Women ADVANCE at USM Initiative

南缅因州大学是该州唯一的地区性综合性大学，位于该州最多元化的地区。南缅因州先进信息技术催化剂项目致力于创造一种文化和环境，以实现和维持反映其所服务社区的多样化教师群体，该项目将侧重于对影响STEM学科招聘、留住和提升女性的系统性制度因素进行全面的定量和定性评估。主要活动包括但不限于：收集和分析基线数据，收集和审查关于最佳做法和经验教训的信息，并制定一个以数据为导向、以证据为基础的机构转型准备计划，以支持女教员。该项目的成果预计将产生持续的变革，这将对可作为非传统学生和女学生，特别是女退伍军人日益增长的人口的榜样的女教职员工的数量产生积极影响，并为该机构提供必要的平台，为具有一些相同独特特点的其他综合性大学树立榜样。

The University of Southern Maine is the only regional comprehensive university in the state, and situated in the most diverse region of the state. As a result of its commitment to creating a culture and environment for attaining and sustaining a diverse faculty population that reflects the community it serves, the Southern Maine ADVANCE IT Catalyst project will focus on a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of systemic institutional factors affecting recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the STEM disciplines. Major activities include, but are not limited to: collecting and analyzing baseline data, collecting and reviewing information about best practices and lessons learned and developing a data-driven, evidence-based institutional transformational readiness plan to support women faculty. Results from this project are expected to yield sustained transformation that will positively impact the number of women faculty who could serve as role models to a growing population of non-traditional and female students, especially women veterans, and provide the institution with the necessary platform to serve as a model for other comprehensive universities that share some of the same unique characteristics.