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

新成立的CISSTEM：南亚拉巴马大学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。来自南亚拉巴马大学（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）和多芬岛海洋实验室（DISL）的科学家在CISSTEM的保护伞下联合起来，突出、支持和发展亚拉巴马和密西西比墨西哥湾沿岸的女科学家。 这些机构为至少60%的女性和高达44%的非裔美国人的学生人口提供服务。五个项目主任横跨心理学，计算机科学，数学，海洋科学和气象学领域。 该项目的目的是帮助塑造一个心理健康的工作场所（阿帕，2012），这是既严格和体贴的工作与生活的平衡。墨西哥湾沿岸先进计划有三个主要目标：（1）突出，促进和鼓励我们的77干女教师的科学研究和成就;（二）通过在该地区聚集足够数量的STEM女性作为专业人员，遏制女性科学家在工作中所经历的孤立支持和合作网络;（3）改变文化和机构格局，以便在政策和实践中明确解决工作与生活平衡问题，为所有科学家营造一个更健康、更富有成效的环境。该项目利用以前的ADVANCE赠款获得者所产生的关于科学领域妇女性别问题的丰富文献，指导妇女的辅导和合作活动，并形成管理人员培训和政策讨论。 该项目旨在改善女科学家个人的工作场所，并在所有四个机构建立工作场所，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.