Collaborative Proposal: Gulf Coast ADVANCE: Cross Institutional Synergy for Women Scientists

新成立的CISSTEM：南阿拉巴马大学STEM综合研究中心地理位置优越，是墨西哥湾沿岸ADVANCE合作伙伴关系的所在地。来自南阿拉巴马大学（美国）、南密西西比大学墨西哥湾沿岸校区（USM）、主教州立社区学院（BSCC）和海豚岛海洋实验室（DISL）的科学家们在CISSTEM的保护下联合起来，以突出、支持和发展阿拉巴马州和密西西比州墨西哥湾沿岸的女科学家。这些机构的学生群体中，女性至少占60%，非洲裔美国人高达44%。五位项目主任来自心理学、计算机科学、数学、海洋科学和气象学等领域。这个项目的目的是帮助塑造一个心理健康的工作场所（APA, 2012），既严格又考虑到工作与生活的平衡。墨西哥湾沿岸推进计划有三个主要目标：(1)突出、促进和鼓励我们的77名STEM女教师的科学研究和成就；(2)通过在该地区聚集足够数量的STEM女性，作为专业支持和协作网络，遏制女性科学家在工作中遭遇的孤立；(3)改变文化和制度格局，使工作与生活的平衡问题在政策和实践中得到明确解决，为所有科学家塑造一个更健康、更富有成效的环境。该项目利用以前的ADVANCE赠款接受者所产生的关于妇女在科学中的性别问题的丰富文献来指导妇女的指导和合作活动，并指导管理人员培训和政策讨论。该项目旨在改善女性科学家个人的工作场所，并在所有四家机构创造工作场所，促进所有STEM教师健康的工作与生活平衡和伙伴关系。

The newly founded CISSTEM: Center for Integrative Studies in STEM at the University of South Alabama is ideally situated to serve as home for the Gulf Coast ADVANCE partnership. Scientists from the University of South Alabama (USA), the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast campuses (USM), Bishop State Community College (BSCC), and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) coalesce under the CISSTEM umbrella to highlight, support, and develop women scientists on the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Mississippi. These institutions serve a student population that is at least 60% women and as high as 44% African American. The five Project Directors span the fields of Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Marine Science, and Meteorology. The aim of this project is to help shape a Psychologically Healthy Workplace (APA, 2012) that is both rigorous and considerate of work-life balance.The Gulf Coast ADVANCE program has three major goals:(1) Highlight, promote, and encourage the scientific research and accomplishments of our 77 STEM women faculty members;(2) Curb the isolation women scientists experience in their work by gathering a critical mass of STEM women in the region to serve as a professional support and collaborative network; and (3) Transform the cultural and institutional landscapes so that work-life balance issues are explicitly addressed in policy and practice, shaping a healthier more productive environment for all scientists. The project uses the rich body of literature on gender issues for women in the sciences generated by previous ADVANCE grant recipients to guide the mentoring and collaborative events for women as well as shape administrator training and policy discussions. The project is designed to improve the workplace for individual women scientists and create workplaces at all four institutions that will promote healthy work-life balance and partnerships for all STEM faculty.