ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: NDSU ADVANCE FORWARD - Transforming a Gendered Institution

北达科他州州立大学是一所赠地大学，自1999年以来，在校长约瑟夫·查普曼的领导下，学生入学人数（超过12，500名学生，研究生增加了2倍，国际学生增加了3倍），博士课程（41）和研究支出（超过1亿美元/年）经历了巨大的增长。尽管取得了这些重大成就，我们在多样性方面的进展一直不大，尚未达到查普曼总统的目标所需的水平，成为“全球公认的当代大都市赠地大学。"这一前进的建议汇集了精力和资源，以迎接这一重要的挑战。NDSU将建立一个正式认可的结构，即女教师地位委员会，由教务长领导并与主要行政当局联系，其战略覆盖整个大学，以实现体制气候变化和提高妇女地位，特别是在STEM学科。FORWARD团队将通过三方面的重点来实施这些转型工作：1。校园氛围：我们的目标是创造一个尊重和支持的环境，促进妇女的成功。我们将通过妇女地位委员会制定新的政策和做法，并将在平等和多样性办公室增加一名助理，以加强征聘工作。我们会以拨款形式提供诱因，鼓励进行性别研究，并会聘请顾问，协助各部门处理性别问题。此外，该计划将为管理人员和教职员工，包括院长、主席/负责人、教职员工和男性盟友，举办研讨会和培训。进步与领导力：我们的目标是确保女教师，通过指导和专业发展，获得成功的教学，研究和领导所需的知识，技能，支持和资源。该计划建立并支持职业中期和队列辅导小组，并提供课程发布，赠款写作支持，领导力培训和个人旅行的赠款。研究：我们的目标是发现，如果，如何以及为什么我们的程序工作，以改变大学。在整个项目中，我们将检查我们的流程，并评估其相对有效性的原因。我们将通过在其他大学的研讨会、专业会议和参考出版物广泛传播我们的成果。知识价值：本项目将有助于了解和理解如何激励、实施和维持制度变革，从而导致更多样化的机构，证明1）增加女性教师; 2）增加女性竞争力研究人员; 3）增加女性领导职位; 4）增加女性领导职位; 5）增加女性领导职位。四是有利于妇女发展的大环境。我们的研究旨在揭示将女性绩效与组织因素联系起来的过程，这将有助于理解如何改变性别化的机构文化和结构，以促进女性教师充分发挥潜力。推进机构转型计划将与更广泛的NDSU多样性努力合并，以创建一个更具包容性的校园社区，包括有色人种和残疾人。我们将制定计划，进行研究，并广泛传播信息，使类似的校园可以效仿我们的成功。我们的研究结果将为同行机构提供模板，在招聘，保留和提高女教师的类似问题。我们完全期望所提出的方法和评估计划中描述的结果将有助于其他机构通过发展女性研究人员能够脱颖而出的积极环境来挖掘教师的全部潜力。最重要的是，由于这笔赠款，国家国防大学的女教师将为国家的科学和技术知识基础做出贡献。

North Dakota State University is a land-grant institution that, since 1999 and under the leadership of President Joseph Chapman, has undergone tremendous growth in student enrollment (over 12,500 total students, a 2-fold increase in graduate students, and a 3-fold increase in international students), doctoral programs (41), and research expenditures (over $100 million/year). Despite these significant successes, our progress in diversity has been modest and has not yet reached the level needed to meet President Chapman's goal of becoming "globally recognized as a contemporary metropolitan land-grant university." This ADVANCE FORWARD proposal marshals energies and resources to meet this important challenge. NDSU will set in place a formally recognized structure, the Commission on the Status of Women Faculty, headed by the Provost and linked to key administrative authority, with strategies that reach across the university to achieve institutional climate change and advance women, particularly in the STEM disciplines. The FORWARD team will implement these transformational efforts with a three-prong focus:1. Campus Climate: Our goal is to create a respectful and supportive environment that fosters women's success. We will create new policies and practices through our Commission on the Status of Women and will add an assistant in the Office for Equity and Diversity to strengthen recruitment. We will provide incentives in the form of grants to encourage research on gender and will hire consultants to help departments address gender issues. Additionally, the program will set up workshops and training for groups of administrators and faculty, including deans, chairs/heads, faculty, and male allies.2. Advancement and Leadership: Our aim is to ensure that women faculty, through mentoring and professional development, receive the knowledge, skills, support, and resources needed for successful teaching, research, and leadership. The program establishes and supports mid-career and cohort mentoring groups, and offers grants for course release, grant-writing support, leadership training, and individual travel.3. Research: Our goal is to discover if, how, and why our programs work to transform the University. Throughout the project, we will examine our processes and evaluate the reasons for their relative effectiveness. We will disseminate our results broadly through workshops at other universities, professional conferences, and refereed publications.Intellectual Merit: This project will contribute knowledge and understanding of how to stimulate, implement, and sustain institutional change that leads to a more diverse institution, evidenced by 1) increased women faculty; 2) increased women competitive researchers; 3) increased women in leadership positions; and 4) an overall environment that permits women to flourish. Our research to uncover the processes that link women's performance to organizational factors will contribute to an understanding of how gendered institutional cultures and structures may be changed to facilitate the achievement of women faculty's full potential.Broader Impact: ADVANCE FORWARD programs for institutional transformation will be merged with broader NDSU diversity efforts to create a more inclusive campus community, including people of color and people with disabilities. We will develop programs, conduct research, and widely disseminate information so that similar campuses can emulate our successes. Our results will provide templates for peer institutions with similar issues on recruitment, retention, and advancement of women faculty. We fully expect that the methods proposed and the outcomes described in the evaluation program will aid other institutions to tap into the full faculty potential by developing positive environments in which women researchers can excel. Most importantly, as a result of this grant, women faculty at NDSU will contribute to the scientific and technical knowledge base of the nation.