ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award: Collaborative Research - SUN: Supporting Women Faculty in STEM at Liberal Arts Colleges

ADVANCE 适应、实施和传播合作伙伴关系 (PAID) 奖：合作研究 - SUN：支持文理学院 STEM 领域的女教师

• 批准号: 0820080
• 负责人: Catherine Berheide
• 金额: $ 28.39万
• 依托单位: Skidmore College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0820080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnerships; Adaptation; Implementation; Dissemination

This project is a collaboration of Skidmore College and Union College, two small, selective liberal arts colleges located in close proximity in upstate New York, to enhance the recruitment and retention of women in the STEM disciplines and to promote their advancement through rank. The multifaceted program uses and adapts exemplary tools from NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation programs at large research institutions to the climate and conditions at Skidmore and Union Colleges and more broadly contributes to the adaptation, translation, development and expansion of these resources to predominately undergraduate liberal arts colleges in general. Intellectual merit. The adaptation of exemplary tools from large research institutions to Skidmore College and Union College, where the relative importance of teaching, scholarship, and service is quite different from research universities, will provide valuable models and resources for the NSF ADVANCE "Best Practices" portfolio. It should be noted that Skidmore and Union differ from one another in significant ways: Skidmore, co-educational since 1971, was originally a women's college that traditionally emphasized arts and humanities. Over the course of the past decade, it has been successful in increasing the role of the STEM disciplines in its curriculum. Union is a formerly all-male college, also coeducational since 1970, that historically has had a strong academic science and engineering orientation -- approximately 40% of its students major in the lab sciences and engineering. Thus, the two institutions bring different experiences and strengths to the project, and tools developed for this project are expected to have broad applicability to a wide variety of liberal arts institutions. The project targets women faculty in the STEM disciplines at two specific career stages: tenure-track women and tenured associate professors who have been at that rank for seven or more years. A central goal is to provide these women with the resources and support to move up in rank from assistant to tenured associate professor or from associate to full professor. In addition, we seek to understand local climate issues that affect hiring, faculty development, and promotion of women and create environments that will result in a more balanced gender ratio in STEM disciplines at our institutions. The project comprises two types of activities: (1) activities aimed at recognizing and combating gender bias in the STEM disciplines, including climate surveys, training workshops for hiring and promotion, public events to raise awareness across campus and educational activities to reduce undergraduate bias; and (2) activities providing STEM faculty with mentoring and development opportunities to help them advance their careers, including: the creation of a cross-institutional mentoring network of women in the STEM disciplines and support for research, advanced education and teaching load modification. The activities in this project will be adapted from exemplary practices currently in use at other ADVANCE institutions, such as Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Michigan. They will be overseen by a Skidmore-Union Network (SUN) Committee of STEM faculty that is modeled after a successful ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan. A website will be developed to help participating women learn about all the programs that are offered, and also to facilitate finding potential collaborators and mentors. Broader impacts. This project is designed to build a sustainable partnership between two highly regarded liberal arts colleges for the enhancement, recruitment, retention and advancement of women in the STEM disciplines and to broadly disseminate the models and resources developed under this grant to other liberal arts schools. It contains activities and tools to strengthen the teaching and scholarship of women faculty in the STEM disciplines, through the development of web-based resources that are accessible to a wide range of schools and their faculty, and by the dissemination of its practices and findings to other liberal arts colleges seeking to advance the careers of their women faculty.

该项目是斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院的合作，这两所小型的、选择性的文科学院位于纽约北部，旨在加强STEM学科的女性招聘和保留，并通过排名促进她们的进步。多方面的计划使用和适应示范性工具从NSF先进的机构转型计划在大型研究机构的气候和条件在斯基德莫尔和联盟学院，更广泛地有助于适应，翻译，开发和扩展这些资源占主导地位的本科文科院校一般。智力上的优点。从大型研究机构到斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院的示范性工具的适应性，将为NSF ADVANCE“最佳实践”组合提供有价值的模型和资源。应该指出的是，斯基德莫尔和联盟彼此不同的显着方式：斯基德莫尔，自1971年以来男女同校，最初是一个女子学院，传统上强调艺术和人文。在过去的十年中，它成功地提高了STEM学科在其课程中的作用。联盟是一个以前的所有男性学院，自1970年以来也是男女同校，历史上有一个强大的学术科学和工程方向-大约40%的学生主修实验室科学和工程。因此，这两个机构带来了不同的经验和优势的项目，并为这个项目开发的工具，预计将有广泛的适用性，以各种各样的文科院校。该项目的目标是STEM学科中处于两个特定职业阶段的女教师：终身教职女性和在该职位上工作七年或更长时间的终身副教授。一个中心目标是为这些妇女提供资源和支持，使她们能够从助理教授晋升为终身副教授或从副教授晋升为正教授。此外，我们寻求了解影响招聘，教师发展和女性晋升的当地气候问题，并创造环境，使我们机构的STEM学科性别比例更加平衡。该项目包括两类活动：（1）旨在认识和打击STEM学科中的性别偏见的活动，包括气候调查，招聘和晋升培训研讨会，提高校园意识的公共活动和减少本科生偏见的教育活动;以及（2）为STEM教师提供指导和发展机会的活动，以帮助他们推进职业生涯，包括：建立STEM学科妇女跨机构辅导网络，支持研究、高等教育和教学负担调整。本项目中的活动将根据目前在其他ADVANCE机构（如弗吉尼亚理工大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和密歇根大学）中使用的示范性实践进行调整。他们将由STEM教师的Skidmore-Union Network（SUN）委员会监督，该委员会以密歇根大学成功的ADVANCE计划为蓝本。将开发一个网站，帮助参与妇女了解所提供的所有方案，并帮助寻找潜在的合作者和导师。更广泛的影响。该项目旨在两所备受推崇的文理学院之间建立可持续的伙伴关系，以提高、招聘、留住和提高STEM学科的妇女，并将根据该赠款开发的模式和资源广泛传播给其他文理学院。它包含了加强STEM学科女教师教学和奖学金的活动和工具，方法是开发各种学校及其教师都可以使用的网络资源，并向其他寻求促进女教师职业发展的文理学院传播其做法和研究结果。