ADVANCE Leadership Award

该奖项支持科学和工程系主任的新数据库的发展和部门椅子的全面调查的发展和管理。系主任调查将收集有关受访者的个人和专业背景，他们的职业相关的看法和态度，以及他们所在部门的机构设置的信息。这些数据将支持详细的多变量分析，研究妇女进入或不进入部门领导职位的决定因素。缺乏关于系主任及其遴选过程的人口统计数据，这表明在了解妇女在担任关键学术领导职位方面取得的进展方面存在重大差距。为了解决这一知识差距，项目目标是制定和实施一个部门椅子调查，并建立一个新的数据库的人口和职业相关的信息科学和工程系chairs.This研究将有助于实现重大变化，带来光的标准和processesused选择椅子。机构问责和关于女性主席比例的公共数据的存在可以在对任命的关注程度方面产生深远的影响。系统性变革不仅必须包括增加高层行政领导的多样性，而且还必须包括地方一级的领导多样性（即，部）。这个项目是由美国国家科学基金会先进计划和美国国立卫生研究院共同支持的。高级方案的总体使命是通过增加妇女在学术科学和工程职业中的代表性和地位，增加妇女在科学和工程劳动力中的参与。

This award supports the development of a new database of science and engineeringdepartment chairs and the development and administration of a comprehensive survey ofdepartment chairs. The department chairs survey will collect information about the respondents'personal and professional background, their career-related perceptions and attitudes, and theinstitutional setting of their department. This data will support detailed multivariate analysisexamining the determinants of women's entry into, or lack of movement into, positions ofdepartmental leadership. The lack of demographic data on department chairs and the processes by which they are chosen represents a significant gap in the knowledge about the progress of women in assuming a key academic leadership position. To address this gap in knowledge, project objectives are to develop and implement a department chairs survey and to construct a new database of demographic and career-related information on science and engineering department chairs.This study will help to achieve significant change by bringing to light the criteria and processesused to select chairs. Institutional accountability and presence of public data on the proportionsof female chairs can make a profound difference in the level of attention paid to theappointments. Systemic change must include not only increasing leadership diversity in theupper administrative levels, but also at the local level (i.e., the department). The chair is alsocritical to initiating other change within the department.This project is jointly supported by the NSF ADVANCE Program and the National Institutes of Health. The overall mission of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.