ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: An institution-wide collaboration to hiring, retaining, and promoting women STEM faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

为了满足国家对人才的迫切需求？的劳动力，内布拉斯加州林肯大学（UNL）设计了一个系统的计划，以增加其教师的性别多样性。内布拉斯加州高级。ADVANCE-NE是从对校园内所有女性STEM教师的现状进行全面评估，以及对她们晋升障碍的广泛讨论和评估中发展而来的。我们的目标和相关目标是：1。通过匹配STEM部门的组成来增加UNL教师中STEM女性的数量？申请人池的国家池开始第2年的计划，并通过匹配雇用组成的国家池的第3年。2.通过制定和系统化全机构的关爱家庭和双重职业政策，确保这一信息得到广泛传播和行政宣传，并通过增加非正式网络和专业发展机会，增加STEM女教师的留用率，并支持她们晋升为专业领导职位。进行创新研究，什么网络结构最能支持女性STEM教师的成功，什么因素发展支持网络。为了实现这些目标，我们将创建一个办公室ADVANCE-Nebraska协调招聘和保留增强计划，向学术界传播信息，并作为在校园内从事多元化活动的许多团体的联络人。项目主任将（a）集中实施全校范围内的家庭友好政策和灵活的工作安排，使UNL更受欢迎，并担任网络部门主席，教师和管理人员的双重职业伙伴计划的点人;（B）成立一个全校教师委员会，以增加招聘妇女担任教师职务，赋予猎头委员会和招聘大使招募多元化人才所需的策略，并增加“曝光访问”，以介绍潜在的新兵到林肯，内布拉斯加州的伟大的工作和生活环境; (c)成立一个全校性的委员会，PROMOTE-NE，通过让教师，主席和终身教职&促进委员会成员熟悉隐性偏见对决策过程的影响以及尽量减少这些影响的策略，来增加校园内所有STEM女性的保留和晋升;以及（d）通过专业发展研讨会，与嘉宾演讲者共进午餐，和为期一周的写作静修通知ADVANCE-NE办公室的所有活动将是对UNL STEM部门内部和跨部门教师网络性质的持续评估研究，以及网络结构对教师生产力/晋升和满意度/保留的影响。网络分析用于企业和其他工作环境，以确定生产性工作场所的结构，但尚未应用于学术界。我们将确定教师相互联系的数量和优势，并确定最能支持女性的STEM研究和教学网络的结构。的保留和成功。因为机构转型必须得到高级管理层的支持和批准，所以PI是UNL？的首席学术官，谁直接向校长报告，并承诺延长该计划五年以上的奖项的生命，以确保其成功。PI和Co-PI，评估团队以及内部和外部咨询委员会使UNL能够通过ADVANCE-NE活动成功地改造大学，并与全国其他机构分享由此产生的新知识。扩大在STEM中代表性不足的人的参与是所有ADVANCE-NE研究和活动所固有的，也是UNL六年前开始系统评估ADVANCE需求的原因。我们现在已经准备好通过拟议的招聘和晋升委员会以及增加非正式网络计划来建立有效的网络，从而扩大整个校园的参与。机构，学院和部门管理部门已承诺实施政策和做法，以促进所有妇女在干。传播是一个高度优先事项，因为我们相信ADVANCE的愿景。我们已经接受了一个全国性的行动呼吁，团结教师，系主任和UNL的管理人员，为所有人提供最好的手段，以充分发挥他们在学术界STEM工作的潜力。我们将在适当的期刊和全国性的学科会议上传播我们的成果。此外，我们将通过网站和宣传材料（小册子，报告，小册子，新闻稿）与其他ADVANCE机构，对ADVANCE目标感兴趣的人和公众分享所有结果和信息。

In response to the pressing need to engage the full talent of the nation?s workforce, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has designed a systematic program to increase the gender diversity of its faculty. ADVANCE-Nebraska. ADVANCE-NE evolved from a thorough assessment of the current status of all women STEM faculty on campus and from extensive discussion and evaluation of barriers to their advancement. Our goals and related objectives are to: 1. Increase the number of STEM women on the UNL faculty by matching the composition of STEM departments? applicant pools to that of the national pool beginning Year 2 of the program and by matching hiring composition to the national pool by Year 3. 2. Increase the retention of women STEM faculty and support their promotion into positions of professional leadership by developing and systematizing institution-wide family-friendly and dual career policies, ensuring that this information is widely disseminated and administratively promoted, and by increasing informal networking and professional development opportunities.3. Conduct innovative research on what network structures best support the success of women STEM faculty, and what factors develop supportive networks.To achieve these goals, we will create an Office for ADVANCE-Nebraska to coordinate recruitment and retention-enhancing programs, disseminate information to the academic community, and serve as liaison for the many groups engaged in diversity-focused activities on campus. The Project Director will (a) centralize implementation of college-wide Family-Friendly Policies and Flexible Work Arrangements to make UNL more welcoming, and serve as point person for a Dual Career Partner program that networks department chairs, faculty, and administrators; (b) form a university-wide committee of faculty, RECRUIT-NE, to increase recruitment of women for faculty positions, empower search committees and Recruitment Ambassadors with strategies needed to recruit diverse talent, and increase "Exposure Visits" to introduce potential recruits to the great working and living environment of Lincoln, Neb.; (c) form a university-wide committee, PROMOTE-NE, to increase retention and promotion of all STEM women on campus by familiarizing faculty, chairs, and Tenure & Promotion Committee members with the impact of implicit biases on decision-making processes and strategies to minimize these impacts; and (d) build on opportunities for informal networking on campus through professional development workshops, luncheons with guest speakers, and week-long writing retreats. Informing the ADVANCE-NE office in all of its activities will be ongoing evaluative research on the nature of faculty networks within and across STEM departments at UNL and the impact of network structures on faculty productivity/promotion and satisfaction/retention.Intellectual Merit. Network analysis is used in corporate and other work settings to identify productive workplace structures, but has not been applied to academia. We will determine the number and strengths of faculty connections with each other and identify the structure of STEM research and teaching networks that best support women?s retention and success. Because institutional transformation must be supported and approved by the senior administration, the PI is UNL?s Chief Academic Officer, who reports directly to the Chancellor and pledges to extend the program for five years beyond the life of the award to ensure its success. The PI and Co-PIs, evaluation team, and internal and external advisory boards position UNL to successfully transform the university through ADVANCE-NE activities and to share resulting new knowledge with other institutions nationwide.Broader Impacts. Broadening participation of persons underrepresented in STEM is inherent in all ADVANCE-NE research and activities and is the reason UNL began systematically assessing needs for ADVANCE six years ago. We are now well-poised to broaden participation across the campus by forging effective networks through the proposed recruitment and promotion committees and increased informal networking programs. The institutional, college, and department administrations have committed to implementing policies and practices to promote all women in STEM. Dissemination is a high priority because we believe in the vision of ADVANCE. We have accepted a nationwide call to action by uniting faculty, department chairs, and administrators at UNL to offer all people the best means possible to reach their full potential in STEM endeavors in academia. We will disseminate our results in appropriate journals and at national, discipline-specific conferences. In addition, we will share all results and information with other ADVANCE institutions, persons interested in ADVANCE goals, and the public through a website and promotional materials (brochures, reports, pamphlets, press releases).