GSE:Extension Services in Engineering: Improving Climate, Instruction and Community to Recruit and Retain Undergraduate Women

GSE/EXT项目：改善环境、教学和社区以招收和留住女大学生是一个为期12个月、价值156,878美元的项目，由科学与工程领域的性别研究（GSE）项目的推广服务（EXT）项目资助。该项目的主要目标是证明通过改善三所高等教育机构的气候、教学和社区（CIC）来增加女性工程本科学生的招聘和保留的统一变革计划的可行性。项目团队采用了一种创造制度变革的模式，强调对校园教职员工进行培训，了解改善CIC的机制，并支持校园团队为工程学院制定性别多样性行动计划。该项目建立在几个当前和以前的nsf资助项目的基础上(0227749;0533520;0646866；0604468)，以及目前成功的“评估大学环境以提高工科本科生的保留率”项目，该项目由阿尔弗雷德·p·斯隆基金会资助，被工程界称为“评估工程环境项目”（PACE）。该团队由工程项目女性倡导者网络公司（WEPAN）的执行主任领导，并与史蒂文斯理工学院科学与工程教育创新中心（CIESE）和美国科学促进会（AAAS）推进科学与工程能力中心的研究人员合作。有一个形成性和总结性的项目评估计划，由Campbell- kibler Associates， Inc.的外部评估员Patricia B. Campbell执行。此外，还制订了一项传播计划，其中包括分享下列成果：性别多样化行动计划模板、改善社会信息中心的培训材料以及参与者对培训和行动计划制定的反应。

The project GSE/EXT: Improving Climate, Instruction and Community to Recruit and Retain Undergraduate Women is a 12-month, $156,878 dollar award funded by the Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE) program's Extension Services (EXT) track. The primary goal of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a unified program of change for increasing the recruitment and retention of female undergraduate engineering students by improving the climate, instruction, and community (CIC) at three (3) institutions of higher education. The project team employs a model for creating institutional change that emphasizes training campus faculty and staff about mechanisms for improving CIC and supporting campus teams in the development of a gender diversity action plan for the engineering college This project builds on several current and prior NSF-funded projects (0227749; 0533520; 0646866; 0604468) as well as the current success of the "Assessing University Climate to Improve Retention for Undergraduate Engineering Students" project, a grant funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and referred to by the engineering community as the "Project to Assess Climate in Engineering" (PACE).This team is lead by the Executive Director of the Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network, Inc. (WEPAN) in collaboration with investigators from the Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Innovation in Science and Engineering Education (CIESE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity. There is a formative and summative project evaluation plan which is being conducted by an external evaluator, Patricia B. Campbell, from Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. There is also a dissemination plan which includes sharing the following deliverables: A gender diversity action plan template, training materials for improving CIC, and participant responses to training and action plan development.