ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Earth Institute of Columbia University

先进机构转型奖：哥伦比亚大学地球研究所

• 批准号: 0245014
• 负责人: Robin Bell
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0245014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Institutional; Transformation; Award; Earth

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.

哥伦比亚大学地球研究所的先进项目既基于对哥伦比亚大学女性地位的研究，也基于对其他地方女性在科学领域的进步的研究。哥伦比亚先进计划的五个主要目标是：(1)通过智能招聘实践改变有缺陷的人的人口结构；(2)为女性科学家在艰难的人生过渡中提供支持，包括照顾老人和收养或生孩子；(3)增加指导和网络机会；(4)实施透明的晋升程序和政策；以及(5)机构自学。这些努力的影响将由公共卫生学院的Peter Messeri和Mary Clare Lennon领导的评估小组确定。地球研究所高级项目解决了在地球和环境领域往往会显现出来的问题，例如扩展的实地项目，这些项目为领导职位奠定了基础，但对年轻教师来说可能很困难。该战略是将地球研究所作为机构气候变化的试验台，然后适当地将成功的项目扩展到哥伦比亚大学的其他科学和工程部门。哥伦比亚大学的管理部门致力于改变政策，并在完成国家科学基金会拨款后为成功的项目提供支持。地球研究所的先期项目包括：(A)一项自我研究，包括一项模仿1999年麻省理工学院研究的气候调查；(B)一个高级教员工作组，它将通过为搜索、教师发展和留住提供支持来促进招聘和留住教师；(C)旨在招募和留住女性科学家和工程师的内部资金竞赛；以及(D)专注于研讨会和会议。先期计划将在晨兴校区和拉蒙特校区设立办事处。通过这些和其他干预措施，地球研究所试图在地球研究所内创建一个科学社区，在每个科学级别至少有30%的女性。高级方案的总体任务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。尽管几十年来女性在科学和工程领域获得博士学位的人数有所增加，但在一些科学和工程领域，女性科学家和工程师的比例仍然严重偏低，在国家的学院和大学中，女性在科学和工程领域的总体水平相对较低。越来越多的人认识到，缺乏妇女在学术界高层的充分参与往往是学术文化的系统性后果。这一体制转型项目通过体制做法、政策、气候和文化的转型，支持妇女充分参与各级教职和学术管理，特别是高级学术职级，从而促进了国家科学和工程学术队伍的发展。该项目涉及实施协调一致的校园努力，以实现必要的体制改革，以增加Awardee学院内科学、数学和工程学科的女教员的参与度和晋升至高级领导职位。在这一项目期间和完成时，将提供、评估和传播新的知识，以便向学术界通报阻碍女教师发展的根本体制问题，以及学术机构可以采取的有效方法来解决这些问题。