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

这个项目是斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院的合作，这两所小型的、选择性的文理学院位于纽约州北部，旨在加强STEM学科中女性的招聘和保留，并通过排名促进她们的进步。这个多方面的项目使用并调整了大型研究机构的NSF ADVANCE机构转型项目的示范工具，以适应Skidmore和Union学院的气候和条件，并更广泛地为这些资源的适应、翻译、发展和扩展做出了贡献，这些资源主要用于一般的本科文理学院。知识价值。Skidmore学院和Union学院的教学、奖学金和服务的相对重要性与研究型大学大不相同，这些大型研究机构的示范工具将为NSF ADVANCE“最佳实践”组合提供有价值的模型和资源。值得注意的是，斯基德莫尔学院和联合学院在很多方面都有很大的不同：斯基德莫尔学院从1971年开始男女同校，最初是一所传统上强调艺术和人文学科的女子学院。在过去的十年中，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男校，自1970年以来也是男女同校，历史上一直有很强的学术科学和工程取向——大约40%的学生主修实验科学和工程。因此，这两个机构为该项目带来了不同的经验和优势，并且为该项目开发的工具有望广泛适用于各种各样的文科院校。该项目针对STEM学科中处于两个特定职业阶段的女性教师：终身教职女性和在该职位上工作七年或七年以上的终身副教授。中心目标是为这些女性提供资源和支持，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，我们试图了解影响招聘、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)旨在认识和消除STEM学科中的性别偏见的活动，包括气候调查、招聘和晋升培训讲习班、提高校园意识的公共活动和减少本科生偏见的教育活动；(2)为STEM教师提供指导和发展机会，帮助他们推进职业发展的活动，包括：创建STEM学科女性的跨机构指导网络，支持研究、高级教育和教学负荷调整。本项目中的活动将改编自目前在其他ADVANCE机构使用的示范实践，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。他们将由STEM教师组成的Skidmore-Union网络（SUN）委员会监督，该委员会模仿了密歇根大学成功的ADVANCE项目。将建立一个网站，帮助参与的妇女了解所提供的所有项目，并帮助她们寻找潜在的合作者和导师。更广泛的影响。此计划旨在两所知名文理学院之间建立可持续的伙伴关系，以加强、招聘、保留和提升女性在STEM学科的地位，并将在此资助下开发的模式和资源广泛传播给其他文理学院。它包含了一些活动和工具，通过开发广泛的学校及其教师可以访问的网络资源，以及通过将其实践和发现传播给其他寻求推进其女性教师职业生涯的文理学院，来加强STEM学科中女性教师的教学和学术研究。

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.