Structured Conversations and Re-imagined Spaces: Effecting Systemic Change for Women in STEM at UVA

弗吉尼亚大学ADVANCE计划的目标是增加妇女的数量，包括非洲裔美国人，拉丁裔和亚裔美国人妇女，在STEM学科，并创建一个授权的协作，参与式的社区形式，利用女性教师的集体能力，他们的男性同事和行政领导盟友，以确定和改善结构和文化障碍，妇女的充分参与学术STEM职业。 通过几个明确定义的举措，包括长达一个学期的促进对话过程，以改善部门的气氛，重新想象的空间，重点是高级和退休妇女的知识和生活史，以扩大妇女的存在，互动搜索和选择门户网站，创新锦标赛，以挖掘多样性和发散思维的力量，以及先进的增强基金，以支持STEM妇女的研究和奖学金，弗吉尼亚大学将让男女教师就该机构的共同和包容性未来进行公开和真实的对话。这一转型举措借鉴了复杂多样的系统适应性变革理论，将产生开创性的社会科学成果，并促进干预措施，使机构的物质环境更适合不同群体。

The goal of the University of Virginia ADVANCE Program is to increase the number of women, including African American, Latina and Asian American women, in the STEM disciplines and to create an empowered collaborative, participatory form of community that draws on the collective capacity of women faculty, their male colleagues and administrative leadership allies to identify and ameliorate the structural and cultural barriers to women's full participation in academic STEM careers. Through several clearly defined initiatives that include semester-long facilitated dialogue processes to improve departmental climate, re-imagined spaces, a focus on the intellectual and life history of senior and retired women to amplify women's presence, an interactive search and selection portal, an innovation tournament to tap the power of diversity and divergent thinking, and an Advance Enhancement fund to support STEM women's research and scholarship, the University of Virginia will engage both women and men faculty in open and authentic dialogue about a shared and inclusive future for the institution. Drawing on a complex, diversity systems theory of change as adaptive, this transformation initiative will lead to seminal social science results and promote interventions to render institutional physical environments more welcoming for diverse groups.