APLU NSF INCLUDES: A Collective Impact Approach to Broadening Participation in the STEM Professoriate

公立和赠地大学协会（APLU）将领导这项设计和开发启动试点，开展旨在增加APLU成员大学中来自代表性不足和传统上服务不足群体的STEM教师数量的活动：妇女、历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）、残疾人（PWD）和社会经济背景较低的人。该项目是为了响应工程和科学领域中代表性不足的发现者学习者（NSF INCLUDES）项目征集（NSF 16-544）而创建的。INCLUDES项目是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点关注NSF在这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。INCLUDES设计和开发启动试点项目代表了解决STEM领域日益扩大的参与挑战的大胆、创新的方式。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与，对于科学和工程的进步、国家安全、健康和繁荣至关重要。我们的国家正在推进知识和实践，以解决STEM成就和高等教育STEM学生之间的毕业差距，这些学生是女性，URM， PWD，低社会经济背景的人，男性，非URM，非PWD，以及来自中高社会经济背景的人。与此同时，美国的大学和学院也在努力招募、保留和提升多元化的STEM教师，作为历史上代表性不足和传统上得不到充分服务的学生的榜样和学术领袖，向他们学习、合作和效仿。美国国家科学基金会最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM副教授和正教授占高级教师职位的8%，在美国最具研究密集型的机构中，这一比例约为6%。APLU包括：扩大STEM教授参与的集体影响方法有可能推动一个全国性的组织网络，以提高女性、URM、残疾人和社会经济背景较低的人在STEM教师职位上的代表性，最终为全国高等教育机构的STEM本科生和研究生提供URM STEM榜样。APLU将与多个组织密切合作，以实现关键目标，包括美国科学促进会、研究、教学和学习整合中心、高等教育学术职业合作组织、机构合作委员会（最近更名为十大学术联盟）、研究生院理事会、佛罗里达教育基金的麦克奈特博士奖学金计划、南方地区教育委员会州立博士学者项目和加州大学校长办公室。该网络计划将APLU成员机构和专家联系起来，以(1)开发和测试一套用于招聘、雇用、保留和支持教师的诊断工具和实践，(2)确定一套机构活动，以增加STEM教授途径的参与，让一组机构共同实施一项或多项活动。(3)评估现有数据来源和指标的充分性和覆盖范围，这些数据来源和指标可用于跟踪从进入高等教育到教授的学生。

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to conduct activities aimed to increase the number of STEM faculty at APLU member universities from underrepresented and traditionally underserved groups: Women, historically underrepresented minorities (URM), persons with disabilities (PWD), and people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address a STEM achievement and the graduation gap between postsecondary STEM students who are women, URM, PWD, and persons from low socioeconomic backgrounds and males, non-URM, non-PWD, and persons from middle and upper socioeconomic backgrounds. At the same time U.S. universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote a diverse STEM faculty as role models and academic leaders for historically underrepresented and traditionally underserved students to learn from, to work with and to emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of the senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The APLU INCLUDES: A Collective Impact Approach to Broadening Participation in the STEM Professoriate has the potential to advance a national network of organizations to improve the representation of women, URMs, PWDs and persons from low socioeconomic backgrounds in STEM faculty positions, eventually providing URM STEM role models to STEM undergraduate and graduate students at postsecondary academic institutions across the Nation.APLU will work closely with multiple organizations to address key objectives, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (recently renamed the Big Ten Academic Alliance), the Council of Graduate Schools, the Florida Education Fund's McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program, Southern Regional Education Board State Doctoral Scholars Program and the University of California's Office of the President. Together this network plans to connect APLU member institutions and experts to (1) develop and test a set of diagnostic tools and practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining and supporting faculty, to (2) identify a set of institutional activities to increase participation along STEM pathways toward the professoriate, to engage a group of institutions to collectively implement one or more of the activities, and to (3) evaluate the adequacy and coverage current data sources and metrics available to track students from entry into postsecondary education through the professoriate.