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

结构化对话和重新想象的空间：为弗吉尼亚大学 STEM 领域的女性带来系统性变革

• 批准号: 1209197
• 负责人: Gertrude Fraser
• 金额: $ 301.72万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1209197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Structured; Conversations; Re; imagined; Spaces

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.

弗吉尼亚大学 ADVANCE 计划的目标是增加 STEM 学科中的女性数量，包括非裔美国人、拉丁裔和亚裔美国女性，并创建一种赋权的协作、参与形式的社区，利用女教师、男同事和行政领导盟友的集体能力，识别和消除阻碍女性充分参与学术 STEM 职业的结构性和文化障碍。 通过几项明确的举措，包括为期一学期的促进对话流程以改善部门氛围、重新构想空间、关注老年和退休女性的知识和生活史以扩大女性的影响力、交互式搜索和选择门户、利用多样性和发散思维力量的创新锦标赛以及支持 STEM 女性研究和奖学金的高级增强基金，弗吉尼亚大学将吸引女性和男性参与 教师们就该机构的共同和包容性未来进行公开和真实的对话。这一转型举措利用复杂的、多样性的适应性变革系统理论，将产生具有开创性的社会科学成果，并促进干预措施，使机构的物理环境更加欢迎不同群体。