NSF INCLUDES DDLP: WiSEN - Supporting Minoritized Women Students in STEM, Cultivating Pathways Using Mentoring Networks

NSF 包括 DDLP：WiSEN - 支持 STEM 领域的少数民族女学生，利用辅导网络培养途径

• 批准号: 2304093
• 负责人: Elizabeth Dell
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; DDLP; WiSEN; Supporting

The Women in STEM Education Network (WiSEN) is a co-mentoring network for historically underrepresented and marginalized graduate and undergraduate women students in STEM. This INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot project engages students in structured conversations, identifies mentoring needs, and explores the systemic barriers that hinder women’s participation in STEM. The project goal is to expand upon best practices in STEM mentoring, while building a national networked community for minoritized women students. The initial phase of the project is design, development, and launch of the WiSEN project among four higher education institutions- Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Montana, Washington State University, and Gonzaga University.The WiSEN project functions as a Networked Improvement Community (NIC). NIC models have demonstrated effectiveness when researchers, students, and institutional leaders collaborate to develop solutions for institutional and systemic change. This NIC model provides the basis for the WiSEN co-mentoring infrastructure, which operates in virtual and in-person hybrid spaces. WiSEN participants engage in critical and courageous dialogue centering on: 1) Understanding Institutional Power and Navigating Systemic Barriers; 2) Leveraging Cultural Wealth and Intersectional Identities; 3) Networking for Systemic Change; and 4) Co-mentoring Future Leaders. Research insights fill important knowledge gaps regarding best practices for mentoring women and provide a platform for this scalable network that can be implemented beyond the initial four university partners. This project is funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.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.

妇女参与STEM教育网络（Women in STEM Education Network，WiSEN）是一个为STEM领域历来代表性不足和被边缘化的研究生和本科女生提供指导的网络。这包括设计和开发启动试点项目让学生参与结构化对话，确定辅导需求，并探讨阻碍妇女参与STEM的系统性障碍。该项目的目标是推广STEM辅导方面的最佳做法，同时为少数群体女学生建立一个全国网络社区。该项目的初始阶段是在四所高等教育机构--罗切斯特理工学院、蒙大拿大学、华盛顿州立大学和贡扎加大学--之间设计、开发和启动WiSEN项目。WiSEN项目作为网络改进社区（NIC）发挥作用。NIC模型已被证明是有效的，当研究人员，学生和机构领导人合作开发解决方案的制度和系统的变化。这种NIC模型为WiSEN共同指导基础设施提供了基础，该基础设施在虚拟和面对面的混合空间中运行。WiSEN参与者围绕以下问题进行关键和勇敢的对话：1）了解机构权力和导航系统性障碍; 2）利用文化财富和交叉身份; 3）系统性变革网络;以及4）共同指导未来领导者。研究见解填补了关于指导妇女的最佳做法的重要知识空白，并为这个可扩展的网络提供了一个平台，可以在最初的四个大学合作伙伴之外实施。该项目由NSF的Eddie伯尼采约翰逊在工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区的全国包容性资助（包括）倡议，该奖项旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，从而扩大对STEM的大规模参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。