Institutional Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N)

国际基础结构、水利和环境工程学院资助轨道旨在通过对特定方案或倡议进行网络调整，为STEM教职员工扩大已被证明成功的性别平等倡议的应用。仔细的评估预计将扩大不同机构和机构类型对此类倡议的理解。发展卓越学术领导力-国家(IDEAL-N)项目的机构将在俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州的10所研究型大学之间建立一个学习社区，以促进学术科学与工程(S与工程)学科的性别平等。这10所合作大学包括凯斯西部储备大学(CWRU)、保龄格林州立大学、克利夫兰州立大学、肯特州立大学、阿克伦大学、托莱多大学和卡内基梅隆大学、杜奎恩大学、印第安纳大学、宾夕法尼亚大学和匹兹堡大学。Idea-N将建立在早先的CWRU先期项目Idea中取得的成功转型和成果的基础上。Idea-N由四个要素组成：领导力提升培训、年度变革项目、全体会议和制定股票指数。这一机构学习社区的创建不仅将有利于个别大学的实践和政策，还将为国家促进科技事业、刺激和引导经济发展、扭转学术S和E&E的人才流失的努力提供信息。理想-N将高级管理人员作为变革的中心，并提供强化的教育、领导力发展和支持组件。该项目将采用一个创新的技术平台，使用思科的网真，为全国受众重新想象和刺激具有成本效益的信息传播和网络。该项目将在每所大学确定多个级别的变革实施团队，以领导机构变革，其中包括：一名联席主任、一名变革领导者和一名社会科学教员。联席主任将是教务长办公室一级的高级行政人员。改革负责人将由S工程学院的系主任或高级教职员工领导担任。包括一名社会科学家，帮助将社会科学理论和有关性别平等的有前途的实践文献转化为S与教育学科内的可操作项目。围绕一个关键的体制改革主题的年度变革项目将在每个机构实施三年。每个变革实施团队将选择一个与其校园相关的变革主题/问题/需求，以改善S教育学院的性别公平。改革项目将在复杂性和范围上有所不同，但它们将直接涉及选定的IDEAM-N部门内的转型主题，并直接或间接涉及较大的机构。在以前的理想项目的另一个极其成功的要素的基础上，将在每一年的理想-N初夏期间举行三次全体会议。这些会议将利用网真平台聚集来自合作机构的高级学术领袖、变革实施团队成员以及学术领导力和性别平等方面的国家专家，以交流知识并设计解决方案来实现变革。根据以前先期项目的研究和经验，以及关于促进学术生涯中性别平等的文献，IDEAM-N将开发一个创新的性别公平指数，作为学术机构的评估和基准工具。该指数的标准将包括促进性别多样性、公平和包容性的最佳做法，特别关注残疾和代表性不足的种族和少数民族女性教师。NSF学习和适应网络高级伙伴关系(PLAN)计划跟踪支持在新背景下促进适应和实施先前有效的高级计划的项目，并测试创新战略，以促进女性在STEM学术生涯中的参与、成功和提升。计划项目还有助于建立学术生涯中性别平等的知识库。

The PLAN-IHE funding track is designed to expand the application of proven-successful gender-equity initiatives for STEM faculty through networked adaptation of a specific program or initiative. Careful evaluation is expected to expand understanding of such initiatives across institutions and institution types.The Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N) project will build a learning community among 10 research universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania to promote gender equality in academic Science & Engineering (S&E) disciplines. The 10 partner universities include Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Bowling Green State University, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, University of Akron and University of Toledo and Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh. IDEAL-N will build on the successful transformations and outcomes achieved in the earlier CWRU ADVANCE project, IDEAL. IDEAL-N is comprised of four elements: leadership enhancement training, annual change projects, plenary conferences, and development of an equity index. The creation of this institutional learning community will benefit not only the practices and policies of the individual universities, but will also inform the nation's efforts to foster science and technology careers, stimulate and redirect economic development, and reverse the drain of talent from academic S&E. IDEAL-N targets senior administrators as the locus of change and provides intensified educational, leadership development, and support components. The project will employ an innovative technology platform, using Cisco's TelePresence, to re-imagine and stimulate cost-effective information dissemination and networking for a national audience. The project will identify multilevel Change Implementation Teams at each university to lead institutional transformation that include: a co-director, a change leader, and a social science faculty member. The co-director will be a senior administrator at the Provost's Office level. The change leader will be a department chair or senior faculty leader in an S&E department. A social scientist is included to help translate social science theory and the promising practice literature on gender equity into actionable projects within S&E disciplines. Annual change projects focused around a key institutional transformation theme will be implemented at each institution over three years. Each Change Implementation Team will select a transformational theme/issue/need relevant to their campus to improve gender equity in a S&E department. The change projects will vary in complexity and scope, but they will directly address the transformational theme within the IDEAL-N departments selected, and directly or indirectly address the larger institution. Building on another extremely successful element of the previous IDEAL project, three plenary conferences will be held during the early summer of each year of IDEAL-N. These conferences will use the TelePresence platform to gather senior academic leaders from the partner institutions, Change Implementation Team members, and national experts on academic leadership and gender equity to exchange knowledge and design solutions to effect change. Based on the research and experience of previous ADVANCE projects, as well as from the literature on promoting gender equity in academic careers, IDEAL-N will develop an innovative Gender Equity Index to serve as an assessment and benchmarking tool for academic institutions. The criteria for this index will include best practices to promote gender diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a special focus on disabled and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority women faculty.The NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Learning and Adaptation Networks (PLAN) program track supports projects that promote the adaptation and implementation of previously effective ADVANCE programs in new contexts and the testing of innovative strategies to promote the participation, success, and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. PLAN projects also contribute to the knowledge base on gender equity in academic careers.