Women Achieving Tenure-Track Success: Strategies to Enable Community-based Retention

华盛顿大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和加州理工州立学院圣路易斯·奥比斯波提交了一份先期计划D项目，其总体目标是增加女性在学术职业中的留住和提升，以在工程领导方面创造更大的多样性。该项目将建立和促进一个以社区为中心的指导、网络和职业发展计划，并将针对电气工程领域的早期职业女性以及工程和计算机科学领域代表性较低的少数族裔女性。早期职业女性(博士后和早期职业教师阶段)将通过跨职业阶段网络、社区建设、职业发展座谈会和同伴辅导圈得到支持。该项目借鉴了华盛顿大学之前成功的两项努力：1)女性进化生物科学(WEB)：为早期职业女性举办生态学和进化论专业发展座谈会；2)扩大学术研究人员在神经科学(大脑)领域的代表性：为早期职业生涯中代表性不足的少数族裔神经科学家举办研讨会，随后是辅导圈。这个项目将研究如何最好地使这些成功的项目适应两个新的学科，并开发一个模型框架，允许其他人为广泛的领域和人群开发这样的项目。为了最大限度地发挥项目的影响，该团队将使用人种学研究方法来研究项目开发的过程和独特特征，例如工程师和社会科学家之间的合作，以开发对规划、实施和适应成功的干预项目至关重要的原则和过程的新知识。对该项目的评价将确定支持妇女在学术生涯中取得成功并使工程学教授多样化的最佳做法。使这些项目对参与者产生影响的指导原则和价值观将被确定并编入一个框架中，该框架将通过华盛顿大学的高级在线“自己带头！”来分享。NSF学习和适应网络高级伙伴关系(PLAN)计划轨道支持在新的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，以促进妇女在STEM学术生涯中的参与、成功和进步。计划项目还有助于建立关于STEM学术生涯中性别平等的知识库。PLAN-D资助轨道旨在通过对特定计划或倡议进行网络调整，扩大STEM教师在特定学科领域的已被证明成功的性别平等倡议的应用。预计仔细的评估将扩大对纪律背景下此类举措的理解。

The University of Washington, North Carolina State University, and California Polytechnic State Institute, San Luis Obispo submitted an ADVANCE PLAN D project whose overall goal is to increase the retention and advancement of women in academic careers to create greater diversity in engineering leadership. This project will build and facilitate a community-centric mentoring, networking, and career development program and will target early career women in electrical engineering and underrepresented minority women in engineering and computer science. The early career women (postdoctoral and early-career faculty stage) will be supported through cross-career stage networking, community building, career development symposia, and peer Mentoring Circles. The project adapts two previously successful efforts at the University of Washington: 1) Women Evolving the Biological Sciences (WEBS): professional development symposia for early-career women in ecology and evolution and 2) Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience (BRAINS): symposia followed by Mentoring Circles for early career underrepresented minority neuroscientists. This project will examine how best to adapt these successful programs to two new disciplines and develop a model framework to allow others to develop such programs for a wide variety of fields and populations. To maximize program impact, the team will use ethnographic research methods to study the process and unique features of program development such as the collaboration between engineers and social scientists to develop new knowledge on the principles and processes critical to planning, implementing, and adapting successful intervention programs. The evaluation of the project will identify best practices to support women's success in academic careers and to diversify the engineering professoriate. The guiding principles and values that enable these programs to have impact on participants will be identified and codified in a framework that will be shared through the University of Washington's ADVANCE online "LEAD-it-Yourself!" toolkit.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 STEM academic careers. The PLAN-D funding track is designed to expand the application of proven-successful gender-equity initiatives for STEM faculty in a specific disciplinary area through networked adaptation of a specific program or initiative. Careful evaluation is expected to expand understanding of such initiatives in a disciplinary context.