Collaborative Research: GSE/EXT: Expanding the Pool Local Cooperatives for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Disciplines with Least Women

智力优势：位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学与位于奥斯汀的德克萨斯大学、弗吉尼亚大学和华盛顿大学合作，正在支持一个推广服务项目，该项目协同为最需要帮助的学科提供服务，以提高妇女地位？计算机科学、计算机工程、电子工程和机械工程。在30个机构中，每个机构都正在建立由计算机科学、计算机工程、电气工程和机械工程系的变革推动者组成的部门间小组。在每个机构，都需要高级别的行政承诺。在每个？客户？机构，跨部门的团队招募合作？网络新女性？而不是互相袭击潜在的专业人才库。每个系都采用以研究为基础的方法来留住本科女生，例如改善师生互动，并将对倡议、评估和报告负责。合作部门团队由训练有素、经验丰富的顾问骨干提供支持和指导。这些中心培训其指定的跨学科小组，使其了解征聘和留住妇女的行之有效的做法和方法。此外，经验丰富的工作人员和外部评价人员将利用跟踪和评价工具支持各部门和咨询人，收集和审查定期进度报告，并提出改进建议。这项推广服务的重点是以可持续的方式改革部门和教师的做法，以长期改善本科生的性别平衡。更广泛的影响：该项目将显着增加所有种族和民族的妇女谁获得学士学位的数量？在最需要的领域：计算机科学，计算机工程，电子工程和机械工程。明确纳入为少数群体服务的机构将有助于实现这些领域的国家多样性目标。利用数据识别少数群体妇女？典型的专业选择将支持每个校园的本地招聘。该项目将引起对示范机构的明确和广泛的关注，并记录它们的做法，以便其他人可以效仿它们的做法。

Intellectual Merit: The University of Colorado at Boulder, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and the University of Washington are supporting an extension service project that is synergistically serving the disciplines most in need of help for improving women?s representation: computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. At each of 30 institutions, interdepartmental teams of change agents from computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering departments are being established. In each institution, high-level administrative commitment is elicited. At each ?client? institution, the interdepartmental teams recruit cooperatively for ?net new women,? as opposed to raiding each other?s pool of potential majors. Each department is adopting research-based methods for retaining undergraduate women, such as improved faculty-student interaction, and will be held accountable for initiatives, evaluation, and reporting. Cooperative department teams are supported and guided by a cadre of highly trained and experienced consultants. These train their assigned interdisciplinary teams on proven practices and methods for recruiting and retaining women. In addition, experienced staff and external evaluators will support departments and consultants with tracking and evaluation tools, collect and review periodic progress reports, and recommend improvements. This extension service focuses on reforming departmental and faculty practices in sustainable ways for long-term improvement in their undergraduate gender balance. Broader Impacts: The project will significantly raise the number of women of all races and ethnicities who receive bachelor?s degrees in the neediest fields: computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. Explicitly including minority-serving institutions will help to meet national diversity goals in these areas. Use of data to identify minority women?s typical major choices will support local recruiting on each campus. The project will bring explicit, widespread attention to the exemplar institutions and document their approaches so that others may emulate their practices.