ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: The University of Maryland Eastern Shore ADVANCE Program

该计划的目标是在该大学进行重大变革，增加STEM学科的女性人数，帮助这些学科的女性获得晋升、获得终身教职、过渡到领导角色，并减少她们在部门内的孤立。这三个目标是：通过加强美国地质大学的学术基础设施，促进女性教师在STEM学科的职业发展，将美国地质大学STEM学科的终身教职女性教师比例从9%提高到21%。改变行政政策和程序，增加新的行政项目，促进STEM学科女性教师的职业发展。发展休斯敦大学高级妇女中心，该中心将采用全面的方法来促进女教师的职业发展。学术界的女性，尤其是少数族裔女性，必须克服许多障碍和障碍，这在STEM学科中最为明显。通过制度转型和组织承诺，美国科学技术大学ADVANCE项目将通过开发方法和扩大知识基础来消除这些障碍，以解决少数族裔女性在STEM学科中代表性不足的问题。该项目将引入新的战略和改进的现有方法，这些方法是由诸如妇女科学协会和其他ADVANCE项目等组织概述的。这些活动将增加解决妇女发展、进步和提高生产力的机会，重点是一系列活动，包括为美国科学技术大学STEM学科的女教师提供休假，建立联合的美国科学技术大学/UMBC高级学术交流计划，修订美国科学技术大学的受抚养人照顾休假政策，建立行政奖学金计划，修订stem学科的终身教职和晋升标准，以反映更广泛的奖学金定义，并采用整体方法发展UMES ADVANCE妇女中心。该计划的目标是在该大学进行重大变革，增加STEM学科的女性人数，帮助这些学科的女性获得晋升、获得终身教职、过渡到领导角色，并减少她们在部门内的孤立。因此，管理系统将成为发展学术和行政基础设施以促进提高妇女职业地位的典范。虽然UMES ADVANCE项目将解决女性在STEM学科的需求，但它也将为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）在STEM学科中代表性不足的少数族裔女性的研究提供急需的扩展。由于UMES ADVANCE计划的一项主要活动是召开一次关于STEM学科中代表性不足的少数族裔妇女的会议，因此广泛的利益相关者将从会议论文集的流通中受益。

The goal of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to make major changes at the University which will increase the number of women in STEM disciplines, help women within these disciplines earn promotion, gain tenure, transition to leadership roles and reduce isolation within their departments. The three objectives are to: Increase the percentage of tenured women faculty in the STEM disciplines at UMES from 9% to 21% by enhancing the academic infrastructure at UMES to promote career advancement for women faculty in STEM disciplines. Change administrative policies and procedures at UMES and add new administrative programs topromote career advancement for women faculty in STEM disciplines. Develop the UMES ADVANCE Women's Center which will utilize a holistic approach toward women faculty career development.There are many barriers and obstacles that must be overcome by women in academia especially minoritywomen, and this is most pronounced in the STEM disciplines. Through institutional transformation, andorganizational commitment, the UMES ADVANCE program will remove these barriers by developing methods and broadening the knowledge base to address the under-representation of minority women in STEM disciplines. The program will introduce both novel strategies and modified existing approaches outlined by organizations such as the Association of Women in Science and other ADVANCE programs. Such activities will increase opportunities that will address women's development, advancement and increased productivity by focusing on a combination of activities including sabbatical leave for UMES women faculty in the STEM disciplines, establishment of a joint UMES/UMBC ADVANCE Academic Exchange Program, revision of the UMES leave policy for dependent care, establishment of an Administrative Fellowship Program, revision of tenure and promotions criteria in the STEMdisciplines to reflect a broader definition of scholarship and development of the UMES ADVANCE Women's Center using a holistic approach.The goal of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to make major changes at the University which willincrease the number of women in STEM disciplines, help women within these disciplines earn promotion, gain tenure, transition to leadership roles and reduce isolation within their departments. As such, UMES will serve as a model for developing academic and administrative infrastructure for promoting the advancement of women careers.While the UMES ADVANCE Program will address the needs of women in STEM disciplines, it will also provide the much needed expansion of the research on underrepresented minority women in STEM disciplines at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since a major activity of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to convene a conference on underrepresented minority women in STEM disciplines, a wide audience of stakeholders will benefit from the circulation of the proceedings of the conference.