ADVANCE LEADERSHIP AWARD: Peer Mentoring Summits for Women Engineering Faculty of Color

该奖项旨在解决美国有色人种女性(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国原住民)在工程学院的代表性持续不足的问题。最近的研究表明，在科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体中，女性工程学教师的数量通常不到1%。例如，在排名前50位的化学工程系中，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔妇女在所报告的化学工程系中所占比例不到0.75%；化学工程系中没有美洲原住民妇女。这项建议直接涉及NSFs高级计划的目标，即增加女性在学术科学和工程领域的代表性和地位。这项提议提出了一项倡议，将种族、族裔、学科和机构类型不同的一群妇女聚集在一起，进行有针对性的同行指导，并启动特定学科职业提升网络的基础设施。主要活动(为期三年)将是一系列专业发展峰会，既有专门学科的，也有多学科的。在第一年，为期两天的峰会将在NCSU召开，涉及所有工程学科。在第2至第3年，学科分组小型首脑会议将采用在第一次首脑会议上由各自主题领域的妇女设计的形式。在最后一年，将举行一次首脑会议，以标志这一赠款下的系列活动达到顶峰，并将举行一次战略规划会议，计划通过专业协会(如果适当)或其他渠道将这一努力推广到各学科。评价和项目评估将涵盖首脑会议的较长期成果，例如发展和利用有效的研究和辅导网络。这一努力的更广泛影响将体现在对有助于留住和提升女性工程学教师的因素的理解上，以及在一群训练有素的教师中改善研究和专业网络方面，这些教师往往被隔离在学术部门的专业环境中。

This award addresses the persistent under-representation of women of color (African-American, Hispanic, Native American) on engineering faculties in the U.S. Recent studies have documented that the number of women engineering faculty from groups under-represented in science and engineering is typically less than one percent. For example, in the field of chemical engineering at the top 50 departments, African American and Hispanic women together made up less than 0.75 % of the reported ChE faculties; Native American Women were non-existent on chemical engineering faculties. This proposal directly addresses the goal of NSFs ADVANCE Program, which is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering. This proposal presents an initiative to bring together a group of women that are diverse in their race, ethnicity, discipline and institution type to conduct targeted peer mentoring and set in motion an infrastructure for discipline-specific career enhancement networks. The primary activity (over a three-year period) will be a series of professional development summits that are both discipline-specific and multidisciplinary. In the first year a 2-day summit will convene at NCSU for all engineering disciplines. In years 2-3, Discipline Cluster mini-summits will take place using a format designed at the first summit by women in their respective subject areas. In the final year there will be a summit to mark the culmination of the series under this grant and a strategic planning meeting to plan to move this endeavor out to the disciplines through either professional societies (if appropriate) or other channels. Evaluation and project assessment will cover longer- term outcomes of the summit such as the development and utility of effective research and mentoring networks. The broader impact of this effort will be seen in enhanced understanding of the factors contributing to the retention and advancement of women engineering faculty and in improved research and professional networks among a highly trained group of faculty who are often isolated in their professional settings in academic departments.