Enhancing the Participation and Advancement of North Carolina Community College Women Faculty in STEM Disciplines

布伦瑞克社区学院提议在北卡罗来纳州东南部的一个社区学院联盟内协调对社区学院女教师在STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学科中的地位进行全面研究。这些社区学院包括Cape Fear Community College、Bladen Community College、Southeastern Community College、Robeson Community College和Fayetteville Technical Community College。该项目是北卡罗来纳州社区学院系统和美国任何社区学院系统中的第一个此类项目。该项目还侧重于干预活动，这些活动将被设计和实施，以提高对社区学院妇女面临的问题的认识。这些活动将包括定期举办信息讲习班，以传播项目成果、教师领导能力发展研讨会、专业网络小组和人力资源会议。智力优势：不伦瑞克社区学院ADVANCE IT催化剂是一个新颖的项目，将提供一个独特的机会，有助于全国妇女STEM社区学院教师的人口统计学的基本知识。此外，该项目的重点是增强社区学院女教师作为从业研究人员的能力。 预计这将使社区大学的教学活动纳入主流研究，并有助于提高教师干部的职业发展。 更广泛的影响：在项目执行过程中和项目结束时，将向北卡罗来纳州社区学院系统主席和北卡罗来纳州社区学院教师协会主席分发BCC的项目调查结果。此外，其他州的社区学院管理部门将被通知这项研究，并发送一份研究的副本？最后的报告应他们的要求。 通过这种方式，该项目有可能成为其他社区学院系统的典范，并以有意义的方式影响所有高等教育。

Brunswick Community College proposes to coordinate a comprehensive study of the status of community college women faculty in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines within a consortium of community colleges in southeastern North Carolina. These community colleges include Cape Fear Community College, Bladen Community College, Southeastern Community College, Robeson Community College and Fayetteville Technical Community College. This project represents the first of its kind in the North Carolina Community College System and in any of the community college systems in the United States. This project also focuses on Intervention activities that will be designed and conducted to build awareness of issues facing community college women. Such activities will include regular informative workshops to disseminate project results, faculty leadership development seminars, professional networking groups and human resources conferences. Intellectual Merit: The Brunswick Community College ADVANCE IT Catalyst is a novel project that will provide a unique opportunity to contribute to the basic knowledge of demographics of women STEM community college faculty across the nation. Additionally, the project focuses on empowering women community college faculty as practitioner researchers. This is expected to bring community college teaching activity into mainstream research and assist in enhancing the career advancement of this cadre of faculty. Broader Impacts: Project findings from BCC will be disseminated to the President of the North Carolina Community College System and the President of the North Carolina Community College Faculty Association during the course of the project and upon its conclusion. Also, community college administrations in other states will be notified of this study and be sent a copy of the study?s final report upon their request. In this way, this project has the potential to serve as a model for other community college systems and to impact all of higher education in a meaningful way.