UD ADVANCE Provost's Institute: W2L (Women faculty To Leadership)

美国国家科学基金会ADVANCE项目旨在提高和促进女性在学术STEM领域的地位。特拉华大学（UD）通过一系列举措，致力于扩大女性在学院的参与，这些举措侧重于领导力发展，促进STEM中的中期职业女性，制定透明的教师招聘、保留和晋升政策，以及加强对教师的数据收集，并专注于改善来自代表性不足群体的女性教师的环境。从女教师到领导力，W2L项目将校园领导力培训重新定位到最高层——教务长办公室和教职员工。校园领导将与女性教员合作，制定降低晋升障碍的策略。通过系统气候研究和教师离职面谈收集数据，将增强对教师遇到的问题的机构知识，特别是STEM女性有色人种，以便该机构可以制定改进计划。特拉华大学提出了一个清晰的分析框架，其简单性可能对未来的思考和行动产生巨大影响。他们提出了一种多层次的方法，即沙漏，该方法展示了如何将上层管理策略与教师提出的基层策略联系起来。中间区域是一个空间，部门椅子可以连接上下部分，以在系统中创造更多的平衡。这是构成W2L活动和项目其他方面的编程的基本原理。先前对女性在STEM领域晋升障碍来源的研究表明，系主任和系主任是塑造工作环境（特别是部门的小气候）的关键角色，这可能会减缓女性的进步。另一个例子是，特拉华大学将为系主任创建一个指导学院，分享有关如何改善院系氛围的最新研究。W2L的区域会议将有助于向全国受众传播该项目有关扩大妇女参与学术STEM的调查结果。由此产生的有色人种女性教师和大学领导层的合作关系将成为学术界的典范，使其成为一个更具包容性的环境。

The NSF ADVANCE program aims to increase and promote the advancement of women in academic STEM. The University of Delaware (UD) contributes to broadening the participation of women in the academy through a series of initiatives that focus on leadership development, promotion of mid-career women in STEM, development of transparent policies for faculty recruitment, retention and promotion as well as enhanced data collection on faculty and a focus on improving the climate for women faculty from underrepresented groups. Women Faculty To Leadership, the W2L program reframes campus leadership training to the top - the Office of the Provost with faculty. Campus leaders will partner with women faculty to develop strategies to lower the barriers to advancement. The data collection, through system climate studies and faculty exit interviews, will enhance the institutional knowledge of the issues that faculty encounter, particularly STEM women of color, so that the institution may develop plans for improvement.The University of Delaware proposes a clear analytical framework that, in its simplicity, may have tremendous impact on future thinking and action. They propose a multi-level approach, the hourglass, that shows how to link the upper level administrative strategies with grassroots strategies proposed by faculty. The middle area is a space where department chairs may connect the upper and lower portions to create more balance in the system. This is the underlying rationale for the programming that composes the W2L activity and other aspects of the project. Prior research on sources of barriers for advancing women in STEM identifies department chairs and heads as key players in shaping the work climate, specifically the microclimate of the department, at colleges and universities that may slow women's progress. Another example is that UD will create a mentoring academy for department chairs to share current research on how to improve departmental climate. W2L's regional conference will help to disseminate to a national audience findings from this project related to broadening participation of women in academic STEM. The resulting a partnership of women faculty of color and university leadership will serve as a model for academia in general to become a more inclusive environment.