ADVANCE IT Start Award: Toward Fostering Women Faculty in STEM Fields

尽管明尼苏达德卢斯大学(UMD)在STEM领域的劳动力教育中发挥着重要作用，但提供这种培训的教职员工的性别和种族特征远远小于学生的多样性。密歇根大学S·斯文森科学与工程学院的女性教职员工数量远低于全国平均水平，女性在该学院终身教职员工中所占比例不到14%，在正教授中所占比例为4%。此外，近年来，SCSE内部女性教职员工的流失率远远高于SCSE男性教职员工。这一为期两年的规划和评估项目将确定是否存在体制障碍，阻碍了UMD妇女，特别是STEM领域妇女的聘用、任期、晋升和晋升。智力优势：UMD将采取基于证据的方法，了解UMD STEM领域内妇女的现状。这种方法需要收集广泛、深入和彻底的机构数据，以及一系列非机构数据。UMD将对这些数据进行有力、仔细和全面的分析，以了解STEM女性教职员工的状况。此外，还将研究一系列招聘、留住和提升STEM妇女的最佳做法，这些做法已经被全国各地的学术机构确定、开创和测试。这项建议将致力于在SCSE和UMD内实现透明和公平的专业环境，促进女性STEM教师成功的学术生涯，包括晋升到最高级别的学术领导。更广泛的影响：这些活动将使我们能够共同设计一个全面、综合和成功的制度变革计划，目标是增加STEM教师的多样性，以推进UMD在这些领域的历史上强大的教育角色；教师多样性的增加反过来有助于加强未来科学、工程和技术领域劳动力的多样性。预计一项机构转型计划将有益于所有UMD教职员工，并可能成为其他类似机构的榜样。

UMND Abstract Despite the important role the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) plays in educating the workforce in STEM fields, the gender and ethnic profile of its faculty members who provide this training is far narrower than the diversity of its students. The number of women faculty in UMD?s Swenson College of Sciences and Engineering (SCSE) falls well below national averages with women comprising less than 14% of the SCSE tenure-track faculty, and 4% of the full professors. In addition, the attrition of female faculty within SCSE in recent years is considerably higher than for SCSE male faculty members. This two-year planning and assessment project will determine if there are institutional barriers that work against the hiring, tenure, promotion, and advancement of women at UMD in general, and women in the STEM fields in particular. Intellectual Merit: UMD will undertake an evidence-based approach to understanding the current status of women within the STEM fields at UMD. Such an approach requires collection of a broad, deep, and thorough suite of institutional data, as well as a range of non-institutional data. UMD will pursue robust, careful, and comprehensive analysis of these data in order to understand the status of women STEM faculty. In addition, a range of best practices for recruitment, retention, and advancement of STEM women that have been identified, pioneered, and tested by academic institutions across the country will be studied. This proposal will work toward achieving a professional environment within SCSE and UMD that is transparent and equitable, and that facilitates successful academic careers for female STEM faculty, including advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership.Broader Impact: Together these activities will enable us to design a comprehensive, integrative, and successful plan for institutional change, with the goal of increasing diversity in STEM faculty in order to advance UMD's historically strong role in education within these field; increases in faculty diversity contribute in turn to enhanced diversity in the future workforce in science, engineering, and technological fields. It is anticipated that an institutional transformation plan will be beneficial for all UMD faculty, students and staff and could be a model for other similar institutions.