Mentoring Women Faculty in Computer Science and Engineering

指导计算机科学与工程领域的女教师

• 批准号: 1310792
• 负责人: Margaret Martonosi
• 金额: $ 54.89万
• 依托单位: Computing Research Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1310792&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mentoring; Women; Faculty; Computer; Science

The goal of CRA-W (Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) is to increase the number of women, including minority women, who participate and succeed in computer science research at every stage of the research pipeline. Achieving these objectives requires that an increasing number of women in academia start and progress to the next stage. Alas, the percentages of women in academic positions in PhD-granting Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) departments indicate that women continue to be severely underrepresented. The failure to capitalize on the creativity of female researchers represents a huge opportunity cost to the U.S. economy and national security to grow our nations leadership in technical innovation. CRA-W will (1) develop programs to increase the number and successful promotion of women CSE faculty to tenured and full professor and (2) conduct comparative evaluation of participants in our programs versus non-participants. Our programs apply the unifying framework of Social Cognitive Career Theory, which finds that interest in and choice of a particular career path will be increased by interventions that improve one or more of the following: (1) outcome expectations (understanding and valuing the rewards of a particular outcome), (2) self-efficacy (a belief that one can successfully achieve an outcome), and (3) social supports that help one persist and overcome obstacles. Our long-term group and individual mentoring programs aim to make participants aware of the rewards of an academic career; to help participants develop self-efficacy through increased knowledge, skills, and confidence; and to connect participants to the computing research and education communities and to each other to further their success. Participants and research mentors attend an initial group workshop, re-connect in small mentoring groups yearly, and meet every three to four months electronically. This ADVANCE PAID project seeks to improve equity in the discipline, through a coordinated suite of mentoring, role modeling, community building, and professional development workshops. The program adaptations are based on prior published research and our experiences and evaluation of programs in our portfolio. For example, the programs use results that show that individual faculty mentoring in other fields improve faculty success with respect to top venue publication, grant funding success, and promotion. In addition, the CRA Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) will provide the first ever, longitudinal and national study of the factors that lead to successful academic careers for faculty in computing. In particular, CERP will evaluate whether our CRA-W intervention programs are effective at increasing the participation and success of faculty women in computing. The evaluation efforts of CERP will yield a national faculty comparison database that will become a powerful national resource for the CSE community and for informing the wider research community on influencing success within academic careers.

CRA-W（计算研究协会在计算研究中的地位）的目标是增加在研究管道的每个阶段参加并成功地参与计算机科学研究的妇女人数，包括少数族裔妇女。实现这些目标要求学术界越来越多的女性开始并晋升为下一阶段。 las，在博士学位授予计算机科学与工程学（CSE）部门中担任学术职位的妇女百分比表明，妇女的人数仍然严重不足。未能利用女性研究人员的创造力是美国经济和国家安全的巨大机会成本，以提高我们国家在技术创新方面的领导地位。 CRA-W将（1）制定计划，以增加妇女CSE教职员工的数量和成功促进终身教授的数量和成功，（2）对我们的计划与非参与者的参与者进行比较评估。我们的计划采用了社会认知职业理论的统一框架，该理论发现，对特定职业道路的兴趣和选择将通过改善以下一项或多项的干预措施来提高：（1）结果期望（理解和评估特定结果的回报），（2）自我效能（一个人可以成功实现结果），以及（3）的社会支持，并有助于一个社会的支持，并持续了一个社会的支持，并且可以持续一个障碍。我们的长期小组和个人指导计划旨在使参与者意识到学术职业的回报。通过提高知识，技能和信心来帮助参与者发展自我效能；并将参与者连接到计算研究和教育社区，并彼此联系以进一步取得成功。参与者和研究导师参加初始的小组研讨会，每年在小型指导小组中重新连接，并以电子方式开会每三到四个月。这项预付款项目旨在通过协调的指导，榜样，社区建设和专业发展研讨会来提高学科的平等。该计划的改编基于先前发表的研究以及我们对投资组合中计划的经验和评估。例如，该计划使用的结果表明，在其他领域的教师指导可以提高教师的成功，而在顶级场地出版物，授予资金成功和晋升方面。 此外，CRA评估研究管道（CERP）的CRA中心将提供有史以来第一个，纵向和国家研究导致成功学术职业的因素。特别是，CERP将评估我们的CRA-W干预计划是否有效地增加了教职员工在计算中的参与和成功。 CERP的评估工作将产生国家教师比较数据库，该数据库将成为CSE社区的强大国家资源，并为更广泛的研究社区提供有关影响学术职业成功的更广泛研究社区。