ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) Award: Collaborative Research - SUN: Supporting Women Faculty in STEM at Liberal Arts Colleges

该项目是斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院的合作项目，这两所小型精选文科学院位于纽约州北部，旨在加强STEM学科中女性的招聘和留住，并促进她们在职级中的晋升。这一多方面的计划使用并调整了大型研究机构的NSF高级机构转型计划的示范工具，以适应斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院的气候和条件，并更广泛地有助于将这些资源适应、翻译、开发和扩展到以本科为主的文科学院。智力上的优点。将大型研究机构的示范工具应用于斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院，这两所学院在教学、奖学金和服务方面的相对重要性与研究型大学大不相同，这将为NSF高级“最佳实践”组合提供宝贵的模式和资源。应该指出的是，斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院在很大程度上是不同的：斯基德莫尔学院自1971年开始实行男女同校，最初是一所传统上强调艺术和人文学科的女子学院。在过去十年中，它成功地提高了STEM学科在其课程中的作用。联合大学以前是一所全男性大学，自1970年以来也是男女同校，历史上一直以学术科学和工程为导向--大约40%的学生主修实验室科学和工程。因此，这两个机构为该项目带来了不同的经验和优势，为该项目开发的工具有望对各种文科机构具有广泛的适用性。该项目针对STEM学科中处于两个特定职业阶段的女性教员：终身教职女性和在该职级已有七年或更长时间的终身副教授。一个中心目标是为这些妇女提供资源和支持，使她们从助理晋升为终身副教授，或从副教授晋升为正教授。此外，我们寻求了解影响招聘、教师发展和女性晋升的当地气候问题，并创造环境，使我们的机构在STEM学科中实现更平衡的性别比例。该项目包括两类活动：(1)旨在承认和消除STEM学科中性别偏见的活动，包括气候调查、招聘和晋升培训讲习班、在校园内提高认识的公共活动和减少本科生偏见的教育活动；(2)为STEM教员提供辅导和发展机会以帮助他们推进职业生涯的活动，包括：在STEM学科创建一个跨机构的妇女导师网络，支持研究、高级教育和教学负荷调整。该项目中的活动将借鉴其他先进机构目前正在使用的示范做法，如弗吉尼亚理工大学、威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和密歇根大学。它们将由一个由STEM教员组成的斯基德莫尔-联盟网络(SUN)委员会监督，该委员会仿照密歇根大学的一个成功的预科项目。将开发一个网站，帮助参与的妇女了解所有提供的项目，并帮助寻找潜在的合作者和导师。更广泛的影响。该项目的目的是在两所备受推崇的文理学院之间建立可持续的伙伴关系，以提高、招聘、留住和提升STEM学科的女性，并向其他文科学校广泛传播根据这笔赠款开发的模式和资源。它包含了一些活动和工具，以加强STEM学科中女教员的教学和学术研究，方法是开发各种学校及其教员都可使用的网上资源，并将其做法和研究结果传播给其他文理学院，以促进其女教员的职业生涯。

This project is a collaboration of Skidmore College and Union College, two small, selective liberal arts colleges located in close proximity in upstate New York, to enhance the recruitment and retention of women in the STEM disciplines and to promote their advancement through rank. The multifaceted program uses and adapts exemplary tools from NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation programs at large research institutions to the climate and conditions at Skidmore and Union Colleges and more broadly contributes to the adaptation, translation, development and expansion of these resources to predominately undergraduate liberal arts colleges in general. Intellectual merit. The adaptation of exemplary tools from large research institutions to Skidmore College and Union College, where the relative importance of teaching, scholarship, and service is quite different from research universities, will provide valuable models and resources for the NSF ADVANCE "Best Practices" portfolio. It should be noted that Skidmore and Union differ from one another in significant ways: Skidmore, co-educational since 1971, was originally a women's college that traditionally emphasized arts and humanities. Over the course of the past decade, it has been successful in increasing the role of the STEM disciplines in its curriculum. Union is a formerly all-male college, also coeducational since 1970, that historically has had a strong academic science and engineering orientation -- approximately 40% of its students major in the lab sciences and engineering. Thus, the two institutions bring different experiences and strengths to the project, and tools developed for this project are expected to have broad applicability to a wide variety of liberal arts institutions. The project targets women faculty in the STEM disciplines at two specific career stages: tenure-track women and tenured associate professors who have been at that rank for seven or more years. A central goal is to provide these women with the resources and support to move up in rank from assistant to tenured associate professor or from associate to full professor. In addition, we seek to understand local climate issues that affect hiring, faculty development, and promotion of women and create environments that will result in a more balanced gender ratio in STEM disciplines at our institutions. The project comprises two types of activities: (1) activities aimed at recognizing and combating gender bias in the STEM disciplines, including climate surveys, training workshops for hiring and promotion, public events to raise awareness across campus and educational activities to reduce undergraduate bias; and (2) activities providing STEM faculty with mentoring and development opportunities to help them advance their careers, including: the creation of a cross-institutional mentoring network of women in the STEM disciplines and support for research, advanced education and teaching load modification. The activities in this project will be adapted from exemplary practices currently in use at other ADVANCE institutions, such as Virginia Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Michigan. They will be overseen by a Skidmore-Union Network (SUN) Committee of STEM faculty that is modeled after a successful ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan. A website will be developed to help participating women learn about all the programs that are offered, and also to facilitate finding potential collaborators and mentors. Broader impacts. This project is designed to build a sustainable partnership between two highly regarded liberal arts colleges for the enhancement, recruitment, retention and advancement of women in the STEM disciplines and to broadly disseminate the models and resources developed under this grant to other liberal arts schools. It contains activities and tools to strengthen the teaching and scholarship of women faculty in the STEM disciplines, through the development of web-based resources that are accessible to a wide range of schools and their faculty, and by the dissemination of its practices and findings to other liberal arts colleges seeking to advance the careers of their women faculty.