ADVANCE Adaptation: Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring (TEAM)

NSF ADVANCE项目旨在通过识别和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教师充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、过程、实践以及组织文化和气候中。ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术和非学术非营利组织的适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持。北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC）的ADVANCE适应项目被称为“获得指导的目标公平”（TEAM）。该项目将促进一种有效和公平的指导项目文化。团队的组成部分包括：动员教务长的领导，对院长和系主任的培训和支持，对教师导师的培训，以及其他项目，包括对学员的同伴指导。该项目的目标包括：1)建立一个高级教师管理职位，以确保整个大学的指导实施和责任一致；2)授权院长、主席和其他高级领导在其部门建立师徒计划；3)通过提供教育和策略，增加和提高高级教师的指导能力；4)为初级和中期职业教师提供基于群体的指导。TEAM借鉴了国家教师发展与多样性中心（NCFDD）和国家指导研究网络（NMRN）以及俄勒冈州立大学和克莱姆森大学的advance项目的工作，提供了三个关键的干预措施，将推进当前的指导实践。北卡罗来纳大学项目将：1)将交叉性信息材料整合到NMRN课程中，以解决STEM领域女性教师的独特需求；2)用同伴网络补充正式的、二元的师徒关系；3)将女性教师在STEM领域的生活经历和整体福祉作为教师成功的关键、可衡量的结果。预计北卡罗来纳大学适应项目将增加教师指导的知识库，特别是针对在STEM领域具有交叉身份的个人的指导。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF 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 diverse faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate. ADVANCE "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic and non-academic non-profit organizations.The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) ADVANCE Adaptation project is called the Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring (TEAM). The project will promote a culture of effective and equitable mentoring programs. TEAM components include: mobilizing leadership by the Provost, training and support for deans and department chairs, training for faculty mentors, and additional programming including peer mentoring for mentees. Objectives for the project include: 1) Establish a senior-level faculty administrative position to ensure consistent mentoring implementation and accountability across the University; 2) Empower deans, chairs, and other senior leadership to establish mentoring programs in their departments; 3) Increase and improve senior faculty members' mentoring capacity by providing education and strategies; and 4) Provide cohort-based mentoring to junior and mid-career faculty.TEAM offers three key interventions that will advance current mentoring practices, drawing on work by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) and the National Mentoring Research Network (NMRN) as well as ADVANCE projects at Oregon State University and Clemson University. The UNC project will: 1) Integrate intersectionality-informed materials into the NMRN curriculum to address the unique needs of women faculty in STEM fields; 2) Supplement formal, dyadic mentoring relationships with peer networks; and 3) Include the lived experiences and holistic well-being of women faculty in STEM fields as critical, measurable outcomes for faculty success. It is anticipated that the UNC Adaptation project will add to the knowledge base on faculty mentoring particularly mentoring targeting individuals with intersectional identities in the STEM fields.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.