CNS Core: EAGER: Building Leadership Capacity and Support for Women of Color Faculty

工程学对一个国家的健康和活力的影响与其他任何职业都不同，工程学的未来与扩大社会最高阶层中代表性不足的群体的参与密不可分。该项目提供并促进了高等教育中最未被充分代表的教师和管理人员的领导力发展，有色人种女性（黑人或非裔美国人，西班牙裔或拉丁裔美国人，美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民）。大约有50名中高级、有色人种、计算机和工程学院的女性被确定参与这个项目。该项目将在两年内分三个阶段进行。该项目的第一阶段重点是通过一系列领导力发展评估，帮助有色人种、计算机和工程学院的女性了解她们作为潜在领导者的身份。第二阶段让这些女性与资深同事和认证引导者一起学习领导力战略和工具；协助参与者解释个人评估的结果；制定个人领导力发展计划；促进有关领导及管理的个案研究的讨论；并描述种族和性别对女性在领导职位和组织发展中的作用。第三阶段，在历史上代表性不足、经常被忽视的计算机和工程教授群体中建立战略联盟，鼓励和支持他们晋升为STEM领导职位。本项目完成后，将会有一批有色人种女性领导干部准备好进入学术领导职位（如系主任/系主任、院长、教务长、校长）或高级研究/技术领导职位（如研究所或研究中心主任）。此外，该项目还将建立一个由有色人种的中高级女性组成的网络，她们可以在进入高等教育行政部门的过程中相互支持。这项工作，以及类似的后续项目，对于增加女性领导者的比例并使她们走向成功至关重要。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Engineering affects the health and vitality of a nation unlike any other profession, and the future of engineering is inextricably connected to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups at the highest levels of society. This project provides and promotes leadership development amongst the most underrepresented population of faculty and administrators in higher education, Women of Color (blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and American Indians or Alaska Natives). Approximately 50 mid- to senior- level, women of color, computing and engineering faculty have been identified to participate in this project. The project will occur in three phases in each of the two years. The first phase of this project focuses on helping women of color, computing and engineering faculty understand who they are as potential leaders, via a set of leadership development assessments. The second phase brings these women together with senior colleagues and certified facilitators to learn about leadership strategies and tools; to assist participants in interpreting the results of their individual assessments; to develop a personal, leadership development plan; to facilitate discussion on case studies related to leadership and management; and to describe the role race and gender play for women in leadership positions and organizational advancement. The third phase builds a strategic alliance across a subset of historically underrepresented and often overlooked members of the computing and engineering professoriate to encourage and support their advancement into STEM leadership positions. Upon completion of this project there will be a cadre of women of color leaders equipped and prepared to step into academic leadership positions (i.e. Department Chair/Head, Dean, Provost, President) or a senior research/technical leadership role (i.e. Director of an Institute or Research Center). Additionally, the project will have created a network of mid- and- senior women of color who can provide support to one another as they advance through higher education’s administrative ranks. This work, and subsequent projects modeled like it, are critically important to increasing the proportion of leaders who are women and positioning them for success.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.