Navigating the Legal and Higher Education Landscapes to Foster and Sustain

AAAS将进行一个为期一年的项目，该项目建立在五年多工作的基础上，探索联邦和州法律和政策如何影响旨在支持大学校园中代表不足的教职员工和学生的项目的运作。智力上的功绩。在开展了确定有价值和可在法律上辩护的举措的工作之后，使这一指导意见适用于更广泛的机构和可能以不同方式适用法律先例的情况，还有其他内在的知识价值。AAAS将通过与五个支持高等教育组织的伙伴关系举办两个研讨会，接触到高等教育的各个部分。这些技术援助研讨会将为总法律顾问、学术领袖和项目管理人员将联邦法律与机构实践联系起来。该项目的重点是如何通过增加弱势群体和代表不足的群体对STEM教育和职业的参与来加强美国STEM劳动力队伍。不同的法律适用于教师的寻找、招聘和晋升(在工作场所)，以及学生的接触、支持和成功。该项目解决了这两个问题，并提供了以研究和评估为基础的方案和实践的真实例子。还将编写关于社区学院的补充材料，以及在该项目前一阶段创建的深入法律分析和方案指南。NSF表演者社区，以及更广泛的高等教育机构，是这些媒体的目标受众。

AAAS will conduct a one-year project that builds on over five years of work exploring how federal and state law and policy impact the operation of programs designed to support underrepresented faculty and students on university campuses. Intellectual Merit. Having undertaken the work of identifying worthy and legally defensible initiatives, there is additional intrinsic intellectual merit in making this guidance relevant to a broader array of institutions and situations where legal precedent may apply differently. AAAS will reach various segments of higher education through two workshops?in partnership with five endorsing higher education organizations. These technical assistance workshops will bridge federal law to institutional practice for general counsels, academic leaders, and program administrators.Broader Impacts. The project focus is how to strengthen the U.S. STEM work force by increasing participation by disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in STEM education and careers. Different bodies of law apply to faculty search, hiring, and advancement (in the workplace) and to student access, support, and success. The project addresses both, with real examples of programs and practices that are research and evaluation-based. Supplementary materials on, e.g., community colleges plus in-depth legal analysis and program guidelines created in the previous phase of the project, will also be produced. The NSF performer community, and higher education institutions more generally, are the targeted audience for these media.