ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Excellence in Science and Engineering (EXCELinSE) at WSU

华盛顿州立大学坚定地致力于培养一个促进多样性的环境。尽管做出了这样的承诺，但在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科的教师和领导层之间实现性别平等方面仍然存在挑战。华盛顿州立大学卓越科学与工程项目（excelse）的前提是，在关键的转折点，女性会从学院流失：博士毕业后；pre -任期;post-tenure;在个人的里程碑（例如，分娩）。我们的项目目标是：(1)通过在这些关键点上提供机构支持来增加女性在STEM学科中的代表性；(2)为其他研究密集型、农村、赠地大学制定/传播创新战略；(3)创建一个基础设施，提供最高的制度支持，并确保在赠款的整个生命周期之后进行转型。我们的四个主要举措是：(1)准备和招聘多元化的教师队伍，旨在鼓励新的女性STEM博士毕业生考虑学术事业；(2)工作/生活倡议，解决所有大学教职员工保留和晋升的制度和个人障碍；(3)领导力培训计划，解决招聘、保留和晋升方面的气候和领导力障碍；(4)制度化转型倡议，旨在组织、监测和评估制度进展，并向更广泛的学术界传播最佳实践。这些举措将通过华盛顿州立大学的excelse中心实施。这些举措包括解决我们独特情况的创新，并有可能影响我们的同行机构，包括：(1)excelse夏季博士研究员计划，来自其他研究机构的女性STEM博士候选人在wsu普尔曼校园度过夏季，参加研究和学术生涯研讨会，接受STEM学科教师的指导，并努力完成他们的论文；(2)与爱达荷大学的双职业合作伙伴关系，在两所大学提供互惠的合作伙伴住宿资源；(3)婴儿护理占位符计划；(4)外部辅导计划（External Mentoring program），将STEM领域的女性教师与其他大学的成功女性教师联系起来，进行辅导。知识价值：该项目的研究部分将提供通过学术组织传播新实践的见解，以及对部门文化和领导的影响。通过确定部门层面的促进或抑制举措制度化的因素，本研究将有利于其他寻求转型的机构。我们将从其他机构引进成功的ADVANCE计划，并展示我们自己独特的创新计划（例如，与爱达荷大学的双职业伙伴关系），这将使华盛顿州立大学和更广泛的研究型大学社区受益（例如，EXCLEinSE暑期博士研究员计划），适用于研究密集型，农村，赠地机构（例如，婴儿护理占位者计划）。或适用于一般学院（例如，外部指导计划）。更广泛的影响。在小型农村社区解决与STEM学科女性教员相关的特殊挑战，对其他类似机构也有影响。例如，夏季博士研究员项目不仅有利于华盛顿州立大学，也有利于其他在研究员完成项目后聘用他们的研究机构。该项目将促进我们对以下方面的影响的理解：为教授培养未来的教师，创造一个工作/生活响应型的工作场所，以及在学术STEM学科中吸引、招聘和提升女性的领导举措。改善所有教师的氛围将导致多元化教师的保留和发展，为学生提供更多的榜样。这最终将导致越来越多的学生从事STEM领域的职业，从而满足全国的需求。

Washington State University is deeply committed to fostering an environment that pro-motes diversity. Despite this commitment, challenges remain in achieving gender equity among the faculty and leadership in sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The premise of the Excellence in Sciences and Engineering (EXCELinSE) at WSUproject is that women are lost from the academy at critical transition points: after the PhD; pre- tenure; post-tenure; and at personal milestones (e.g., childbirth). Our project goals are to: (1) increase representation of women in STEM disciplines by providing institutional support at these critical points; (2) develop/disseminate innovative strategies for other research-intensive, rural, land grant universities; and (3) create an infrastructure that provides the highest institutional support, and insures transformation beyond the lifetime of the grant.Our four major initiatives are: (1) Preparing and Recruiting a Diverse Faculty, designed to encourage new women STEM PhD graduates to consider academic careers; (2) Work/Life Initiative, to address institutional and individual barriers to retention and advancement for all university faculty members; (3) Leadership Training Initiative, which addresses climate and leadership barriers to recruitment, retention and advancement; and (4) Institutionalizing Transformation Initiative, which is aimed at organizing, monitoring and assessing institutional progress, and disseminating best practices to the broader academic community. These initiatives will be implemented through the Center for EXCELinSE at WSU.These initiatives include innovations that address our unique situation and have the potential to impact our peer institutions, including: (1) The EXCELinSE Summer Doctoral Fellows program, where women STEM PhD candidates from other research institutions spend the summer on the WSU-Pullman campus, attending workshops on research and academic careers, receiving mentoring from faculty members in STEM disciplines, and working on completing their dissertations; (2) The Dual-Career Partnership with University of Idaho, to provide reciprocal partner accommodation resources at both universities; (3) The Infant Care Placeholder program; and (4) The External Mentoring program, in which STEM faculty women are linked with successful women faculty at other universities for mentoring.Intellectual merit: The research component of this project will provide insights into diffusion of new practices through academic organizations and the impact on departmental cultures and leadership. By identifying the departmental-level factors that enhance or inhibit the institutionalization of initiatives, this research will benefit other institutions seeking transformation. We will both import successful ADVANCE initiatives from other institutions and demonstrate our own innovative initiatives that are unique to our situation (e.g., the Dual Career Partnership with the University of Idaho), that will benefit both WSU and the broader research university community (e.g., the EXCLEinSE Summer Doctoral Fellows Program), that are applicable to research-intensive, rural, land-grant institutions (e.g., Infant Care Placeholder program), or that are applicable to the general academy (e.g., the External Mentoring program).Broader impacts. Addressing the special challenges associated with women faculty in STEM disciplines at small, rural communities has implications for other similar institutions. For example, the Summer Doctoral Fellows program will benefit not only WSU but other research institutions that hire the fellows after they complete the program. This project will advance our understanding of the impact of preparing future faculty for the professoriate, creating a work/life responsive workplace, and leadership initiatives on attracting, recruiting, and advancing women in academic STEM disciplines. Improving the climate for all faculty will result in the retention and advancement of a diverse faculty which provides more role models for students. This will ultimately lead to increases in students pursuing careers in STEM, thus addressing a national need.