ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: NDSU ADVANCE FORWARD - Transforming a Gendered Institution

北达科他州立大学是一所土地赠与机构，自1999年以来，在约瑟夫·查普曼校长的领导下，该大学在学生招生(超过12,500名学生，研究生增加2倍，国际学生增加3倍)、博士课程(41名)和研究支出(每年超过1亿美元)方面取得了巨大增长。尽管取得了这些重大成就，但我们在多样性方面的进展并不大，还没有达到查普曼校长的目标--成为“全球公认的当代大都市土地赠与大学”所需的水平。这项向前推进的建议汇集了能量和资源，以迎接这一重要挑战。NDSU将建立一个得到正式承认的机构--妇女地位委员会，该机构由教务长领导，并与关键的行政当局联系在一起，其战略覆盖整个大学，以实现机构气候变化和提高妇女地位，特别是在STEM学科。前进团队将从三个方面实施这些转型努力：1.校园氛围：我们的目标是创造一个尊重和支持女性成功的环境。我们将通过我们的妇女地位委员会制定新的政策和做法，并将在平等和多样性办公室增加一名助理，以加强征聘工作。我们将以赠款的形式提供奖励，鼓励对性别问题的研究，并将聘请顾问帮助各部门解决性别问题。此外，该方案将为管理人员和教职员工群体设立讲习班和培训，包括院长、主席/校长、教职员工和男性联盟。发展和领导力：我们的目标是确保女性教员通过指导和专业发展，获得成功的教学、研究和领导力所需的知识、技能、支持和资源。该计划建立并支持职业生涯中期和队列指导小组，并为课程发布、赠款撰写支持、领导力培训和个人旅行提供赠款。研究：我们的目标是发现我们的项目是否、如何以及为什么有效地改变了大学。在整个项目中，我们将检查我们的流程，并评估其相对有效性的原因。我们将通过在其他大学的研讨会、专业会议和经评审的出版物来广泛传播我们的成果。智力价值：这个项目将提供关于如何刺激、实施和维持制度变革的知识和理解，从而导致机构更加多样化，表现为：1)增加女性教员；2)增加具有竞争力的女性研究人员；3)增加女性担任领导职务的人数；4)创造一个允许女性蓬勃发展的整体环境。我们的研究揭示了将女性表现与组织因素联系起来的过程，这将有助于理解如何改变性别制度文化和结构，以促进女性教师充分潜力的实现。更广泛的影响：提前推进制度转型计划将与NDSU更广泛的多样性努力相结合，以创建一个更具包容性的校园社区，包括有色人种和残疾人。我们将开发项目、开展研究并广泛传播信息，以便类似的校园能够效仿我们的成功。我们的研究结果将为在招聘、保留和提升女性教员方面存在类似问题的同行机构提供模板。我们完全期待评估计划中提出的方法和描述的结果将有助于其他机构通过发展积极的环境，使女性研究人员能够出类拔萃，充分挖掘教师的潜力。最重要的是，作为这笔赠款的结果，NDSU的女教员将为国家的科学和技术知识基础做出贡献。

North Dakota State University is a land-grant institution that, since 1999 and under the leadership of President Joseph Chapman, has undergone tremendous growth in student enrollment (over 12,500 total students, a 2-fold increase in graduate students, and a 3-fold increase in international students), doctoral programs (41), and research expenditures (over $100 million/year). Despite these significant successes, our progress in diversity has been modest and has not yet reached the level needed to meet President Chapman's goal of becoming "globally recognized as a contemporary metropolitan land-grant university." This ADVANCE FORWARD proposal marshals energies and resources to meet this important challenge. NDSU will set in place a formally recognized structure, the Commission on the Status of Women Faculty, headed by the Provost and linked to key administrative authority, with strategies that reach across the university to achieve institutional climate change and advance women, particularly in the STEM disciplines. The FORWARD team will implement these transformational efforts with a three-prong focus:1. Campus Climate: Our goal is to create a respectful and supportive environment that fosters women's success. We will create new policies and practices through our Commission on the Status of Women and will add an assistant in the Office for Equity and Diversity to strengthen recruitment. We will provide incentives in the form of grants to encourage research on gender and will hire consultants to help departments address gender issues. Additionally, the program will set up workshops and training for groups of administrators and faculty, including deans, chairs/heads, faculty, and male allies.2. Advancement and Leadership: Our aim is to ensure that women faculty, through mentoring and professional development, receive the knowledge, skills, support, and resources needed for successful teaching, research, and leadership. The program establishes and supports mid-career and cohort mentoring groups, and offers grants for course release, grant-writing support, leadership training, and individual travel.3. Research: Our goal is to discover if, how, and why our programs work to transform the University. Throughout the project, we will examine our processes and evaluate the reasons for their relative effectiveness. We will disseminate our results broadly through workshops at other universities, professional conferences, and refereed publications.Intellectual Merit: This project will contribute knowledge and understanding of how to stimulate, implement, and sustain institutional change that leads to a more diverse institution, evidenced by 1) increased women faculty; 2) increased women competitive researchers; 3) increased women in leadership positions; and 4) an overall environment that permits women to flourish. Our research to uncover the processes that link women's performance to organizational factors will contribute to an understanding of how gendered institutional cultures and structures may be changed to facilitate the achievement of women faculty's full potential.Broader Impact: ADVANCE FORWARD programs for institutional transformation will be merged with broader NDSU diversity efforts to create a more inclusive campus community, including people of color and people with disabilities. We will develop programs, conduct research, and widely disseminate information so that similar campuses can emulate our successes. Our results will provide templates for peer institutions with similar issues on recruitment, retention, and advancement of women faculty. We fully expect that the methods proposed and the outcomes described in the evaluation program will aid other institutions to tap into the full faculty potential by developing positive environments in which women researchers can excel. Most importantly, as a result of this grant, women faculty at NDSU will contribute to the scientific and technical knowledge base of the nation.