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Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Andrea E. Surovek, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Andrea Lyn Liebl, University of South Dakota; Alyssa M. Kiesow, Northern State University; Mary Emery; Pam F. Rowland; Cynthia Anderson

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

in STEM has been largely unmet across state institutions.One element of change has proven the most recalcitrant across past programs: the urgent need toeffectively and demonstrably change the institutional academic climate for women in the STEMsciences [1], [2]. One reason for the lack of long-term success in sustained institutional changefor gender equity is due to the fact that, “Gender equity should be seen as a systemic rather thanan individual issue” [3]. In order to address equity in higher education across a state system, wehave employed a “top-down” approach that goes beyond individual institutional administrationand starts at the state level. We use the “top-down” terminology to indicate that, although thisproposed work builds

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Xiangyu Zhou, Zhejiang University; Lina Wei, Zhejiang University; Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University

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Engineering and Public Policy

science andtechnology innovation in Chinese universities, obtain the necessary conditionalvariables and allocation factors, and provide policy Suggestions for thedevelopment of higher education and scientific research in China in the new erathrough empirical research. Therefore, the research question of this paper is: （1）what are the comprehensive factors that affect the performance of scientific andtechnological innovation in universities? （ 2 ） From the perspective of policyformulation, how should universities improve the performance of scientific andtechnological innovation?Firstly, on the basis of literature research, condition variables are listed asreferences. Secondly, resource dependence theory is used to establish a model, anddescriptive