ADVANCE Leadership Award: Big Sky Leadership Initiative to Advance Women Into Careers in Research Leadership

“大天空领导力倡议”将通过一个持续、分层和级联的指导和专业发展系统，促进妇女成为研究领导者。BSLI利用蒙大拿州立大学现有的优势，其突出的跨学科研究中心和交叉项目，其在科学和工程领域的良好定位的高级女教师，开发一个创新的系统，指导女性科学家，社会科学家和工程师在不同的职业阶段和过渡点。BSLI的每个轨道都有具体的目标，并有助于系统和可持续的计划。高级女性将与外部机构的研究领导者建立正式的指导关系，这些领导者在开发和维护复杂的研究中心方面拥有丰富的经验。反过来，这个高级妇女网络将指导职业生涯早期到中期的女教师，为她们提供发展研究的机会，并向她们介绍跨学科研究得以完成的组织结构。BSLI还包括四个为期两天的综合系列，密集的领导力发展研讨会，涉及科学家和工程师的各种重要主题。包括形成性和总结性评价以及方案成果的传播。

The Big Sky Leadership Initiative (BSLI) will advance women as research leaders via asustainable, tiered and cascading system of mentoring and professional development. TheBSLI draws on Montana State University's existing strengths, its prominent interdisciplinaryresearch centers and crosscutting programs, its well-positioned senior women faculty in sciencesand engineering, to develop an innovative system for mentoring women scientists, socialscientists and engineers at different career stages and transition points. Each track of the BSLI hasspecific goals and contributes to a systemic and sustainable program. Senior women will enterinto formal mentoring relationships with research leaders at outside institutions who haveextensive experience developing and maintaining complex research centers. In turn, this networkof senior women will mentor early-to-mid-career women faculty, providing them opportunities todevelop their research and introducing them to the organizational structures through whichinterdisciplinary research is accomplished. BSLI also includes an integrated series of four two-day, intensive leadership development workshops on a variety of topics of importance to scientists and engineers. Formative and summative evaluation and dissemination of the program results are included.