The 2019 Big 10 Women's Workshop (BTWW): Closing the Mentoring Loop

2019 年十大女性研讨会 (BTWW)：关闭指导循环

• 批准号: 1915830
• 负责人: Jennifer Bernhard
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1915830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2019; Big; 10; Women; Workshop

Prior research demonstrates that building professional skills and support networks of female engineering faculty, who are underrepresented in engineering colleges, can improve their retention in academia. The 2019 Big 10 Women's Workshop provides opportunities for assistant professors in their first three years of their academic appointment to learn professional skills critical to early success in their tenure track positions and long-term careers. Additionally, the workshop generates opportunities for mentorship by senior women faculty role models, along with a vehicle to foster research collaborations across institutions. Participants will be provided effective strategies and multiple pathways for pursuing rewarding and impactful careers in the academy. The workshop and follow-on activities will contribute to the hiring, retention, and success of women faculty, while also helping to increase the number of women engineering students. One goal of this project is to establish a continuous cycle of community building and networking across the Big 10 engineering colleges. In order to do this, the workshop includes participants from the prior 2010 conference and activities that foster community building. The workshop attendees will return to their home institutions with a broader professional network that will support their successful pursuit of tenure-track positions. Increased retention of female engineering faculty will additionally improve the nation's capacity for research, education, and preparation of the future engineering workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

先前的研究表明，建立女性工程学教师的专业技能和支持网络，可以提高她们在学术界的留存率。2019年十大女性研讨会为助理教授提供了在学术任命的前三年学习对其终身教职、职位和长期职业生涯早期成功至关重要的专业技能的机会。此外，研讨会提供了由资深女教员榜样进行指导的机会，以及促进跨机构研究合作的工具。将为学员提供有效的战略和多种途径，让他们在学院追求有价值和有影响力的职业。研讨会和后续活动将有助于聘用、留住和成功聘用女性教员，同时也有助于增加女性工程专业学生的数量。该项目的目标之一是在十大工程学院之间建立社区建设和网络的持续循环。为了做到这一点，讲习班包括了前一次2010年会议的与会者以及促进社区建设的活动。研讨会的参与者将带着一个更广泛的专业网络回到他们的家乡机构，这将支持他们成功地追求终身教职。增加女性工程学教师的留任将进一步提高国家的研究、教育和为未来工程劳动力做准备的能力。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。