NCA&T ADVANCE Institutional Transformation: Catalyzing Gender, Leadership, and Scholarship Equity through Institutional Change for All

北卡罗莱纳州农业和技术州立大学将解决一个难题，同时将自己转变为一个开放、透明的社区，支持STEM教师发挥自己的最佳水平。研究表明，无意识的偏见如何阻碍女性融入STEM企业；NC A&amp；T将通过其ADVANCE制度转型奖帮助我们更好地理解性别障碍如何与种族/民族障碍交叉。美国科学促进协会（AAAS）前主席雪莉·马尔科姆（Shirley Malcom）博士将STEM领域有色人种女性的困境称为“双重困境”：如果我们在听到“科学家”这个词时很难想象一个女性，那么想象一个有色人种女性成为科学家就更加困难了。NC A&amp；T将研究导致“双重困境”的因素，并将制定策略来解决传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）女性的双重困境，这些策略也可以用于降低传统多数机构中有色人种女性的STEM障碍。NC A&amp；T开发和传播的策略将通过他们关于如何在职业中期最好地指导STEM教师的研究结果，帮助降低所有STEM女性的障碍。北卡罗来纳理工学院将通过其ADVANCE机构转型奖，迫不及待地寻找这一双重困境的答案：他们将为STEM女性教师提供新颖的专业发展机会，例如与有能力的导师一起制定个人专业发展计划，以及访问华盛顿都会区的资助机构，这是以前一个历史上以教学为重点的机构所没有的机会。随着这个国家的人口变得越来越多样化，我们希望所有最优秀的人才都能在板凳上和领域中发挥作用：北卡罗来纳大学将确保最优秀的人才不会因为不符合传统模式而被排除在外。

ADVANCING STEM Women at Historically Black Institutions: Ensuring the Best STEM Minds Stay at the Table North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will solve a conundrum while transforming itself into an open, transparent community that supports STEM faculty to achieve their best. Research demonstrates how unconscious bias can hold women back from inclusion in the STEM enterprise; NC A&T will help us better understand how gender barriers intersect with racial/ethnicity barriers through its ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award. Dr. Shirley Malcom, former president of AAAS, calls the predicament of STEM women of color "The Double Bind": if it's hard for us to imagine a woman when we hear the word "scientist", it's doubly hard to imagine a woman of color as a scientist. NC A&T will study the factors that lead to the "double bind" and will develop strategies to address the double bind for women at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), strategies that can also be applied to lower barriers for STEM women of color at historically majority institutions. The strategies NC A&T develops and disseminates will help lower barriers for all STEM women through their findings on how to best mentor STEM faculty at mid-career. NC A&T, through its ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award, will not wait to find answers to the double bind: they will provide STEM women faculty novel professional development opportunities, such as developing personal professional development plans with able mentors, and visiting funding agencies in the DC metro area, an opportunity not previously available to an historically teaching-focused institution. As the nation's population becomes increasingly diverse, we want all the best heads at the bench and in the field: NC A&T will ensure that the best minds are not excluded because they don't fit the traditional mold.