ADVANCE Leadership Award: Determining and Using National Science Faculty Demographics to Empower Women and Guide Solutions

通过增加科学劳动力中的美国公民，特别是妇女和少数民族，加强美国的科学产业和技术，已成为一个首要关注和主要的国家目标。代表性不足的群体必须通过教育机构才能加入科学工作队伍。 在学术部门创造合适的环境、态度和行为是科学专业多样化的关键。女性和少数民族学生需要看到和互动的教师导师和榜样谁有类似的生活经历。 这项研究将侧重于量化和保留这样的教师。该项目还将开发一种数据驱动的娱乐技术，以产生对某些人来说可能很困难和有威胁的主题的讨论。 开发基于数据的程序，并使它们尽可能具有娱乐性和非威胁性，这将对最需要它们的大多数人感兴趣。为解决研究型大学，特别是科学和工程系中代表性不足群体的存在和障碍，建议开展的活动包括：确定终身教职和终身教职教师中妇女、少数民族和残疾人的当前代表性，确定这些群体的变化率，确定当前化学教师和化学工程教师的国籍，按部门（分析、生物化学、无机等）分析和比较化学数据，在数据和叙述的基础上组织研讨会，这些研讨会可用于讲习班，使与会者能够理解和避免加剧代表性不足群体面临的障碍。

Strengthening US scientific industries and technologies, by increasing US citizens in the scientific workforce, in particular women and minorities, has become a prime concern and major national goal. Underrepresented groups must pass through educational institutions in order to join the scientific workforce. Creating suitable environments, attitudes, and behavior in academic departments is key to diversifying science professions. Female and minority students need to see and interact with faculty mentors and role models who have had similar life experiences. This research will focus on quantifying and retaining such faculty. This project will also develop a data-driven, entertaining technique to generate discussion of topics which may be difficult and threatening to some. Developing programs based on data and making them as entertaining and non-threatening as possible will be of interest to majority populations who need them the most. Proposed activities to address the presence of and barriers for underrepresented groups in research universities, particularly in science and engineering departments are to: Establish the current representation of women, minorities, and disabled among the tenured and tenure track faculty, Establish the rate of change in these groups, Establish national origin of current chemistry faculty and chemical engineering faculty, Analyze and compare chemistry data by division (analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, etc.), and Construct seminars based on data and narratives, which could be used in workshops to enable attendees to understand and avoid contributing to barriers facing underrepresented groups.