ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award

该项目的目标是通过制度实践、政策、气候和文化的转变，促进国家科学和工程学术劳动力的发展，包括妇女充分参与各级教师和学术管理，特别是高级学术职位。UCI的中央管理部门致力于多样性和公平性，并意识到为了保持和增加其竞争优势，需要解决导致女性在学术科学和工程领域代表性低的问题。由于“浪潮II”的影响，校园即将出现的增长加剧了这种紧迫感。随着新生的涌入，商学院迎来了一个难得的机会，可以聘用至多50名新教师，这增加了招聘的周转率，预计未来10年每年将有80多名新员工。UCI打算抓住这个机会，将UCI转变为一个多元化的校园，以灵活的方法和创新的解决方案来解决影响科学和未来劳动力培训的问题。UCI的目标是：增加征聘妇女进入科学、数学、工程和技术（SMET）学科，提供支持和指导网络直至终身任职，通过收集和分析关于公平的客观和主观方面的数据来监测进展情况，促进终身任职妇女的网络和指导活动，以确保她们充分发挥潜力，包括促进提名地方、国家和国际各级的奖项。为了实现这些目标，UCI将在SMET的8所学校中分别任命一名高级教员作为公平顾问，为每所学校量身定制符合其特殊需求的公平项目。她们参与的招聘工作将包括协助搜寻委员会发展包括高素质妇女在内的多样化候选人库。他们还将根据UCI的成功模式，为初级教员设立一个指导计划。为了提高管理人员和招聘委员会对我们对个人的判断是如何因性别而改变的认识，UCI将利用由一位教员在企业界成功实施的讲习班。为了鼓励女科学家之间建立网络，UCI将组织一系列科学会议，重点关注不同的科学学科，在这些会议上，女科学家将被邀请谈论她们的研究。研讨会将允许探讨阻碍女性充分参与学术界的问题，并邀请所有教师、学生和博士后研究员参加。最后，为了切实证明促进性别平等的活动的价值，UCI将设立两个ADVANCE主席，授予具有优秀学术证书和对性别平等表现出承诺的科学领域的终身教职人员。这些椅子将在赠款期满后继续由私人捐款筹集资金。为评估这些策略的成效，大学自我评估处每年进行的自我评估调查，将由外部评估人员在第三年和第五年进行两次评估。本项目由美国国家科学基金会ADVANCE计划资助。ADVANCE计划的总体任务是通过增加女性在学术科学和工程职业中的代表性和进步来增加女性在科学和工程劳动力中的参与度。

The goal of this project is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women in all levels of faculty and academic administration, particularly at the senior academic ranks through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture. The central administration of UCI is committed to diversity and equity and realizes that to maintain and increase its competitive edge the problems contributing to the low representation of women in academic science and engineering need to be addressed. This sense of urgency is compounded by the impending growth of the campus as a result of 'Tidal Wave II'. With the influx of new students comes a rare opportunity to hire up to 50 new faculty, which added to the turnover in hiring, results in a projection of more than 80 new hires a year for the next decade. UCI intends to seize this opportunity to transform UCI into a diverse campus with flexible approaches and innovative solutions to problems that affect both science and the training of the workforce of the future.UCI's goals are: to increase the recruitment of women into Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) disciplines, provide a network of support and guidance through to tenure, monitor progress by collecting and analyzing data about the objective and subjective aspects of equity, promote networking and mentoring activities for tenured women to ensure that they develop to their fullest potential, including facilitating nominations for awards at the local, national and international levels. To accomplish these goals, UCI will appoint a senior faculty member as an Equity Advisor in each of the 8 SMET schools, to tailor an equity program for that school that meets its particular needs. Their involvement in recruiting will include assisting search committees to develop diverse candidate pools containing highly qualified women. They will also set up a mentoring program for junior faculty based on a successful UCI model. To increase awareness among administrators and search committees of the ways in which our judgment of individuals is altered by their gender, UCI will make use of workshops successfully implemented in the corporate world by one of the faculty. To encourage networking among women scientists, UCI will organize a series of scientific conferences, focused on different scientific disciplines, at which women scientists will be invited to speak about their research. Workshops will allow an exploration of the issues standing in the way of full participation of women in academia, and all faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows will be invited to participate. Finally, to provide a tangible demonstration of the value of activities that promote gender equity, UCI will establish two ADVANCE Chairs, to be awarded to tenured faculty in the sciences with both excellent academic credentials as well as demonstrated commitment to gender equity. These Chairs will be continued after the period of the grant by funds raised from private donations. To evaluate the success of these strategies, UCI's annual self-assessment surveys will be complemented by two assessments by external evaluators to be conducted in years three and five.This project is supported by the NSF ADVANCE Program. 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.