GSE/DIF Crafting Successful Living-Learning Programs for Women in STEM: Building Blocks for the Future

智力优势：该项目的主要目标是通过向面向STEM领域妇女的生活学习方案主任提供“全国生活学习方案研究”（HRD-GSE 0521762）中随时可以实施的调查结果和建议，促进本科妇女在STEM领域取得成功。具体而言，要公布的调查结果和建议侧重于L/L环境和实践，这些环境和实践有助于本科女性在STEM领域取得成功，这些环境和实践与她们向大学过渡有关;学术，专业和整体自信;感知的智力增长;归属感;保留STEM专业;以及大学毕业后的教育和职业计划。这项传播工作有两个组成部分：a）制定一个互动的实践导向手册，详细介绍了成功的L/L编程的妇女在STEM，分发给主任的L/L方案，直接迎合妇女在STEM专业，通过妇女专用格式（例如，WIMSE方案）或通过男女同校STEM为基础的格式，和B）与2009年生活学习方案会议一起为50 L/L方案主任举办讲习班。通过以实践为导向的手册和伴随的研讨会，该项目旨在为L/L教师和工作人员提供基于NSLLP调查结果的建议，以创建，实施和不断改进L/L实践。通过将研讨会参与者相互介绍，这种传播工作还将通过在L/L创建STEM联盟中的妇女网络，留下质量改进的遗产。更广泛的影响：拟议的手册和讲习班宣传了NSLLP的调查结果，有能力改变妇女在STEM领域的本科教育经历。因此，这个传播项目代表了严格的研究结果的传播与高影响力，具有成本效益的干预和推广的最佳结合，以增加STEM中妇女的性别平等。重要的是，以实践为导向的手册和研讨会的孪生项目有可能接触到广泛的受众-也许是WISE L/L董事的全部人口-并创建一个专业人士网络，其遗产将是改善女性在STEM的本科经历。

Intellectual Merit: The primary goal of this project is to promote the success of undergraduate women in STEM by making available ready-to-implement findings and recommendations from The National Study of Living Learning Programs (NSLLP) (HRD-GSE 0521762) to directors of living-learning (L/L) programs catering to women in STEM fields. Specifically, the findings and recommendations to be publicized focus on the L/L environments and practices that facilitate the success of undergraduate women in STEM in relation to their transition to college; academic, professional, and overall self-confidence; perceived intellectual growth; sense of belonging; retention in STEM majors; and educational and career plans after college graduation. This diffusion effort has two components: a) the development of an interactive practice-oriented manual detailing successful L/L programming for women in STEM, distributed to directors of L/L programs that cater directly to women in STEM majors either through a women-only format (e.g., WIMSE programs) or through a co-educational STEM-based format, and b) a workshop for 50 L/L program directors taking place in conjunction with the 2009 Living-Learning Programs Conference. Through the practice-oriented manual and accompanying workshop, the project aims to provide L/L faculty and staff with recommendations based on findings from the NSLLP for creating, implementing, and continuously improving L/L practice. By introducing the workshop participants to one another, this diffusion effort will also leave a legacy of quality improvement by creating a network of women in STEM allies in L/L. Broader Impacts: The proposed manual and workshop publicizing the findings of the NSLLP have the power to transform the undergraduate educational experience of women in STEM. This diffusion project thus represents the optimal marriage of the communication of rigorous research results with a high-impact, cost-efficient intervention and outreach for increasing gender equity for women in STEM. Importantly, the twin projects of the practice-oriented manual and workshop have the potential to reach a broad audience--perhaps the entire population of WISE L/L directors--and create a network of professionals whose legacy will be the improvement of the undergraduate experience for women in STEM.