PGE/PLN -- Coupling Assessment with Organizational Change Strategies: A Fresh Approach to Promoting Gender & Racial Diversity in Undergrad. Physical & Comp. Science & E

全国妇女研究理事会(NCRW)提出了一项为期12个月的规划项目，以设计一个为期三年的多地点项目，旨在改善选定的物理和计算机科学系以及工程学科本科生的招生和留住情况。这个更大的项目将侧重于有色人种女学生，她们在这些领域的代表性严重不足。考虑到技术正在改变世界经济的所有部门，以及对科学技术专长的日益增长的需求，以扩展知识和能力，该项目将涵盖的所有领域都是机会不断增加的领域。NCRW将利用其95个成员中心，以及代表广泛种族和民族多样性的特定MMET部门，这些部门为这种方法提供了机构支持的基础。其目的将是通过与妇女研究中心的伙伴关系，开发新的方法来评估环境，并在特定的MMET机构和/或部门实施变革战略，其方法将侧重于由每个校园的项目合作伙伴制定评估方案和变革战略。创新的重点是：种族、性别的交叉点；广泛的本科生环境中的评估工具和体制变革；以及跨校园的变革伙伴关系。该项目将建立在NCRW最近的《平衡等式：科学、工程和技术中的妇女和女孩在哪里？》报告、由NCRW赞助的圆桌会议和召集会议以及其从事与科学中妇女和女孩相关问题工作的中心的工作的基础上。

The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) proposes a 12-month planning project to design a multi-site three-year project aimed at improving the recruitment and retention of undergraduate women students in selected physical and computer science departments, and engineering disciplines. The larger project will focus on women students of color, who are severely under-represented in these fields. The fields that will be encompassed in this project are all areas in which there are increasing opportunities, given the ways technology is transforming whole sectors of the world economy and increasing demands for scientific and technological expertise to extend knowledge and capacity.NCRW will draw on its 95 member centers, and specific SMET departments representative of a wide range of racial and ethnic diversity, where a base of institutional support for such an approach is present. Its aim will be to develop fresh approaches to assessing environments and implementing strategies for change in specific SMET institutions and/or departments through partnerships with women's research centers, and its methodology will focus on the development of assessment protocols and change strategies by the project's partners on each campus.The innovative emphases are: intersections of race, gender; assessment tools and institutional change across a wide range of undergraduatel environments; and partnerships for change across campuses. This project will build on the findings and recommendations of the recent NCRW report Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology?, roundtables and convenings sponsored by NCRW, and on the work of its centers engaged in work on issues related to women and girls in the sciences.