ADVANCE CCNY: Blueprint for Increased Representation and Advancement of Women in STEM

该项目将为纽约市立大学系统中的城市学院（CCNY）的所有教师，特别是女性，创造一个公平和支持性的环境创造蓝图。城市学院是该系统的旗舰科学和工程学院，也是一所少数民族服务机构。CCNY的变化可能会影响到其他学院，并导致整个系统中科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的女性进步。CCNY将对教师观念、机构政策和做法以及女性在STEM中的代表性和进步进行自我评估，作为制定蓝图的一种手段。CCNY的女性和少数族裔教师的进步将为超过一半的女性学生提供明显的榜样，其中许多人来自少数族裔或弱势群体。随着城市学院进入下一阶段，将自己转变为一所研究密集型大学，它面临的挑战是，在提升其研究形象和声誉的同时，保持对其访问和包容性卓越使命的忠诚。本提案的目标是确定促进或阻碍城市学院STEM女性发展的文化和环境因素。这些资料将用于执行新政策，以确保男女平等的晋升，并为有效提高妇女的职业地位提供蓝图。该项目的具体目标如下：(a)寻找和识别阻碍女性STEM教师的代表性和进步的障碍；(b)确定不同性别、种族/民族、职级和学科的教员和行政人员在认知上的差异；(c)更好地了解文化和环境对这些障碍和感知差异的影响；(d)通过有针对性的举措消除障碍和纠正目前的不平等现象，实现体制改革。将采用混合方法从教师那里获取信息，这些信息将与政策审查一起用于制定机构转型的蓝图。数据收集部分将用于创建一个系统的数据集，该数据集将来可能用于监视变化。

This project will create a blueprint to foster an equitable and supportive environment for all faculty members, especially women at City College (CCNY) in the City University of New York system. City College is the flagship science and engineering school in the system and a minority-serving institution. Change at CCNY is likely to impact the other colleges and lead to advancing women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields throughout the system. CCNY will conduct a self-assessment of faculty perceptions, institutional policies and practices, and of the representation and advancement of women in STEM as a means towards developing the blueprint. Advancing women and minority faculty at CCNY will provide visible role models for more than half of the student population that is female, many of whom are from minority or disadvantaged backgrounds.As City College moves into its next phase in transforming itself into a research-intensive university, it faces the challenge of remaining true to its mission of access and inclusive excellence, while upgrading its research profile and reputation. The goals of this proposal are to identify the cultural and environmental factors that promote or hinder the advancement of STEM women at City College. This information will be used to implement new policies to ensure that advancement is gender neutral and to provide a blueprint for effective career advancement of women. The specific objectives of the project are as follows: (a) to locate and identify obstacles to the representation and advancement of women STEM faculty; (b) to determine perceptual differences among faculty and administrators of different genders, races/ethnicities, ranks and disciplines; (c) to better understand cultural and environmental influences on these obstacles and perceptual differences; (d) to effect institutional transformation through targeted initiatives to remove barriers and remedy current inequities. A mixed methods approach will be used to obtain information from faculty that will be used alongside the policy review to develop the blueprint for institutional transformation. The data collection portion will be used to create a systematic data set that may be used in the future to monitor change.