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

GSE/EXT项目：改善环境、指导和社区，以招募和留住本科生女性，这是一个为期12个月、价值156,878美元的奖项，由科学与工程性别研究(GSE)项目的扩展服务(EXT)轨道资助。该项目的主要目标是论证一个统一的变革计划的可行性，以通过改善三(3)所高等教育机构的氛围、教学和社区(CIC)来增加女性本科工程专业学生的招生和留住。该项目团队采用了一种创建制度变革的模式，强调对校园教职员工进行有关改善CIC的机制的培训，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由美国国家科学基金会资助的项目(0227749；0533520；0646866；0604468)以及目前成功的“评估大学气候以改善本科工程学学生的留校率”项目的基础上，该项目由阿尔弗雷德·P·斯隆基金会资助，工程界将其称为“评估工程环境项目”(PACE)。该团队由工程项目中的女性执行主任领导；倡导者网络公司(WEPAN)与史蒂文斯理工学院科学和工程教育创新中心(CIESE)和美国科学促进会(AAAS)提高科学和工程能力中心的调查人员合作。有一个形成和总结的项目评估计划，由来自Campbell-Kibler Associates，Inc.的外部评估员Patricia B.Campbell执行。还有一个传播计划，其中包括分享以下交付成果：性别多样性行动计划模板、改进CIC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.