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

大天空领导力倡议(BSLI)将通过一个可持续的、分级的和层叠的指导和专业发展系统，推动女性成为研究领导者。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，其在科学和工程方面的有利地位的高级女性教员，开发出一种创新的系统，指导处于不同职业阶段和过渡阶段的女科学家、社会科学家和工程师。BSLI的每个轨道都有具体的目标，并为系统和可持续的计划做出贡献。资深女性将与外部机构的研究领导者建立正式的指导关系，这些领导者拥有开发和维护复杂研究中心的丰富经验。反过来，这个由资深女性组成的网络将指导职业生涯早期到中期的女性教员，为她们提供发展研究的机会，并向她们介绍完成跨学科研究的组织结构。BSLI还包括一个综合系列的四个为期两天的密集领导力发展研讨会，内容涉及对科学家和工程师来说非常重要的各种主题。包括对方案结果的形成性和终结性评价和传播。

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.