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

City Tech将研究、思考和规划一项针对STEM女性教职员工的变革性倡议，该倡议将改善职业环境，使女性能够充分发挥她们的职业潜力，不受机构构成的结构性障碍或因性别刻板印象和社会期望而产生的更微妙形式的自我限制的阻碍。智力上的功绩。在第一年，城市理工学院将进行研究，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不同机构之间，使用历史、心理学和社会学的视角作为观察数据和证词的透镜。在第二年，城市技术学院将传播研究结果，反思其意义，为行动计划建立共识，尽可能多地了解其他预付资金机构如何将纠正性别不平等的计划付诸实施，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：除了活跃的STEM教职员工和合格的项目工作人员的内部专业知识外，拟议的STEM自学还将聘请国家公认的研究人员和公平顾问，如高等教育学术职业合作委员会(COACH)和科学和技术专业人员委员会。我们的咨询委员会将借鉴该领域全国知名领导者的专业知识。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系的女性教员，但最终的受益者将是1000多名教职员工，他们将受益于更透明、更有利的成功环境。此外，学院管理部门将认识到影响女性S职业发展的结构性和主观性因素，以便从事矫正工作。虽然在STEM女性教员的职业生涯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。少数族裔学生是该学院的小学生群体，他们对STEM在美国的未来至关重要。她们理应成为许多种族和民族的成功女科学家、工程师和数学家的榜样，在她们身上，她们可以看到自己初生的梦想得到实现。

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.