ADVANCE Institutional Transformation at Florida International University

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。佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）是美国第四大公立大学，也是佛罗里达州第二大公立大学，拥有超过54,000名学生，其中80%以上来自代表性不足的群体。FIU的这个ADVANCE-IT项目的目标是发展制度结构、流程和氛围，以建立一个肯定和公平的工作场所。该项目有四个目标：(1)解决阻碍女性STEM教师（特别是有色人种女性）招聘、保留和晋升的问题，以更好地反映财经大学学生群体的人口结构；(2)对教师进行偏见和“微气候”（对教师工作经验产生积极或消极影响的当地社会气候）的教育；(3)制定策略和工具，帮助教师将洞察力转化为促进性别平等的行动；(4)发展由佛罗里达大都市研究型大学（佛罗里达国际大学、中佛罗里达大学和南佛罗里达大学）组成的先进佛罗里达网络。FIU项目包括两项社会科学研究，这将增加我们对STEM学术公平和促进公平战略的认识。第一项研究将增加我们对“微气候”的理解，以及大多数教员在设置一个系的气候方面所起的作用。第二项研究将调查深层改变项目干预对参与者行为的长期影响，包括对不平等的培训和使用干预策略。

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.Florida International University (FIU) is the 4th largest public university in the U.S. and the 2nd largest in Florida, with over 54,000 students with over 80% from underrepresented groups. FIU's goal for this ADVANCE-IT project is to develop institutional structures, processes, and climate that builds an affirming and fair workplace. There are four objectives within this project: (1) Address issues that impede the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women STEM faculty, particularly women of color, to better reflect the demographics of the FIU student body; (2) Educate faculty about biases and "microclimates" (the local social climates that positively or negatively impact the work experience of faculty within the institution); (3) Develop strategies and tools to help move faculty from insight to action to promote gender equity; (4) Develop the Advance Florida Network comprised of the Florida metropolitan research universities (FIU, University of Central Florida, and University of South Florida). The FIU project includes two social science research studies that will add to our knowledge of equity in STEM academics and strategies to foster equity. The first study will increase our understanding of "microclimates" and the role of the majority faculty in setting the climate of a department. The second study will investigate the long-term impact on the behavior of participants in the Deep Change Program intervention which includes training on inequity and using strategies to intervene.