of the NSF grant.Earth Institute ADVANCE programs include (a) a self study including a climate survey modeled after the 1999 MIT study, (b) a senior faculty working group that will facilitate recruitment and retention by providing support for searches, faculty development, and retention, (c) internal funding competitions designed to recruit and retain women scientists and engineers, and (d) focused workshops and conferences. The ADVANCE program will establish offices both on the Morningside and Lamont campuses. With these and other interventions, the Earth Institute seeks to create a scientific community within the Earth Institute that at each scientific level is comprised of at least 30% women.The overall mission of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. Despite increases in the number of doctorates earned by women in science and engineering over several decades, women scientists and engineers continue to be significantly underrepresented in some science and engineering fields and proportionately under-advanced in science and engineering in general in the Nation's colleges and universities. There is increasing recognition that the lack of women's full participation at the senior level of academe is often a systemic consequence of academic culture. This institutional transformation project contributes to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce by supporting the full participation of women in all levels of faculty and academic administration, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture. This project involves the implementation of a coordinated campus effort to achieve needed institutional transformation in order to increase the participation and advancement to senior and leadership positions of women faculty in the science, mathematics and engineering disciplines within the Awardee Institution. During and at the completion of this project, new knowledge will be made available, assessed and disseminated to inform the academic community of the fundamental institutional issues inhibiting the advancement of women faculty and of effective approaches academic institutions can implement to address such issues.