Institutional Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N)

该计划-IHE资助轨道的目的是扩大应用证明成功的性别平等倡议的STEM教师通过网络适应一个特定的程序或倡议。 仔细的评价预计将扩大对这些举措的了解 “培养卓越学术领导能力的机构-国家”项目将在俄亥俄州和宾夕法尼亚州的10所研究型大学中建立一个学习社区，以促进科学工程学科中的两性平等。 这10所合作大学包括凯斯西储大学（CWRU）、鲍林绿色州立大学、克利夫兰州立大学、肯特州立大学、阿克伦大学和托莱多大学以及卡内基梅隆大学、迪克讷大学、印第安纳州宾夕法尼亚大学和匹兹堡大学。 IDEAL-N将建立在早期CWRU ADVANCE项目IDEAL的成功转型和成果的基础上。 IDEAL-N由四个要素组成：领导力增强培训、年度变革项目、全体会议和制定公平指数。 这种机构学习共同体的创建不仅有利于各个大学的实践和政策，而且还将为国家培养科学技术职业，刺激和重新引导经济发展，扭转学术S E人才流失的努力提供信息。 IDEAL-N将高级管理人员作为变革的中心，并提供强化的教育，领导力发展和支持组件。 该项目将采用一个创新的技术平台，利用思科的网真，为全国受众重新设想和刺激具有成本效益的信息传播和联网。 该项目将在每所大学确定多层次的变革实施团队，以领导机构转型，其中包括：一名联合主任，一名变革领导者和一名社会科学教员。 共同主任将是教务长办公室一级的高级行政人员。 变革领导者将是一个系主任或高级教师领导在一个S E部门。 包括一名社会科学家，以帮助将社会科学理论和关于性别平等的有希望的实践文献转化为S E学科内的可行项目。 将在三年内在每个机构实施围绕一个关键的机构转型主题的年度变革项目。 每个变革实施小组将选择一个转型主题/问题/需要相关的校园，以提高性别平等在一个S E部门。 变革项目的复杂性和范围各不相同，但它们将直接涉及选定的IDEAL-N部门内的变革主题，并直接或间接涉及更大的机构。 在前一个IDEAL项目的另一个极为成功的要素的基础上，将在IDEAL-N每年的初夏举行三次全体会议。 这些会议将利用网真平台，将伙伴机构的高级学术领导人、变革实施小组成员以及学术领导和性别平等方面的国家专家聚集在一起，交流知识，设计实现变革的解决方案。 根据以往“促进性别平等”项目的研究和经验，以及关于促进学术生涯中的性别平等的文献，国际教育发展研究所-N将制定一个创新的性别平等指数，作为学术机构的评估和基准工具。 该指数的标准将包括促进性别多样性、公平和包容的最佳做法，特别关注残疾人和代表性不足的种族和少数民族女教师。计划轨道支持那些促进在新的环境中适应和实施以前有效的先进计划的项目，以及测试创新战略以促进参与，成功，和妇女在干学术生涯的进步。 两性平等研究所的项目也有助于建立学术生涯中两性平等的知识库。

The PLAN-IHE funding track is designed to expand the application of proven-successful gender-equity initiatives for STEM faculty through networked adaptation of a specific program or initiative. Careful evaluation is expected to expand understanding of such initiatives across institutions and institution types.The Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N) project will build a learning community among 10 research universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania to promote gender equality in academic Science & Engineering (S&E) disciplines. The 10 partner universities include Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Bowling Green State University, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, University of Akron and University of Toledo and Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh. IDEAL-N will build on the successful transformations and outcomes achieved in the earlier CWRU ADVANCE project, IDEAL. IDEAL-N is comprised of four elements: leadership enhancement training, annual change projects, plenary conferences, and development of an equity index. The creation of this institutional learning community will benefit not only the practices and policies of the individual universities, but will also inform the nation's efforts to foster science and technology careers, stimulate and redirect economic development, and reverse the drain of talent from academic S&E. IDEAL-N targets senior administrators as the locus of change and provides intensified educational, leadership development, and support components. The project will employ an innovative technology platform, using Cisco's TelePresence, to re-imagine and stimulate cost-effective information dissemination and networking for a national audience. The project will identify multilevel Change Implementation Teams at each university to lead institutional transformation that include: a co-director, a change leader, and a social science faculty member. The co-director will be a senior administrator at the Provost's Office level. The change leader will be a department chair or senior faculty leader in an S&E department. A social scientist is included to help translate social science theory and the promising practice literature on gender equity into actionable projects within S&E disciplines. Annual change projects focused around a key institutional transformation theme will be implemented at each institution over three years. Each Change Implementation Team will select a transformational theme/issue/need relevant to their campus to improve gender equity in a S&E department. The change projects will vary in complexity and scope, but they will directly address the transformational theme within the IDEAL-N departments selected, and directly or indirectly address the larger institution. Building on another extremely successful element of the previous IDEAL project, three plenary conferences will be held during the early summer of each year of IDEAL-N. These conferences will use the TelePresence platform to gather senior academic leaders from the partner institutions, Change Implementation Team members, and national experts on academic leadership and gender equity to exchange knowledge and design solutions to effect change. Based on the research and experience of previous ADVANCE projects, as well as from the literature on promoting gender equity in academic careers, IDEAL-N will develop an innovative Gender Equity Index to serve as an assessment and benchmarking tool for academic institutions. The criteria for this index will include best practices to promote gender diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a special focus on disabled and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority women faculty.The NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Learning and Adaptation Networks (PLAN) program track supports projects that promote the adaptation and implementation of previously effective ADVANCE programs in new contexts and the testing of innovative strategies to promote the participation, success, and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. PLAN projects also contribute to the knowledge base on gender equity in academic careers.