Setting goals to advance society and enhance opportunities for 50% of our citizens (more than half of students in US colleges and universities are women) is laudable.  But setting goals that are "pie in the sky" usually leads to failure and concomitant cynicism.  Better to take a hard look at what others have accomplished, and how they did it.  Perhaps the dean can confer with Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College, who has had great success in attracting women to STEM disciplines.  For those of you who don't know, HMC is ranked #2 in the nation for undergraduate engineering by US News.