Mentoring Women Faculty in Computer Science and Engineering

指导计算机科学与工程领域的女教师

• 批准号: 1310792
• 负责人: Margaret Martonosi
• 金额: $ 54.89万
• 依托单位: Computing Research Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1310792&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mentoring; Women; Faculty; Computer; Science

The goal of CRA-W (Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) is to increase the number of women, including minority women, who participate and succeed in computer science research at every stage of the research pipeline. Achieving these objectives requires that an increasing number of women in academia start and progress to the next stage. Alas, the percentages of women in academic positions in PhD-granting Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) departments indicate that women continue to be severely underrepresented. The failure to capitalize on the creativity of female researchers represents a huge opportunity cost to the U.S. economy and national security to grow our nations leadership in technical innovation. CRA-W will (1) develop programs to increase the number and successful promotion of women CSE faculty to tenured and full professor and (2) conduct comparative evaluation of participants in our programs versus non-participants. Our programs apply the unifying framework of Social Cognitive Career Theory, which finds that interest in and choice of a particular career path will be increased by interventions that improve one or more of the following: (1) outcome expectations (understanding and valuing the rewards of a particular outcome), (2) self-efficacy (a belief that one can successfully achieve an outcome), and (3) social supports that help one persist and overcome obstacles. Our long-term group and individual mentoring programs aim to make participants aware of the rewards of an academic career; to help participants develop self-efficacy through increased knowledge, skills, and confidence; and to connect participants to the computing research and education communities and to each other to further their success. Participants and research mentors attend an initial group workshop, re-connect in small mentoring groups yearly, and meet every three to four months electronically. This ADVANCE PAID project seeks to improve equity in the discipline, through a coordinated suite of mentoring, role modeling, community building, and professional development workshops. The program adaptations are based on prior published research and our experiences and evaluation of programs in our portfolio. For example, the programs use results that show that individual faculty mentoring in other fields improve faculty success with respect to top venue publication, grant funding success, and promotion. In addition, the CRA Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) will provide the first ever, longitudinal and national study of the factors that lead to successful academic careers for faculty in computing. In particular, CERP will evaluate whether our CRA-W intervention programs are effective at increasing the participation and success of faculty women in computing. The evaluation efforts of CERP will yield a national faculty comparison database that will become a powerful national resource for the CSE community and for informing the wider research community on influencing success within academic careers.

CRA-W（计算机研究协会计算机研究中女性地位委员会）的目标是增加女性（包括少数族裔女性）的数量，她们参与计算机科学研究并在研究渠道的每个阶段取得成功。实现这些目标需要越来越多的女性进入学术界并进入下一阶段。遗憾的是，在授予博士学位的计算机科学与工程 (CSE) 系中担任学术职务的女性比例表明，女性的代表性仍然严重不足。未能充分利用女性研究人员的创造力，会给美国经济和国家安全带来巨大的机会成本，从而增强我们国家在技术创新方面的领导地位。 CRA-W 将 (1) 制定计划，增加女性 CSE 教员的数量并成功晋升为终身教授和正教授；(2) 对我们计划的参与者与非参与者进行比较评估。我们的计划应用社会认知职业理论的统一框架，该理论发现，通过改善以下一项或多项的干预措施，可以增加对特定职业道路的兴趣和选择：（1）结果期望（理解和重视职业的回报）一个特定的结果），（2）自我效能（一种能够成功实现某个结果的信念），以及（3）帮助一个人坚持并克服障碍的社会支持。我们的长期团体和个人辅导计划旨在让参与者意识到学术生涯的回报；帮助参与者通过增加知识、技能和信心来发展自我效能感；并将参与者与计算机研究和教育社区以及彼此之间联系起来，以进一步取得成功。参与者和研究导师参加最初的小组研讨会，每年在小型指导小组中重新联系，并每三到四个月进行一次电子会议。该高级付费项目旨在通过一系列协调一致的指导、角色示范、社区建设和专业发展研讨会来提高学科的公平性。该计划的调整基于之前发表的研究以及我们的经验和对我们投资组合中计划的评估。例如，这些项目使用的结果表明，其他领域的个别教师指导可以提高教师在顶级出版物、资助成功和晋升方面的成功。 此外，CRA 研究管道评估中心 (CERP) 将针对计算机领域教师成功学术生涯的因素提供首次纵向全国性研究。特别是，CERP 将评估我们的 CRA-W 干预计划是否能有效提高女性教师在计算机领域的参与和成功。 CERP 的评估工作将产生一个国家教师比较数据库，该数据库将成为 CSE 界的强大国家资源，并为更广泛的研究界提供影响学术职业成功的信息。