ADVANCE Leadership Award: Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty

这一领导力奖的目标是增加少数族裔女性教师在科学和工程领域的代表性。它采用了一种创新的方法来研究、理解和解决学院中有色人种女性面临的独特挑战，方法是利用社会科学、硬科学和工程学的跨学科知识库，将跨学科的女教员聚集在一起，以增强自我能力、提供支持和建设性地解决问题。一系列以国家讲习班为基础的会议为专业发展、制定有效战略和分享最佳做法以及维持参与联网、指导、数据收集和传播的实践社区提供了一个框架。在国际和平研究所的指导下，以适合出版和广泛传播的形式发展了在实践社区内收集的丰富数据和个人叙述。这一先进领导奖支持的跨学科倡议有助于科学和工程领域少数族裔女性教员的成功和提升，从而加强她们的留住和增加她们的队伍。这些女性的增加增强了教师的多样性，并提供了榜样和自我形象，有助于加强少数族裔和女性学生的招聘、留住和最终成功，所有这些都是建立维持国家繁荣所需的多元化科学和工程劳动力所必需的。

The goal of this Leadership Award is to increase the representation of minority women faculty in science and engineering. It employs an innovative approach to study, understand and address the unique challenges facing women of color in the academy by drawing on the interdisciplinary knowledge base of both the social sciences and the hard sciences and engineering, by bringing women faculty together across disciplines for self empowerment, support and constructive problem solving. A series of national workshop-based conferences provide a framework for professional development, the development of effective strategies and sharing of best practices and for sustenance of a community of practice that participates in networking, mentoring, data collection and dissemination. Under the direction of the PI, the wealth of data and individual narratives collected within the community of practice are developed in a format suitable for publication and broad dissemination. The cross-disciplinary initiative supported by this ADVANCE Leadership Award contributes to the success and advancement of minority women faculty in science and engineering, thereby enhancing their retention and increasing their ranks. The increased presence of these women enhances faculty diversity and provides the role models and self images that contribute to the enhanced recruitment, retention, and ultimate success of minority and women students, all of which is necessary to build a diverse science and engineering workforce required to maintain national prosperity