ADVANCE IT Start Award: Delaware State University

特拉华州立大学的ADVANCE IT-Start项目有以下四个目标：(1)获取特定机构的信息，以描述和理解女性和代表性不足的少数群体参与STEM的现状、挑战和障碍，特别是在教师中；(2)从其他机构和专家那里确定经过验证的最佳实践策略，以提高女性和URM的参与和进步，并实施可持续的制度变革。(3)为机构转型奠定基础并培养机构接受性，这将增加DSU教师和领导中妇女和URM的参与和进步。(4)制定制度转型规划。知识价值。该项目的智力价值集中在系统的、多维的方法上，以描述和理解制度状况、来自其他机构的最佳实践和研究基础，同时促进利益相关者认同旨在显著提高STEM教师中妇女和URM的参与和进步的制度转型的必要性和性质。评估以形成的方式来推动项目的成功。更广泛的影响。DSU是一所少数族裔服务机构（学生约80%为黑人，约60%为女性），目前正在向更大的研究强度和扩大的研究生课程过渡，该项目将为设计机构转型奠定基础，以提高女性和URM STEM教师的参与和进步。该项目还促进了DSU校园内所有STEM学科以及更广泛的学术界的女性和URM教师之间的互动、指导和网络。此外，这种方法可以为其他有兴趣增加女性和URM STEM教师的存在和进步的少数族裔服务机构建立一个模型。

Delaware State University's ADVANCE IT-Start Project targets the following four goals: (1) Acquire the institution-specific information needed to characterize and understand the status, challenges, and barriers to participation by women and underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially among faculty(2) Identify from other institutions and experts proven best practice strategies for increasing the participation and advancement of women and URM and implementing sustainable institutional change. (3) Lay the groundwork for and cultivate institutional receptivity to institutional transformation that will increase the participation and advancement of women and URM among DSU's faculty and leadership. (4) Develop an institutional transformation plan. Intellectual Merit. The intellectual merit centers on the project's systematic, multi-dimensional approach of characterizing and understanding the institutional situation, best practices from other institutions, and the research base, while in parallel fostering stakeholder buy in to the need and nature of institutional transformation aimed at dramatically improving the participation and advancement of women and URM among the STEM faculty. Evaluation is used in a formative manner to drive project success. Broader Impacts. This project will set the stage for DSU, a minority-serving institution (students ~80% black, ~60% female) currently in transition toward greater research intensity and expanded graduate programs, to design institutional transformation to improve the participation and advancement of women and URM STEM faculty. The project also fosters interactions, mentoring, and networking among women and URM faculty across all STEM disciplines on the DSU campus and across the broader academic community. Furthermore, the approach could establish a model for other minority-serving institutions interested in increasing the presence and advancement of female and URM STEM faculty.