NSF ADVANCE Program at Wesleyan Univeristy - GAIN
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Professional Development 11-Professional Development |
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Community-based Service Learning Earth Sciences |
| Special Topic(s): |
ADVANCE - NSF Programs |
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Community - General |
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| Author(s): |
Mary Anne Holmes Suzanne O’Connell |
| Description: | Type: Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination; Year Awarded: 2007. Description: This award for Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination supports the following objectives: Build a community of northeast U.S. geoscience women by implementing: 1. Professional development workshops and writing retreats to provide faculty with key skills to reach their full potential as academic and scientific leaders, 2. Workshops with geoscience department chairs to help develop effective strategies for recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and for enhancing departmental climate and excellence. 3. Maintenance of a database of academic geoscientists. With this award, support is provided to develop a network of women geoscientists through community-based professional development workshops and writing retreats. In addition, the award supports development of workshops for geosciences chairs, who are key leaders in enhancing departmental climate. Workshops will focus on approaches to departmental assessment and strategy development to increase department diversity, providing a productive environment for all faculty. Intellectual merit arises from the application of promising ADVANCE Institutional Transformation practices to a unified set of disciplines across multiple types of institutions. The project seeks to determine practices that are most effective at different types of schools and can be used by departments with minimal institutional support. These results will serve as a model for other regions and other STEM fields. Broader impacts include engaging faculty in defining and disseminating strategies to broaden participation in the geosciences community. |
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ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Portal |
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The vision is to increase the retention of women in the academic pipeline and to create women geoscientist leaders by building a supportive geoscience community for women in the northeastern U.S. This can serve as a model for other regions and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. We plan to create this community through shared experiences that will empower women with the skills needed to thrive in academia and educating department chairs about ways to effectively create a welcome, supportive and productive environment. |
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Medium |
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Low |
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| Publication Date: | July 2009 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.geosciences.unl.edu/~mholmes/GAIN/ |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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