ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Excellence in Science and Engineering (EXCELinSE) at WSU

华盛顿州立大学致力于营造一个促进多样性的环境。尽管做出了这一承诺，但在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的教职员工和领导层实现性别平等方面仍然存在挑战。华盛顿大学杰出科学与工程学(EXCELinSE)项目的前提是，在关键的转折点：博士学位之后、终身教职前、终身教职后和个人里程碑阶段(例如分娩)，女性会从学院中消失。我们的项目目标是：(1)通过在这些关键点提供机构支持，增加女性在STEM学科中的代表性；(2)为其他研究密集型、农村、土地赠与大学制定/传播创新战略；以及(3)创建一个基础设施，提供最高的机构支持，并确保在赠款的有生之年实现转型。我们的四个主要举措是：(1)准备和招聘多元化的学院，旨在鼓励STEM博士毕业生考虑学术生涯；(2)工作/生活倡议，为所有大学教职员工解决留住和晋升的体制和个人障碍；(3)领导力培训倡议，解决招聘、留用和晋升方面的气候和领导障碍；(4)使转型倡议制度化，其目的是组织、监测和评估机构进展情况，并向更广泛的学术界传播最佳做法。这些举措将通过威斯康星州州立大学EXCELinSE中心实施。这些举措包括：(1)EXCELinSE夏季博士生计划，来自其他研究机构的女性STEM博士生在WSU-Pullman校区度过暑假，参加关于研究和学术生涯的研讨会，接受STEM学科教职员工的指导，并努力完成论文；(2)与爱达荷州大学的双职业伙伴关系，在两所大学提供互惠的伴侣住宿资源；(3)婴儿护理占位符计划；以及(4)外部指导计划，在该计划中，STEM女教职员工与其他大学的成功女教职员工进行指导。智力价值：该项目的研究部分将提供对新实践通过学术组织的传播以及对部门文化和领导力的影响的洞察力。通过确定促进或抑制倡议制度化的部门级因素，这项研究将使其他寻求转型的机构受益。我们将从其他机构引进成功的先进计划，并展示我们自己的创新计划，这些计划独特于我们的情况(例如，与爱达荷大学的双职业伙伴关系)，将使西德克萨斯州立大学和更广泛的研究型大学社区受益(例如，EXCLEinSE暑期博士生计划)，适用于研究密集型、农村、土地赠款机构(例如，婴儿护理占位符计划)，或适用于普通学院(例如，外部指导计划)。在小型农村社区解决与STEM学科中的女性教员相关的特殊挑战，对其他类似机构也有影响。例如，夏季博士奖学金计划不仅将使华盛顿州立大学受益，而且将使其他在完成该计划后雇用研究员的研究机构受益。这个项目将促进我们对未来教师为教授做准备的影响的理解，创造一个响应工作/生活的工作场所，以及在学术STEM学科中吸引、招聘和提升女性的领导倡议。改善所有教师的氛围将导致多样化的教师队伍的保留和提升，这将为学生提供更多的榜样。这最终将导致更多的学生在STEM就业，从而满足国家的需求。

Washington State University is deeply committed to fostering an environment that pro-motes diversity. Despite this commitment, challenges remain in achieving gender equity among the faculty and leadership in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The premise of the Excellence in Sciences and Engineering (EXCELinSE) at WSUproject is that women are lost from the academy at critical transition points: after the PhD; pre- tenure; post-tenure; and at personal milestones (e.g., childbirth). Our project goals are to: (1) increase representation of women in STEM disciplines by providing institutional support at these critical points; (2) develop/disseminate innovative strategies for other research-intensive, rural, land grant universities; and (3) create an infrastructure that provides the highest institutional support, and insures transformation beyond the lifetime of the grant.Our four major initiatives are: (1) Preparing and Recruiting a Diverse Faculty, designed to encourage new women STEM PhD graduates to consider academic careers; (2) Work/Life Initiative, to address institutional and individual barriers to retention and advancement for all university faculty members; (3) Leadership Training Initiative, which addresses climate and leadership barriers to recruitment, retention and advancement; and (4) Institutionalizing Transformation Initiative, which is aimed at organizing, monitoring and assessing institutional progress, and disseminating best practices to the broader academic community. These initiatives will be implemented through the Center for EXCELinSE at WSU.These initiatives include innovations that address our unique situation and have the potential to impact our peer institutions, including: (1) The EXCELinSE Summer Doctoral Fellows program, where women STEM PhD candidates from other research institutions spend the summer on the WSU-Pullman campus, attending workshops on research and academic careers, receiving mentoring from faculty members in STEM disciplines, and working on completing their dissertations; (2) The Dual-Career Partnership with University of Idaho, to provide reciprocal partner accommodation resources at both universities; (3) The Infant Care Placeholder program; and (4) The External Mentoring program, in which STEM faculty women are linked with successful women faculty at other universities for mentoring.Intellectual merit: The research component of this project will provide insights into diffusion of new practices through academic organizations and the impact on departmental cultures and leadership. By identifying the departmental-level factors that enhance or inhibit the institutionalization of initiatives, this research will benefit other institutions seeking transformation. We will both import successful ADVANCE initiatives from other institutions and demonstrate our own innovative initiatives that are unique to our situation (e.g., the Dual Career Partnership with the University of Idaho), that will benefit both WSU and the broader research university community (e.g., the EXCLEinSE Summer Doctoral Fellows Program), that are applicable to research-intensive, rural, land-grant institutions (e.g., Infant Care Placeholder program), or that are applicable to the general academy (e.g., the External Mentoring program).Broader impacts. Addressing the special challenges associated with women faculty in STEM disciplines at small, rural communities has implications for other similar institutions. For example, the Summer Doctoral Fellows program will benefit not only WSU but other research institutions that hire the fellows after they complete the program. This project will advance our understanding of the impact of preparing future faculty for the professoriate, creating a work/life responsive workplace, and leadership initiatives on attracting, recruiting, and advancing women in academic STEM disciplines. Improving the climate for all faculty will result in the retention and advancement of a diverse faculty which provides more role models for students. This will ultimately lead to increases in students pursuing careers in STEM, thus addressing a national need.