ADVANCE IT Start Award: Toward Fostering Women Faculty in STEM Fields

UMND摘要尽管明尼苏达大学杜卢斯（UMD）在教育STEM领域的劳动力方面发挥着重要作用，但提供这种培训的教师的性别和种族特征远远小于学生的多样性。UMD的女教师人数？斯文森科学与工程学院（SCSE）的女性比例远低于全国平均水平，SCSE终身教职教师中女性比例不到14%，全职教授中女性比例不到4%。此外，近年来SCSE中女教员的流失率大大高于SCSE男教员。这个为期两年的规划和评估项目将确定是否存在不利于UMD女性，特别是STEM领域女性的招聘，任期，晋升和提升的体制障碍。智力优势：UMD将采取以证据为基础的方法来了解妇女在UMD STEM领域的现状。这种方法需要收集广泛、深入和全面的机构数据以及一系列非机构数据。UMD将对这些数据进行稳健，仔细和全面的分析，以了解女性STEM教师的地位。此外，还将研究一系列由全国各地学术机构确定、开创和测试的招聘、留住和提升STEM女性的最佳做法。该提案将致力于在SCSE和UMD内部实现透明和公平的专业环境，并促进女性STEM教师成功的学术生涯，包括晋升为最高级别的学术领导。这些活动将使我们能够设计一个全面、综合和成功的体制改革计划，为了提高UMD在这些领域内的教育历史上的强大作用，增加STEM教师的多样性的目标;教师多样性的增加反过来又有助于增强科学，工程和技术领域未来劳动力的多样性。预计机构转型计划将有利于所有UMD教师，学生和工作人员，并可能成为其他类似机构的典范。

UMND Abstract Despite the important role the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) plays in educating the workforce in STEM fields, the gender and ethnic profile of its faculty members who provide this training is far narrower than the diversity of its students. The number of women faculty in UMD?s Swenson College of Sciences and Engineering (SCSE) falls well below national averages with women comprising less than 14% of the SCSE tenure-track faculty, and 4% of the full professors. In addition, the attrition of female faculty within SCSE in recent years is considerably higher than for SCSE male faculty members. This two-year planning and assessment project will determine if there are institutional barriers that work against the hiring, tenure, promotion, and advancement of women at UMD in general, and women in the STEM fields in particular. Intellectual Merit: UMD will undertake an evidence-based approach to understanding the current status of women within the STEM fields at UMD. Such an approach requires collection of a broad, deep, and thorough suite of institutional data, as well as a range of non-institutional data. UMD will pursue robust, careful, and comprehensive analysis of these data in order to understand the status of women STEM faculty. In addition, a range of best practices for recruitment, retention, and advancement of STEM women that have been identified, pioneered, and tested by academic institutions across the country will be studied. This proposal will work toward achieving a professional environment within SCSE and UMD that is transparent and equitable, and that facilitates successful academic careers for female STEM faculty, including advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership.Broader Impact: Together these activities will enable us to design a comprehensive, integrative, and successful plan for institutional change, with the goal of increasing diversity in STEM faculty in order to advance UMD's historically strong role in education within these field; increases in faculty diversity contribute in turn to enhanced diversity in the future workforce in science, engineering, and technological fields. It is anticipated that an institutional transformation plan will be beneficial for all UMD faculty, students and staff and could be a model for other similar institutions.