ADVANCE IT Start Award: South Dakota WISE Faculty: A Future of Excellence

南达科他州WISE（理工科妇女）卓越的未来是一个IT-START项目，旨在获取和分析基线数据，这些数据将构成变革计划的基础，以提高南达科他州矿业与技术学院（SDSMT）科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域女性教师的工作环境质量。其他南达科他州的机构和机构与SDSMT共享属性。SDSMT区别于其他ADVANCE机构的属性包括（但不限于）规模，专业和地理隔离。为了完成这项工作，调查小组将收集和分析来自SDSMT、南达科他州的其他公立、私立和部落学院和大学、南达科他州、南达科他州以外具有类似属性的机构以及当前最佳实践的数据。调查小组将与SDSMT？的妇女在科学和工程（WISE）计划，以利用工作和WISE计划的目标。特别是，目标的？南达科他州智慧教师：卓越的未来？项目是：1.收集数据，以确定影响妇女（包括美洲土著妇女）在SDSMT和南达科他州其他高等教育机构的教师和行政职位中的代表性（招聘和保留）的社会，环境和态度因素。确定此数据可扩展到具有SDSMT和南达科他州其他学院和大学特征的其他机构的程度，包括（但不限于）：a）专业工程和科学机构的PUI，以及B）地理上孤立的机构。制定一项机构改革建议计划，其中包括可升级和可扩展的方案，并解决限制各级代表性的主要因素（征聘、留用和晋升）。ADVANCE机构转型提案旨在为南达科他州的所有学院和大学提供机会，并可扩展到与SDSMT具有类似属性的机构。这项规划补助金的工作将使调查小组能够收集和分析基线数据（1）南达科他州和类似机构的女性STEM教师的状况，以及（2）这些教师的需求被教师和他们工作的学院和大学的管理部门所感知。这个项目的智力价值将是那些共同的因素，以干教师在南达科他州和部落机构，是科学和工程专业机构和，地理上孤立的机构，影响招聘，保留和发展的多样性教师的识别。对这些数据的评估为制定方案和机构文化变革提供了一种基于证据的方法，对于那些在城市或郊区综合机构和地区指导机构中证明有效的方法并不满足具有上述属性的机构的特定人口或社会需求。南达科他州WISE教师的更广泛的影响：卓越的未来建议包括：（1）预期的经验教训，分享SDSMT和其他学院和大学在南达科他州的部分或全部人口特征的其他机构的可转移性;（2）增加南达科他州机构之间的联系，以合作努力，以更好地所有的机构？？校园气候以及女性STEM教师的招聘和保留工作。合作努力显着提高了学院和大学的能力，以利用其资源，创造临界质量;和（3）加强和增加妇女，包括美国土著妇女，在干领域的管道，通过加强学院和大学的能力在南达科他州吸引，招聘，并保留在干领域的女教师。

South Dakota WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Faculty: A Future of Excellence is an IT-START project designed to acquire and analyze baseline data that will form the foundation of a transformative plan to advance the quality of the work environment for women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), other South Dakota institutions and institutions that share attributes with SDSMT. The attributes that differentiate SDSMT from other ADVANCE institutions include (but are not limited to) size, specialty and geographic isolation. To accomplish this work, the investigative team will collect and analyze data from SDSMT, other public, private, and tribal colleges and universities in South Dakota, the state of South Dakota, institutions outside of the state of South Dakota with similar attributes, and current best practices. The investigative team will link with SDSMT?s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program to leverage the goals of the work and the WISE program. In particular, the objectives of the ?South Dakota WISE Faculty: A Future of Excellence? project are to: 1. Gather data to determine the social, environmental, and attitudinal factors affecting the representation (recruitment and retention) of women, including Native American women, in faculty and administrative positions at SDSMT and other institutions of higher education in South Dakota.2. Determine the extent to which this data is extendible to other institutions that share characteristics of SDSMT and the other colleges and universities in South Dakota, including (but not limited to): a) PUIs that are specialty engineering and science institutions, and b) Geographically isolated institutions.3. Develop a plan for an ADVANCE IT (Institutional Transformation) proposal that includes programming that is scalable and extendible and that addresses the primary factors limiting representation at all levels (recruitment, retention and advancement). The ADVANCE Institutional Transformation proposal would aim to provide opportunities for all of the colleges and universities in the State of South Dakota and to be extendible to institutions with similar attributes as SDSMT. The work in this planning grant will allow the investigative team to gather and analyze baseline data on (1) the state of women STEM faculty in South Dakota and similar institutions and (2) the needs of these faculty as perceived by both the faculty and the administration of the colleges and universities where they work. The intellectual merit of this project will be the identification of those factors that are common to STEM faculty in South Dakota and Tribal Institutions, PUIs that are science and engineering specialty institutions and, geographically isolated institutions that affect the recruitment, retention and advancement of a diverse faculty. The evaluation of this data provides an evidence-based approach to development of programming and cultural changes at institutions for which methods proven to be effective at urban or suburban comprehensive institutions and DGIs do not meet the particular demographic or social needs of institutions with the attributes listed above. The broader impacts of the South Dakota WISE Faculty: A Future of Excellence proposal include: (1)The expected transferability of the lessons learned to other institutions who share some or all of the demographic features of SDSMT and other colleges and universities in South Dakota; (2) increase in linkages between South Dakota institutions for collaborative efforts to better all of the institutions?? campus climates and recruitment and retention efforts for women STEM faculty. Collaborative efforts significantly increase the ability of the colleges and universities to leverage their resources and create critical mass; and (3)strengthening and increasing the pipeline of women, including Native American women, in STEM fields by strengthening the ability of colleges and universities in South Dakota to attract, recruit, and retain women faculty in STEM fields.