ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award: Collaborative Research for Horizontal Mentoring Alliances

拟议中的项目是一种创新的方法，旨在促进文科院校的资深女性化学教师晋升为最高级别的学术领导。该项目将通过有效的同侪指导策略，提高参与教师的领导力、可见度和认可度，该策略包括在文科院校建立由资深女化学教师组成的五人横向指导联盟，以参与讨论和研讨会，重点关注职业和领导力发展。联盟的网络网络将增强对等支持结构，并促进联盟的可持续性。四名共同主要研究人员的伙伴关系将促进项目管理。提出的横向师徒联盟将直接影响不同文理院校20名资深女教师的职业发展。最终，每位教师的职业发展将为女学生灌输她们未来在STEM领域取得职业成功的信心，并为年轻的女教师提供自己职业生涯的典范。通过网络将该网络扩展到参与机构STEM学科的高级女教员，将培养一批作为机构变革领导者的人。该项目将为国家实践知识库做出贡献，这些实践可以通过每个联盟产生的职业发展资源以及将在首脑会议上制定的关于这种同侪指导方法的一套建议，提高妇女在科学和工程领域的学术职业发展。

The proposed project is an innovative approach to facilitate the advancement of senior women chemistry faculty members at liberal arts institutions to the highest ranks of academic leadership. This project will enhance the leadership, visibility, and recognition of participating faculty members with an effective peer mentoring strategy involving the establishment of five-member horizontal mentoring alliances of senior women chemistry faculty members at liberal arts institutions to engage in discussions and workshops focused on career and leadership development. Cyber-enabled networking of the alliances will augment the peer-support structure and facilitate the sustainability of the alliances. The partnership of four co-principal investigators will facilitate project management.The proposed horizontal mentoring alliances will directly impact the career development of twenty senior women faculty members at different liberal arts institutions. Ultimately, the career advancement achieved by each faculty member will instill confidence in female students of their future career success in STEM fields and provide paradigms for junior female faculty members to model their own careers. The cyber-facilitated expansion of the network to senior women faculty members in STEM disciplines at the participating institutions will develop a cohort to serve as leaders of institutional change. The project will contribute to the national knowledge base on practices that can enhance the academic career advancement of women in science and engineering through the career development resources generated by each alliance and from a set of recommendations on this peer mentoring approach that will be developed at a concludingsummit meeting.