ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award: On Ramps into Academia

需要采取战略干预措施，在科学和工程学科的教员队伍中实现性别平等。从一所大学到另一所大学吸引STEM领域的女性教师，在全国范围内是一场零和游戏。与从其他大学招聘女性相比，在工业和研究实验室中有大量尚未开发的博士级女性科学家和工程师。许多人在研究方面非常有成就，这是在研究型大学取得成功的主要优点。有了适当的信息、网络和支持，他们可以成为非常成功的教授。该项目的目标是通过为工业或研究实验室的博士级妇女提供专业发展，增加所有大学可用的女教员数量。特别是，我们将在三年内每年举办一次为期两天的研讨会，为有意过渡到学术界的妇女提供实用工具和支持。我们将特别针对至少在博士和/或博士后职位之后三到四年的女性。与会者和演讲者将形成一个社区，在求职期间、面试过程、创业谈判和学术生涯的头几年里，他们可以相互支持。总而言之，该项目将开发“进入学术界的斜坡”。智力价值：确定人们从工业或国家实验室成功过渡到学术界所需的挑战、技能和资源是非常有趣的。该评估计划主要针对结果评估，将有助于确定具体的最佳做法，以鼓励女性走上教师之路。通过提供必要的技能和建议，帮助女性成功地从工业界过渡到学术界，除了目前招聘新的博士和博士后以及从其他大学招聘女性的做法外，西澳大学ADVANCE将帮助开发进入学术界的第三条途径。这第三条进入学术界的途径是一种原创的招聘方式，也是扩大STEM领域女性教师队伍的一种创造性方式。更广泛的影响：该项目将扩大STEM学科的全国女性教师队伍。即使是STEM女性教师的小幅增加也可以改善学科的形象，并鼓励更多的女性追求这些学科。

Strategic interventions are needed to achieve gender parity in the faculty ranks of science and engineering disciplines. Wooing women faculty in STEM from one university to another is, nationally, a zero-sum game. Instead of recruiting women away from other universities, there is a mostly-untapped pool of Ph.D.-level women scientists and engineers in industry and research laboratories. Many are very accomplished at their research, which is the primary figure of merit for success at Research-Extensive universities. With the proper mix of information, networking, and support, they could become very successful professors. The goal of this project is to increase the pool of women faculty available to all universities by providing professional development to Ph.D.-level women in industry or research laboratories. In particular, we will host a two-day workshop each year over a three-year period to provide practical tools and support to women who are interested in making the transition to academia. We will specifically target women who are a minimum of three-four years past their Ph.D. and/or postdoctoral position. The attendees and speakers will form a community who can support each other during the job application period, the interview process, the startup negotiations, and the first years in academia. In summary, the project will develop "On Ramps into Academia." Intellectual Merit: It is of great interest to determine the challenges, skills, and resources needed for people to successfully make the transition from industry or national laboratories to academia. The assessment plan, which is strongly directed at outcomes evaluation, will help identify concrete best practices to encourage women into faculty pathways. By providing the necessary skills and advice to help women make successful transitions from industry to academia, UW ADVANCE will help develop a third pathway into academia, in addition to the current practices of hiring new Ph.D.s and postdoctoral fellows and hiring women away from other universities. This third pathway into academia is an original approach to recruitment and a creative way to expand the pool of women faculty in STEM. Broader Impacts: This project will expand the national pool of women faculty in STEM disciplines. Even a small increase of STEM women faculty can improve the image of the disciplines and encourage more women to pursue them.