ADVANCE Institutional Transformation at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

ADVANCE方案的目的是通过重点查明和消除阻碍女性教员在学术机构充分参与和提升的组织障碍，促进性别平等。阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、实践、文化和组织氛围等领域。advanced institution Transformation （advanced - it）轨道支持高等教育机构内创新组织变革战略的发展，以增强科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中的性别平等。马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校（UML）将实施一套战略，旨在创造一个支持性别平等的学术环境，使所有教师都能发挥最大潜力。UML项目将专注于破坏人际关系和制度上的微侵犯（无意冒犯并且可能没有意识到造成伤害的个人对社会边缘群体的随意贬低），这些行为会削弱生产力和幸福感。该项目包括UML对微侵犯的三个相关研究，这些研究将增加关于微侵犯现象和有效干预的知识库，以减轻微侵犯的负面影响。根据UNL的说法，研究表明，微侵犯对经历过它们的个人有强大的、累积的负面影响，并影响他们获得支持和晋升的机会。UML的advanced - it程序将实现以下策略：(1)破坏微侵犯，(2)促进可选择的交互模式，以及(3)处理可能产生偏见的组织环境的目标方面。这些战略涉及从制度程序到人际交往的各种问题。活动包括信息运动和旁观者培训，以及全面的透明度和问责制倡议，以建立委员会决策，工作量分配，学院和部门层面的自我评估和行动计划的详细程序。研究还将进一步发展收集期刊数据的研究方法，用于这类性质的研究。

The ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of women faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in areas such as policy, practice, culture, and organizational climate. The ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE-IT) track supports the development of innovative organizational change strategies within an institution of higher education to enhance gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) will implement a set of strategies designed to create an academic environment that supports gender equity so all faculty can achieve their highest potential. The UML project will focus on disrupting interpersonal and institutional microaggressions (casual belittling of socially marginalized groups made by individuals that intend no offense and are likely unaware of causing harm) that undercut productivity and well-being. The project includes three related studies of microaggressions at UML that will add to the knowledge base on the phenomenon and effective interventions to mitigate the negative impacts of microaggressions. According to UNL, research suggests that microaggressions have a powerful, cumulative negative impact on individuals who experience them and impacts their access to support and advancement. The ADVANCE-IT program at UML will implement strategies to: (1) disrupt microaggressions, (2) promote alternative interactional patterns, and (3) address targeted aspects of the organizational context that can breed bias. These strategies address issues ranging from institutional procedures to interpersonal interactions. Activities include an information campaign and bystander training as well as comprehensive transparency and accountability initiatives to establish detailed procedures for committee decision making, workload distribution, and college and department-level self-assessment and action planning. The research studies will also further develop the research method of collecting journal data for studies of this nature.