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

通过增加美国公民在科学劳动大军中的人数，特别是妇女和少数族裔，来加强美国的科学产业和技术，已成为一项首要关切和主要的国家目标。代表性不足的群体必须通过教育机构才能加入科学大军。在学术部门创造合适的环境、态度和行为是使科学职业多样化的关键。女性和少数族裔学生需要看到有类似生活经历的教师导师和榜样，并与他们互动。这项研究的重点将是量化和留住这样的教师。该项目还将开发一种数据驱动的娱乐性技术，以生成对可能对某些人来说困难和威胁的主题的讨论。开发基于数据的程序，并使其尽可能具有娱乐性和无威胁性，将是最需要它们的大多数人的兴趣所在。为解决研究型大学，特别是理工系中代表不足群体的存在和障碍问题，拟议的活动是：确定女性、少数群体和残疾人在终身教职和终身教职跟踪教员中的当前代表性，确定这些群体的变动率，确定现有化学教师和化学工程教师的国家起源，按部门(分析、生物化学、无机等)分析和比较化学数据，并根据数据和叙述建立研讨会，这些研讨会可用于讲习班，使与会者能够了解并避免助长代表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.