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

Big Sky Leadership Initiative （BSLI）将通过可持续的、分层的、级联的指导和专业发展体系，推动女性成为研究领域的领导者。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横切项目，以及在科学和工程领域处于有利地位的资深女性教师，开发了一个创新的系统，为处于不同职业阶段和转折点的女科学家、社会科学家和工程师提供指导。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。资深女性将与外部机构的研究负责人建立正式的指导关系，这些研究负责人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师，为她们提供发展研究的机会，并向她们介绍跨学科研究完成的组织结构。BSLI还包括一个综合系列，包括四个为期两天的密集领导力发展研讨会，讨论对科学家和工程师重要的各种主题。形成性和总结性评估和传播的方案结果包括在内。

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.