ADVANCE IT Start Award: Research, Reflect, Plan - IT Start at New York City College of Technology

城市技术将研究，反思，并计划为女性干教师的转型举措，这将改善专业氛围，使妇女能够充分发挥其专业潜力，不受机构或更微妙形式的自我限制的结构性障碍的阻碍，这些障碍来自性别陈规定型观念和社会期望。智力优势。在第一年城市技术将进行研究，并进行定量和定性分析，使学院考虑妇女在干领域的专业地位，无论是在学院内和比较跨机构，使用历史，心理学和社会学的角度作为镜头，通过它来查看数据和证词。在第二年，城市科技将传播研究成果，反思其意义，为行动计划建立共识，尽可能多地了解其他先进资助的机构如何将方案付诸行动，纠正性别不平等，并根据我们独特的机构需求和背景制定计划。该项目汇集了来自各种来源的专业知识：除了研究活跃的STEM教师和合格的项目工作人员的内部专业知识外，拟议的STEM自学将聘请国家认可的研究人员和公平顾问，如高等教育学术职业合作（COACHE）和科学技术专业人员委员会。我们的顾问委员会将利用该领域国内知名领导人的专业知识。这一信息技术START项目有可能产生极其广泛的影响。虽然目标人群首先是STEM部门的女性教师，但最终受益者将是超过1000名成员的全体教师，他们将受益于更透明和更有利的成功环境。 此外，学院管理部门将意识到减轻对妇女的结构性和主观因素？的专业进步，以从事纠正他们。 虽然在女性STEM教师的职业生活中实现性别平等本身就具有绝对价值，但它也对未来几代学生产生了深远的影响。代表性不足的少数民族学生，该学院的主要学生人口，是至关重要的干在美国的未来。她们应该成为来自不同种族和民族的成功女性科学家、工程师和数学家的榜样，她们可以在这些人身上看到自己初生的梦想的体现。

City Tech will research, reflect upon, and plan a transformational initiative for women STEM faculty that will improve the professional climate and enable women to realize their full professional potential unimpeded by either structural barriers posed by the institution or more subtle forms of self-limitation that arise from gender stereotyping and societal expectations. Intellectual Merit. In the first year City Tech will conduct research and perform quantitative and qualitative analyses that enable the college to consider the professional standing of women in STEM fields, both within the college and comparatively across institutions, using perspectives of history, psychology, and sociology as lenses through which to view data and testimony. In the second year City Tech will disseminate research findings, reflect upon their meaning, build consensus for a plan of action, learn as much as we can about how other ADVANCE-funded institutions have put programs into action that redress gender inequities, and come up with a plan based upon our unique institutional needs and context. This project brings together expertise from a wide variety of sources: in addition to the in-house expertise of a research active STEM faculty and a well-qualified project staff, the proposed STEM self-study will engage nationally recognized researchers and equity consultants such as the Collaborative for Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) and the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology. Our Advisory Board will draw on the expertise of nationally known leaders in the field.Broader Impact. This IT START project has the potential for extremely broad impact. While the target population is first and foremost the female faculty in STEM departments, the ultimate beneficiaries will be the entire faculty of over 1000 members who will benefit from a more transparent and more enabling climate for success. In addition, the college administration will be aware of the structural and subjective factors that mitigate against women?s professional advancement in order to engage in redressing them. While the achievement of gender equity in the professional lives of female STEM faculty is of absolute value in and of itself, it also has profound implications for future generations of students. Underrepresented minority students, the college's primary student demographic, are critical to the future of STEM in America. They deserve models of successful women scientists, engineers, and mathematicians of many races and ethnicities, in whom they can see their own nascent dreams embodied.