The 2019 Big 10 Women's Workshop (BTWW): Closing the Mentoring Loop

先前的研究表明，建立专业技能和支持网络的女性工程教师，谁是在工程学院代表性不足，可以提高他们在学术界的保留。2019年十大女性研讨会为助理教授在其学术任命的前三年提供了学习专业技能的机会，这些技能对他们的终身职位和长期职业生涯的早期成功至关重要。此外，讲习班还为资深女教师的榜样提供了指导机会，沿着的是促进各机构研究合作的工具。参与者将获得有效的策略和多种途径，以便在学院中追求有价值和有影响力的职业。讲习班和后续活动将有助于雇用，保留和女教师的成功，同时也有助于增加女工程专业学生的人数。该项目的一个目标是在十大工程学院之间建立一个持续的社区建设和网络循环。为了做到这一点，讲习班包括2010年前的会议和促进社区建设的活动的参与者。 研讨会的与会者将返回他们的家乡机构与更广泛的专业网络，将支持他们的终身职位的成功追求。增加女性工程教师的保留将进一步提高国家的研究，教育和准备未来的工程劳动力的能力。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Prior research demonstrates that building professional skills and support networks of female engineering faculty, who are underrepresented in engineering colleges, can improve their retention in academia. The 2019 Big 10 Women's Workshop provides opportunities for assistant professors in their first three years of their academic appointment to learn professional skills critical to early success in their tenure track positions and long-term careers. Additionally, the workshop generates opportunities for mentorship by senior women faculty role models, along with a vehicle to foster research collaborations across institutions. Participants will be provided effective strategies and multiple pathways for pursuing rewarding and impactful careers in the academy. The workshop and follow-on activities will contribute to the hiring, retention, and success of women faculty, while also helping to increase the number of women engineering students. One goal of this project is to establish a continuous cycle of community building and networking across the Big 10 engineering colleges. In order to do this, the workshop includes participants from the prior 2010 conference and activities that foster community building. The workshop attendees will return to their home institutions with a broader professional network that will support their successful pursuit of tenure-track positions. Increased retention of female engineering faculty will additionally improve the nation's capacity for research, education, and preparation of the future engineering workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.