African American Female Engineering Faculty in the Academy: What Does it Take To Succeed? A Workshop of Senior Women in the Academy

本次研讨会的组织者将召开一个论坛，由在工程项目中拥有完整教授职级的有色人种女性以及来自多样性委员会、工程中的女性和美国工程教育协会(ASEE)少数族裔分部的同龄人组成。讲习班的目的是增进对循证战略的了解和理解，以增加非裔美国妇女在工程学院的入学、留住和晋升。提倡者以前所做工作的质量以及他们可获得的资源意味着，这项工作由一支对这一人群的挑战具有关键见解的高素质团队领导。提倡者拥有广泛传播成果的国家资源和关系，并有机会接触可实施这些战略的机构和组织。研讨会将产生促进非洲裔美国人和其他代表性不足的个人作为教员和领导人参与工程学的模式。这一论坛可能会产生协作和联盟，这将导致今后努力执行组织变革战略，以解决不平等问题。结果将被广泛传播，并将产生可行的建议，以加强传统上在工程学中任职人数较少的个人对工程学的参与。对社会的长期潜在好处包括增加工程方面的榜样和增加创新部门的多样性。

The organizers of this workshop will convene a forum of women of color who hold Full Professor rank in engineering programs as well as their peers from the Diversity Committee, Women in Engineering, and Minorities Divisions of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). The workshop is intended to advance knowledge and understanding of evidence-based strategies for increasing the entry, retention and advancement of African American women in the engineering academy. The quality of previous work done by the proposers as well as the resources available to them means leadership in this effort by a highly qualified team that has key insights into the challenges of this population. The proposers have national resources and relationships to broadly disseminate the outcomes as well as access to institutions and organizations where these strategies can be implemented. The workshop will result in models for enhancing the participation of African American and other underrepresented individuals in engineering as faculty and leaders. This forum is likely to produce collaborations and alliances that will result in future efforts for implementing organizational change strategies to address inequities. The results will be disseminated broadly and will result in actionable proposals to enhance the participation in engineering by individuals traditionally underrepresented in engineering. The longer term potential benefits to society include increasing role models in engineering and increasing the diversity in the innovation sector.