ADVANCE Leadership Award: Collaborative Proposal - FORWARD to Professorship

俄克拉荷马大学、乔治华盛顿大学和加拉德特大学联合开展了为期三年的合作，以加强、介绍和评估科学、工程和数学(SEM)女性终身教职前培训课程。该研讨会在之前的先行领导奖下已经开发和展示了三次。需求依然存在：每年研讨会的订阅量都很高，参与者报告说，他们对研讨会的体验感到满意，并对研讨会充满热情。在过去一年(2005年)，87%到99%的参与者对课程的评价是好的或优秀的，100%的参与者表示他们会向同事推荐。在接下来的三年里，协作团队计划：__继续研讨会，__加强研讨会的具体内容，如谈判部分，__扩大覆盖范围，包括一个名为“记住差距”的新部分，他们将专注于已经或正在计划中断SEM职业生涯的女性，__在研讨会之外建立一个支持结构，以及__进行更详细的评估和评估。联合PIS将与各自的机构合作，在教师队伍的多样性方面创造持久的变化。该项目的智力价值在于为考虑或担任终身教职的女性(和男性)开发跨学科的技能培训方法和材料，创建一个在SEM学科中接受类似高水平培训的女性社区，可以在几年内达到并研究这些培训，以及对女性在SEM职业生涯中断中的情况进行研究。该项目的更广泛影响是广泛的。该项目旨在扩大妇女、少数群体、聋人和重听者在教职队伍中的参与，从而促进国家需要使教师队伍多样化。该项目提供了接触这些人群中的榜样以及支持网络的机会，这两者都将提高学院的成功率。这种越来越大的成功反过来又会影响到EM学科的学生人数。该项目还通过通知即将上任的教员班级以及院长和教席参加讲习班和调查结果，影响和创造了高等教育机构的系统性变化。研究生和本科生也将从该项目的工作中学习，并被鼓励走上一条通往教授职位的道路。

The University of Oklahoma, the George Washington University and GallaudetUniversity join together for a three-year collaborative effort to enhance, present andassess the FORWARD to Professorship workshop for pre-tenured women in science,engineering and mathematics (SEM). The workshop has been developed and presentedthree times under a previous ADVANCE Leadership award. The need persists: each yearthe workshops are oversubscribed and participants report satisfaction from, and enthusiasm for, the workshop experience. Between 87 and 99 percent of the participants rated the sessions as good or excellent in this last year (2005) and 100% of the participants said they would recommend it to their colleagues. In the next three years, the collaborative team plans:__ to continue the workshop,__ to enhance specific elements of the workshop such as the negotiation segment,__ to extend the coverage to include a new component entitled MIND THE GAP inwhich they will concentrate on women who have had or are planning a SEM careerinterruption,__ to develop a support structure beyond the workshop, and__ to do more detailed evaluation and assessment.__ Finally, the co-PIs will work with their respective institutions to create lasting changewith respect to diversity in the faculty ranks.The intellectual merit of the project lies in the development of cross-disciplinary skillstraining methods and materials for women (and men) contemplating, or in, tenure-trackfaculty positions, the creation of a community of women with similar high level trainingin SEM disciplines that can be reached and studied over a number of years, and a studyof the situation for women in SEM career interruptions.The broader impacts of the project are extensive. The project aims to broaden theparticipation of women, minorities and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the faculty ranks,thereby contributing to the national need to diversify the SEM workforce. The projectprovides access to role models in these populations as well as a support network, both of which will enhance success rates in the academy. This increased success will in turn influence the student population in SEM disciplines. The project also influences and creates systemic change in institutions of higher education by informing the incoming classes of faculty, as well as deans and chairs through their participation in the workshop and in the findings. Graduate and undergraduate students will also learn from working on the project and be encouraged to pursue a path leading to professorship.