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

南达科他州WISE（科学与工程领域的女性）学院：卓越的未来是一个IT-START项目，旨在获取和分析基线数据，这些数据将构成一项变革计划的基础，以提高南达科他州矿业与技术学院（SDSMT）、其他南达科他州机构和与SDSMT共享属性的机构在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的女性教师的工作环境质量。SDSMT与其他ADVANCE机构的区别包括（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、南达科他州的其他公立、私立和部落学院和大学、南达科他州以外具有类似属性的机构以及当前最佳实践的数据。调查组会和SDSMT联系吗？美国科学与工程领域的女性（WISE）计划，以平衡工作和WISE计划的目标。特别是？南达科他州智慧学院：卓越的未来？项目包括：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职和行政职位的代表性（招聘和保留）的社会、环境和态度因素。确定该数据可扩展到与SDSMT和南达科他州其他学院和大学具有相同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PUIs， b)地理上孤立的机构。为ADVANCE IT（机构转型）提案制定一个计划，该计划包括可伸缩和可扩展的编程，并解决限制各级代表（招聘、保留和晋升）的主要因素。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，并将其扩展到与SDSMT具有相似属性的机构。这项计划拨款的工作将使调查小组能够收集和分析以下方面的基线数据：(1)南达科他州和类似机构的女性STEM教师的状况；(2)教师和他们所在学院和大学的管理部门认为这些教师的需求。这个项目的智力价值将是确定南达科他州和部落机构的STEM教师共同的因素，PUIs是科学和工程专业机构，地理上孤立的机构会影响不同教师的招聘、保留和晋升。对这些数据的评估提供了一种以证据为基础的方法，以发展机构的规划和文化变革，这些方法在城市或郊区综合机构和dgi中被证明是有效的，不能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学院：卓越的未来提案的更广泛影响包括：(1)预期的经验教训可转移到其他机构，这些机构与SDSMT和南达科他州的其他学院和大学具有部分或全部的人口特征；(2)增加南达科他州机构之间的联系，共同努力改善所有机构？？校园气候以及女性STEM教师的招聘和保留努力。协同努力大大提高了高校利用资源和创造临界质量的能力；(3)通过加强南达科他州高校吸引、招聘和留住STEM领域女性教师的能力，加强和增加女性（包括美国原住民女性）在STEM领域的人才储备。

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.