ADVANCE Leadership Award: Collaborative Proposal - FORWARD to Professorship

俄克拉荷马大学、乔治华盛顿大学和加劳德大学联合开展了为期三年的合作，旨在加强、展示和评估面向科学、工程和数学（SEM）领域未获得终身教职的女性的教授职位研讨会。该研讨会已在之前的ADVANCE领导力奖下发展并举办了三次。这种需求一直存在：每年的研讨会都被超额预定，参与者对研讨会的经历表示满意和热情。在去年（2005年），87%到99%的参与者认为这些课程很好或很好，100%的参与者表示他们会推荐给他们的同事。在接下来的三年里，合作团队计划：__继续举办研讨会，__加强研讨会的具体内容，如谈判部分，__扩大覆盖范围，包括一个名为MIND the GAP的新组成部分，其中他们将专注于已经或正在计划中断SEM职业生涯的女性，__开发研讨会之外的支持结构，以及__进行更详细的评估和评估。__最后，共同项目负责人将与各自的机构合作，在教员队伍的多样性方面创造持久的变化。该项目的智力价值在于为考虑终身教职的女性（和男性）开发跨学科技能训练方法和材料，创建一个在SEM学科中接受过类似高水平培训的女性社区，可以在数年内进行研究，并研究女性在SEM职业中断中的情况。该项目的更广泛影响是广泛的。该项目旨在扩大妇女、少数民族、聋人和重听人士在教师队伍中的参与，从而为国家对电子商务管理人员多样化的需求做出贡献。该项目为这些人群提供了榜样和支持网络，这两者都将提高学院的成功率。这种增加的成功将反过来影响SEM学科的学生人数。该项目还影响并促成了高等教育机构的系统性变革，向即将上任的教员以及院长和主席通报他们参加讲习班和研究结果的情况。研究生和本科生也将从项目工作中学习，并鼓励他们走上教授之路。

The University of Oklahoma, the George Washington University and GallaudetUniversity join together for a three-year collaborative effort to enhance, present andassess the FORWARD to Professorship workshop for pre-tenured women in science,engineering and mathematics (SEM). The workshop has been developed and presentedthree times under a previous ADVANCE Leadership award. The need persists: each yearthe workshops are oversubscribed and participants report satisfaction from, and enthusiasm for, the workshop experience. Between 87 and 99 percent of the participants rated the sessions as good or excellent in this last year (2005) and 100% of the participants said they would recommend it to their colleagues. In the next three years, the collaborative team plans:__ to continue the workshop,__ to enhance specific elements of the workshop such as the negotiation segment,__ to extend the coverage to include a new component entitled MIND THE GAP inwhich they will concentrate on women who have had or are planning a SEM careerinterruption,__ to develop a support structure beyond the workshop, and__ to do more detailed evaluation and assessment.__ Finally, the co-PIs will work with their respective institutions to create lasting changewith respect to diversity in the faculty ranks.The intellectual merit of the project lies in the development of cross-disciplinary skillstraining methods and materials for women (and men) contemplating, or in, tenure-trackfaculty positions, the creation of a community of women with similar high level trainingin SEM disciplines that can be reached and studied over a number of years, and a studyof the situation for women in SEM career interruptions.The broader impacts of the project are extensive. The project aims to broaden theparticipation of women, minorities and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the faculty ranks,thereby contributing to the national need to diversify the SEM workforce. The projectprovides access to role models in these populations as well as a support network, both of which will enhance success rates in the academy. This increased success will in turn influence the student population in SEM disciplines. The project also influences and creates systemic change in institutions of higher education by informing the incoming classes of faculty, as well as deans and chairs through their participation in the workshop and in the findings. Graduate and undergraduate students will also learn from working on the project and be encouraged to pursue a path leading to professorship.