MPWR: Mentoring and Partnerships for Women in RUME

该项目旨在支持本科数学教育研究中的妇女伙伴关系，并在本科数学教育研究的所有职业阶段为妇女创建一个可持续的支持系统。根据国家报告和研究结果所述的需要，该项目将启动面对面的指导和伙伴关系制度，目标是让女研究人员参与本科数学教育。该项目将成为一个信息交流中心，为已确立地位的妇女提供机会，指导该领域的新来者，并在所有职业阶段的本科数学教育女研究人员之间建立伙伴关系。 该项目的目标是为本科数学教育研究界的女性提供一个讨论她们特有问题的环境;并非正式地为女性提供或让她们接触研究生和教师（包括初级和高级）之间的指导和合作机会。研究社区。该项目将以一个研讨会启动这一进程，该研讨会将与年度RUME会议同时举行。 该项目将有60名参与者，他们将在全国RUME会议开始前一天到达。这将使MPWR研讨会有一整天的会议，然后是三天的非正式接触。 妇女事务部研讨会的结构是小组讨论，然后是有组织的分组讨论。小组讨论将针对各种感兴趣的主题，如工作与生活的平衡和攀登学术阶梯。特邀小组讨论，从内部和外部的RUME社区选择，是代表在职业生涯的各个阶段，职业道路的类型，机构类型和生活方式选择的妇女。每次小组讨论之后，将举行有组织的分组讨论。 在RUME会议之后，参与者将提交正式的指导和伙伴关系网络的请求，该网络由一名高级教师，两名初级教师和三名研究生组成。该项目与国家努力支持STEM学科中的女性和少数民族的职业生涯相一致。它采纳了以促进个人、面对面辅导和伙伴关系机会的形式提供这种支持的具体建议。通过支持妇女接受本科数学教育，该项目力求增加从事本科数学教育研究并将担任学术职务的研究生人数，并提高已担任学术职务的女性初级和高级教师的生产力。 MPWR研讨会将进一步扩大妇女在更广泛的学科为基础的教育研究（DBER）社区内进行本科数学教育研究的作用。

This project is to support Partnerships for Women in RUME (Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education) and create a sustainable support system for women at all career stages in undergraduate mathematics education research. Stemming from the need articulated in national reports and research findings, the project will initiate face-to-face mentoring and partnership system that targets participation amongst women researchers within undergraduate mathematics education. The project will be a clearinghouse for opportunities for established women to mentor newcomers into the field, and to build partnerships among women researchers of undergraduate mathematics education at all career stages. The project goals are to provide an environment for women in the undergraduate mathematics education research community to discuss issues specific to them; and informally provide or expose women to mentorship and partnership opportunities among graduate students and faculty, both junior and senior, within the research community. The project will initiate the process with a seminar which will occur in conjunction with the annual RUME conference. The project will have sixty participants, who will arrive one day prior to the start of the National RUME conference. This will allow one full day of meetings for the MPWR seminar, followed by three days of informal contact. The structure of the MPWR seminar is panel discussions followed by organized break-out groups. The panel discussions will target various topics of interest, such as the work-life balance and climbing the academic ladder. Invited panel discussants, chosen from within and beyond the RUME community, are women that represent various stages in career, type of career path, institution type, and lifestyle choices. Each panel discussion will be followed by organized breakout group discussions about the panel topic. Following the RUME conference, participants will submit requests for formalized mentoring and partnership networks composed of one senior faculty, two junior faculty, and three graduate students.The project aligns with the national effort to support the careers of women and minorities within the STEM disciplines. It takes up specific recommendations for this support in the form of fostering personal, face-to-face mentoring and partnership opportunities. By supporting women in undergraduate mathematics education, the project seeks to increase the number of graduate students pursuing undergraduate mathematics education research who will go onto academic positions, as well as increase the productivity of female junior and senior faculty who already hold academic positions. The MPWR seminar will further expand the role of women pursuing research in undergraduate mathematics education within in the broader Discipline Based Education Research (DBER) community.