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

City Tech将研究、反思和规划一项针对女性STEM教师的转型倡议，该倡议将改善职业环境，使女性能够充分发挥其职业潜力，而不受机构构成的结构性障碍或性别刻板印象和社会期望引起的更微妙的自我限制形式的阻碍。知识价值。在第一年，城市科技将进行研究，并进行定量和定性分析，使学院能够考虑女性在STEM领域的专业地位，无论是在学院内部还是在机构之间，使用历史、心理学和社会学的角度作为观察数据和证词的镜头。第二年，City Tech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机构如何将纠正性别不平等的项目付诸行动，并根据我们独特的机构需求和背景提出计划。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股权顾问，如高等教育学术职业合作组织（COACHE）和科学技术专业人员委员会。我们的咨询委员会将利用该领域国内知名领导人的专业知识。更广泛的影响。这个IT 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1000多名教职员工，他们将从更透明、更有利的成功环境中受益。此外，大学管理部门将意识到对女性不利的结构性和主观因素。在职业上的进步，以便参与补救。虽然在STEM女性教师的职业生涯中实现性别平等本身具有绝对价值，但它也对未来几代学生产生了深远的影响。作为该学院的主要学生群体，少数族裔学生的代表性不足，对美国STEM的未来至关重要。她们值得拥有来自不同种族和民族的成功女科学家、女工程师和女数学家的榜样，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.