ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: In the footsteps of Katharine Wright: Promoting STEM Women through LEADER

先进机构转型奖：追随 Katharine Wright 的脚步：通过 LEADER 提升 STEM 女性地位

• 批准号: 0810989
• 负责人: David Goldstein
• 金额: $ 286.31万
• 依托单位: Wright State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0810989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Institutional; Transformation; Award; footsteps

Women are underrepresented in STEM units in Dayton academic institutions, as they are nationwide. Four institutions in the Dayton region with diverse histories, missions and demographics form the LEADER consortium for the purpose of Launching Equity in the Academy across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region. The institutions include a public doctoral university (Wright State University, host institution), a private Catholic institution (University of Dayton), a minority-serving public institution (Central State University) and a federal graduate institution (Air Force Institute of Technology). All are located in close proximity and collaborate routinely on STEM initiatives. They also share a commitment to regional STEM education, pipeline, and economic development, and recognition that inclusiveness, including directed efforts to recruit and support women in STEM, is a necessary component of that mission. Our ADVANCE collaborative will address these issues through a unique combination of inter-institutional coordination and approaches drawn from social and organizational psychology to improve climate and thereby transform the individual participating institutions. Intellectual Merit: The underrepresentation of women among academic STEM faculties reflects gender disparities in recruitment, support, and promotion. Underlying the persistence of these problems are features of institutional climate that are rooted in the often nonconscious attitudes and behaviors of individuals. Thus, progress toward gender equity in the STEM academy requires transformation of institutional structures and processes, and transformation of climate. The LEADER consortium will implement models of social/organizational psychology based on gender schemas, persuasion theory, and social contracts, to transform institutional climate in support of STEM women. We will facilitate implementation of strategies proven in prior ADVANCE initiatives to enhance recruitment, retention and advancement of tenure-track STEM women. Implementation of these initiatives within a framework of inter-institutional accountability and administrative architecture (the LEADER Consortium) will catalyze transformation of climate within institutions, thus creating a sustainable women-friendly STEM culture within a region built upon a legacy of STEM innovation. The specific aims of LEADER are: (a) to conduct a comparative analysis of climate for STEM women across the institutions and thereby identify best practices related to recruitment, retention, and advancement; (b) to initiate gender schema education and a campaign based on persuasion theory that will promote new norms of expectation and thereby facilitate implementation of those best practices; and (c) to implement social contracts across the consortium that promote transparency and accountability for transformation of climate, leading to recruitment, promotion and success of STEM women. Implementation and Management: Social science research will be undertaken by a social psychologist and a philosopher working in the area of moral psychology and gender theory. Initially climate will be compared across the institutions to inform climate initiatives. At the unit and institutional levels, chairs and faculty equity advisors will implement proposed initiatives with the assistance of a centralized LEADER administrative office. Accountability for achieving benchmarks in recruitment and advancement of women will be centrally monitored using accepted metrics, formative and summative evaluation, and continuous improvement under the direction of the LEADER Council (composed of representatives from each institution) and with external oversight from an Advisory Board. Broader Impacts: The inter-institutional collaboration and accountability should significantly increase retention and advancement of women in the STEM academy. More broadly, our ADVANCE program is designed to promote equity and that model can be applied to diverse target populations. The consortium includes an HBCU (Central State) and an institution committed to accessibility for the disabled (Wright State); as such, this project should promote significant gains in these two demographic groups within the community of STEM women. Our selection of the acronym "LEADER" recognizes this transferability; advancement of STEM women in the Dayton region today will provide leadership, by example, for efforts toward equity within the academy.

妇女在代顿学术机构的STEM单位中的代表性不足，因为它们是全国性的。代顿地区的四个机构具有不同的历史，使命和人口组成了LEADER财团，目的是在整个代顿创业区的学院中启动股权。这些机构包括一所公立博士大学（赖特州立大学，东道机构）、一所私立天主教大学（代顿大学）、一所为少数民族服务的公立大学（中央州立大学）和一所联邦研究生院（空军技术学院）。所有这些都位于附近，并定期就STEM计划进行合作。他们还共同致力于区域STEM教育，管道和经济发展，并认识到包容性，包括直接努力招募和支持STEM中的妇女，是这一使命的必要组成部分。我们的ADVANCE合作将通过机构间协调的独特组合以及从社会和组织心理学中得出的方法来解决这些问题，以改善气候，从而改变各个参与机构。学术成就：STEM学院中女性代表性不足反映了招聘，支持和晋升方面的性别差异。这些问题持续存在的根本原因是制度环境的特征，这些特征植根于个人往往无意识的态度和行为。因此，STEM学院在性别平等方面取得进展需要体制结构和流程的转变以及气候的转变。LEADER联盟将实施基于性别图式、说服理论和社会契约的社会/组织心理学模型，以改变支持STEM女性的制度氛围。我们将促进实施在先前的ADVANCE计划中证明有效的战略，以加强终身制STEM女性的招聘，保留和晋升。在机构间问责和行政架构（LEADER联盟）框架内实施这些举措将促进机构内气候的转变，从而在一个建立在STEM创新遗产基础上的地区内创造一种可持续的对妇女友好的STEM文化。该方案的具体目标是：（a）对各机构的科学、技术、工程和数学领域妇女的环境进行比较分析，从而确定与招聘、留用和晋升有关的最佳做法;（B）启动性别模式教育和基于说服理论的运动，以促进新的期望规范，从而促进实施这些最佳做法;以及（c）在整个联盟中实施社会契约，促进气候转变的透明度和问责制，从而促进STEM女性的招聘、晋升和成功。实施和管理：社会科学研究将由一名社会心理学家和一名从事道德心理学和性别理论领域工作的哲学家进行。最初，将在各机构之间比较气候，为气候举措提供信息。在单位和机构层面，主席和教师公平顾问将实施与中央领导行政办公室的协助下提出的倡议。将在领导机构理事会（由各机构代表组成）的指导下，在咨询委员会的外部监督下，利用公认的衡量标准、形成性和总结性评价以及持续改进，对实现征聘和提高妇女地位基准的问责制进行集中监测。更广泛的影响：机构间合作和问责制应大大提高妇女在STEM学院的保留和提高。更广泛地说，我们的ADVANCE计划旨在促进公平，该模式可适用于不同的目标人群。该联盟包括一个HBCU（中央州）和一个致力于残疾人无障碍的机构（赖特州）;因此，该项目应促进STEM妇女社区内这两个人口群体的重大收益。我们选择的首字母缩略词“LEADER”认识到这种可转移性;今天在代顿地区提高STEM女性的地位将为学院内实现公平的努力提供领导。