ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: The University of Maryland Eastern Shore ADVANCE Program

UMES高级方案的目标是在该大学进行重大改革，这将增加STEM学科的女性人数，帮助这些学科的女性获得晋升、获得终身教职、过渡到领导角色，并减少部门内部的孤立。三个目标是：通过加强UMES的学术基础设施，促进STEM学科女性教员的职业发展，将UMES STEM学科的终身女教员比例从9%提高到21%。改变UMES的行政政策和程序，并增加新的行政计划，以促进STEM学科中女性教员的职业发展。发展UMES高级妇女中心，该中心将对女性教师的职业发展采取全面的方法。学术界的女性，特别是少数群体的女性，必须克服许多障碍和障碍，这在STEM学科中最为明显。通过机构改革和组织承诺，UMES高级方案将通过开发方法和扩大知识库来消除这些障碍，以解决少数族裔妇女在STEM学科中代表性不足的问题。该计划将引入新的战略和修改后的现有方法，这些方法由妇女科学协会和其他先进计划等组织概述。这类活动将增加涉及妇女发展、进步和提高生产力的机会，方法是将重点放在一系列活动上，包括UMES女教员在STEM学科的休假，UMES/UMBC联合高级学术交流计划，修订UMES家属照顾的休假政策，建立行政奖学金计划，修订STEM学科的终身教职和晋升标准，以反映更广泛的奖学金定义，并采用全面的方法发展UMES高级妇女中心。UMES高级计划的目标是在大学做出重大改变，增加STEM学科的女性人数，帮助这些学科的女性获得晋升，获得终身教职，过渡到领导角色，减少部门内部的孤立。因此，UMES将成为发展促进女性职业发展的学术和行政基础设施的典范。虽然UMES高级方案将解决STEM学科中女性的需求，但它也将提供亟需的扩展，在历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)中，对STEM学科中代表性不足的少数族裔女性进行研究。由于UMES先行方案的一项主要活动是召开一次关于STEM学科中任职人数不足的少数族裔妇女的会议，广泛的利益攸关方将从会议记录的分发中受益。

The goal of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to make major changes at the University which will increase the number of women in STEM disciplines, help women within these disciplines earn promotion, gain tenure, transition to leadership roles and reduce isolation within their departments. The three objectives are to: Increase the percentage of tenured women faculty in the STEM disciplines at UMES from 9% to 21% by enhancing the academic infrastructure at UMES to promote career advancement for women faculty in STEM disciplines. Change administrative policies and procedures at UMES and add new administrative programs topromote career advancement for women faculty in STEM disciplines. Develop the UMES ADVANCE Women's Center which will utilize a holistic approach toward women faculty career development.There are many barriers and obstacles that must be overcome by women in academia especially minoritywomen, and this is most pronounced in the STEM disciplines. Through institutional transformation, andorganizational commitment, the UMES ADVANCE program will remove these barriers by developing methods and broadening the knowledge base to address the under-representation of minority women in STEM disciplines. The program will introduce both novel strategies and modified existing approaches outlined by organizations such as the Association of Women in Science and other ADVANCE programs. Such activities will increase opportunities that will address women's development, advancement and increased productivity by focusing on a combination of activities including sabbatical leave for UMES women faculty in the STEM disciplines, establishment of a joint UMES/UMBC ADVANCE Academic Exchange Program, revision of the UMES leave policy for dependent care, establishment of an Administrative Fellowship Program, revision of tenure and promotions criteria in the STEMdisciplines to reflect a broader definition of scholarship and development of the UMES ADVANCE Women's Center using a holistic approach.The goal of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to make major changes at the University which willincrease the number of women in STEM disciplines, help women within these disciplines earn promotion, gain tenure, transition to leadership roles and reduce isolation within their departments. As such, UMES will serve as a model for developing academic and administrative infrastructure for promoting the advancement of women careers.While the UMES ADVANCE Program will address the needs of women in STEM disciplines, it will also provide the much needed expansion of the research on underrepresented minority women in STEM disciplines at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since a major activity of the UMES ADVANCE Program is to convene a conference on underrepresented minority women in STEM disciplines, a wide audience of stakeholders will benefit from the circulation of the proceedings of the conference.