ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award: Promoting Institutional Change at the University of Oklahoma and within the Big XII Conference

俄克拉荷马大学（University of Oklahoma）为中部各州量身定制了一个预付款项目。活动的核心是两年一次的关于教师招聘、保留和领导的大十二研讨会。作为第十二届高等教育机构会议的成员，公开大学将邀请每一所第十二届大学校（贝勒大学、科罗拉多州、爱荷华州立大学、堪萨斯州、堪萨斯州立大学、密苏里州、内布拉斯加州、俄克拉荷马州、俄克拉荷马州、德克萨斯州、德克萨斯州农工大学和德克萨斯理工大学）参加2007年的新活动，要求他们带一个团队到公开大学，为他们的校园招聘、保留和领导工作。团队将需要包括管理人员和STEM以及社会科学教师。第二次研讨会将于2009年秋季举行，届时将展示这些团队的劳动成果，并加强十二校之间的合作，以解决教师招聘、保留和领导等问题，并特别关注STEM女性在学术界的发展。讲习班活动将集中于使教员多样化和建立团队和战略，以促进教员中代表性不足的群体的成员并担任领导职务。特别关注STEM学科的女性，但这些活动使这些综合性大学的所有学科受益。该研讨会将利用从目前的NSF ADVANCE机构转型（IT）项目中挑选出来的最佳实践，特别是那些在拥有强大教师管理的大型公共机构中运作良好的实践。这些研讨会将与开放大学的适应和实施实践相吻合，以促进STEM学科中的女性，帮助她们在学术界取得成功，并进入领导岗位。该项目的智力价值是通过两个拟议的Big XII研讨会，以及通过开放大学校园的量身定制项目，将现有ADVANCE IT项目的最佳实践迅速传播和适应到中部各州的12个机构，包括三个EPSCoR州，以促进学术界STEM女性教师的制度变革。该项目的更广泛影响包括：1)扩大少数民族参与STEM学术努力的范围；2)通过在兰斯顿大学（一个HBCU）举行的年度女性科学会议，向俄克拉荷马州所有高等教育机构的女性本科生和研究生伸出援手；3)与该地区的政府机构合作，努力实现多样性；4)向美洲原住民伸出援手。特别是奇卡索民族和促进奇卡诺人和美洲原住民科学进步协会。

The University of Oklahoma (OU) runs an ADVANCE PAID project tailored to the central states. The centerpiece of the activity is a biennial Big XII Workshop on Faculty Recruitment, Retention and Leadership. As a member of the Big XII Conference of Institutions of Higher Education, OU will invite each Big XII school (Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech) to the new event in 2007, asking them to bring a team to OU to work on faculty recruitment, retention and leadership for their campus. Teams will be required to include administrators and STEM as well as Social Sciences faculty. The second workshop in Year 4, in the fall of 2009, will showcase the fruits of these teams' labors and reinforce the collaboration between the Big XII schools to address the issues of faculty recruitment, retention and leadership with a specific focus on the advancement of STEM women in academia.The workshop activities will be centered on diversifying the faculty and building teams and strategies to promote members of underrepresented groups in the faculty and to positions of leadership. The special focus is on women in STEM disciplines, but the activities benefit all disciplines of these comprehensive universities. The workshop will make use of the best practices culled from current NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) programs, in particular those that have worked well at large public institutions with strong faculty governance. The workshops will dovetail with the adaptation and implementation of practices at OU to promote women in STEM disciplines, to help them succeed in academia and to move into positions of leadership. The Intellectual Merit of the project is rapid dissemination and adaptation of best practices of the existing ADVANCE IT projects to twelve institutions in the central states, including three EPSCoR states, through two proposed Big XII workshops and through tailored programs on the OU campus for institutional change in advancing STEM women faculty in academia.The Broader Impacts of the project include 1) a broadening of ethnic minorities involved in STEM academic endeavors, 2) outreach to women undergraduate and graduate students at all institutions of higher education in Oklahoma through the annual Women in Science Conference held at Langston University (a HBCU), 3) collaboration with government agencies in the region in diversity efforts and 4) outreach to Native American populations, specifically the Chickasaw Nation and the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.