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

华盛顿大学、北卡罗莱纳州立大学和加州州立理工学院圣路易斯奥比斯波分校提交了一份ADVANCE PLAN D项目，其总体目标是增加女性在学术生涯中的保留和进步，以创造更大的工程领导多样性。该项目将建立和促进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未被充分代表的少数族裔女性。早期职业女性（博士后和早期职业教师阶段）将通过跨职业阶段的网络、社区建设、职业发展专题讨论会和同行指导圈得到支持。该项目采用了华盛顿大学先前成功的两项工作：1)妇女进化生物科学（web）：为早期职业女性在生态学和进化领域的专业发展专题讨论会；2)扩大神经科学学术研究者的代表性（BRAINS）：为早期职业中未被充分代表的少数民族神经科学家举办的指导圈专题讨论会。该项目将研究如何最好地将这些成功的项目应用于两个新的学科，并开发一个模型框架，以允许其他人为各种领域和人群开发此类项目。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、实施和适应成功干预项目至关重要的原则和过程的新知识。该项目的评估将确定最佳做法，以支持妇女在学术生涯中取得成功，并使工程教授多样化。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，并将通过华盛顿大学ADVANCE在线“自己领导！”工具包分享。美国国家科学基金会ADVANCE学习与适应网络伙伴关系（PLAN）项目跟踪支持促进在新环境下适应和实施先前有效的ADVANCE计划的项目，以及测试创新策略以促进女性在STEM学术生涯中的参与、成功和进步的项目。PLAN项目还为STEM学术生涯中的性别平等知识库做出了贡献。PLAN-D资助项目旨在通过对特定项目或计划的网络化调整，扩大在特定学科领域为STEM教师实施的已证明成功的性别平等倡议的应用。期望通过仔细的评价来扩大对学科背景下这些倡议的理解。

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.