WVU Program for Retaining Institutional Diversity and Equity

西弗吉尼亚大学的ADVANCE项目的总体目标是提供政策和支持，以留住和提升妇女到更高的专业级别。 这是为了应对直接需要解决STEM学科中女性教师流失的趋势。 具体而言，该项目旨在侧重于三个主要目标。 它们包括：使教师的需求和政策和做法之间的直接联系在该机构;招聘，保留和促进更多的女教师在干学科;并从事教师在对话的变化过程中，实现机构转型的机制。 由于这些措施，该机构预计能够取得令人印象深刻的成果，包括但不限于：制定可适用于所有机构类型的机构转型方法，改善气候调查和离职面谈中确定的气候问题，大幅增加STEM学科女教师的代表性，特别是在较高的教授级别。智力优势。 提案中提出了几种新的方法，包括：设立一个捐赠基金，以支持STEM领域的妇女;为新教师举办为期一周的靴子训练营;客观评价方面的遴选委员会认证，这为问责制提供了一个可行的计划;终身教职轨道第三年的小型休假，以尽量减少该机构大多数教师所经历的过度教学负担;对主席进行自然减员规划培训，以确保在现任主席离职的情况下，各部门继续取得进展。 WVU ADVANCE IT项目的一个主要优势是它专注于教师之间的对话交流，以交流气候。 该模式在提案的社会科学部分有很好的记录，但在ADVANCE社区内没有得到很大程度的审查。 更广泛的影响。 西弗吉尼亚州先进的IT项目建议利用实现机构转型的机制，有可能适应所有机构类型，包括两年制机构。 为此，该项目有可能影响典型和非典型的ADVANCE机构。 预计将通过传统手段广泛传播项目成果，包括同行审查的期刊文章、国家介绍和有针对性的外联活动。

The West Virginia University ADVANCE project has an overall goal of providing policies and support to retain and promote women to higher professorial ranks. This is in response to a direct need to address an increasing trend of faculty attrition among women in the STEM disciplines. Specifically, the project aims to focus on three primary objectives. They include: making direct connections between faculty needs and policies and practices at the institution; recruiting, retaining and promoting more women faculty in the STEM disciplines; and engaging faculty in a dialogical change process as a mechanism toward achieving institutional transformation. As a result of these measures, the institution expects to be able to achieve very impressive outcomes, including, but not limited to: development of a methodology for institutional transformation that can be applicable to all institution types, improvement of climate issues as identified in climate surveys and exit interviews, significant increases in the representation of women faculty in the STEM disciplines, particularly at higher professorial ranks.Intellectual Merit. There are several novel approaches presented in the proposal including: implementation of an endowed fund to support women in STEM; a week long boot camp for new faculty; search committee certification in objective evaluation, which offers a feasible plan for accountability; mini sabbaticals in year 3 of the tenure track to minimize an excessive teaching load burden experienced by most faculty at the institution; attrition planning training for chairs to ensure that progress continues in each department in the event the current chair is no longer in place. A major strength of the WVU ADVANCE IT project is its focus on dialogue exchange among faculty toward exchanging climate. This model is well documented in the social science component of the proposal, and has not been largely examined within the ADVANCE community. Broader Impact. The West Virginia ADVANCE IT project proposes to utilize mechanisms of achieving institutional transformation that are potentially adaptable to all institution types, including two-year institutions. To that end, this project has the potential to impact both typical and atypical ADVANCE institutions. Project accomplishments are expected to be broadly disseminated through traditional means that would include peer reviewed journal articles, national presentations and targeted outreach.