The assessing women in engineering project : a model for sustainable and profitable collaboration
Autor/in:
Marra, Rose M.; Bogue, Barbara
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 3, S. 283-296
Inhalt: "Women in engineering (WIE) programs work to recruit and retain women in undergraduate engineering programs and are a crucial part of the nation's effort to attract more women into engineering professions. For WIE programs to be maximally effective, they must have access to validated assessment instruments for measuring the effectiveness of their recruitment and retention activities. The Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, aims to develop such instruments. This article describes the AWE project's unique collaboration between a WIE director and an assessment professional to develop exportable assessment instruments and models for WIE programs nationwide, thus allowing them to assess their programs' activities and ultimately provide data for making well-informed evaluation decisions." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Fördermaßnahmen, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
A history of funding for women's programs at the national science foundation : from individual POWRE approaches to the advance of institutional approaches
Autor/in:
Rosser, Sue V.; O'Neil Lane, Eliesh
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 8 (2002) No. 3-4, S. 327-346
Inhalt: "The biennial reports on women, minorities, and persons with disabilities produced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) because of congressional mandate laid the statistical foundation for NSF initiatives to redress the underrepresentation of these groups. Programs established in the 1980s such as Research Opportunities for Women, Visiting Professorships for Women, Graduate Fellowships for Women, and Career Advancement Awards provided support to individual women for their research. In the 1990s, the NSF also began to focus on systemic initiatives, creating the Program for Women and Girls, although it continued to address the problem through support of individual researchers in the newly created Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE) initiative. The responses from more than 400 awardees during the 4 years of POWRE provide insights into the current issues these women perceive surrounding their grants, funding, and interactions with NSF bureaucracy and staff members. The results of the POWRE survey support the institutional, systemic thrust of the NSF's new ADVANCE initiative to attempt to solve problems such as balancing career and family that cannot be addressed solely by supporting research projects of individual female scientists and engineers." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Fördermaßnahmen, Studium und Studierende
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Das Frauenförderungsprogramm des American Council on Education für Frauen in Führungspositionen im Hochschulwesen
Titelübersetzung:The women's promotion program of the American Council on Education for women in management positions in the university system
Autor/in:
Kriszio, Marianne
Quelle: Frauenforschung : Informationsdienst des Forschungsinstituts Frau und Gesellschaft, Jg. 9 (1991) H. 4, S. 70-75
Inhalt: Die Verfasserin skizziert einleitend die Struktur des amerikanischen Hochschulwesens. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Strategien und institutionelle Verankerungen der Förderung von Frauen im Hochschulwesen skizziert. Die Verfasserin gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Frauenförderungspolitik in diesem Bereich seit 1972 und weist auf die besondere Bedeutung hin, die das National Identification Program for the Advancement of Women in Higher Education Administration des American Council of Education in diesem Zusammenhang hat. Zentrale Fördermechanismen und organisatorische Strukturen dieses Programms auf Bundes- und Bundesstaatenebene werden dargestellt. (ICE)