FAMU ADVANCE IT: Using Cultural Humility to Balance the Institutional and Intersectional Barriers to Equity for STEM Faculty

高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和发展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、实践、文化和组织氛围等领域。高级机构变革(Advance-IT)路径支持在高等教育机构内制定创新的组织变革战略，以增强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学术力量中的性别公平。佛罗里达农业与机械大学(FAMU)是美国历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)之一，致力于改变其制度环境和文化，以支持STEM中的性别平等和女性教师的进步。FAMU Advance-IT项目将通过努力提高人们对文化谦逊在决策中的作用的认识，并通过实施各种先进倡议，包括政策审查和变化，以及侧重于在STEM坚持和留住女性教员的支持计划，如专业发展、职业指导和指导，来促进性别平等。这个项目对于了解如何增加HBCU STEM教员的多样性很重要，HBCU的教员并不总是反映HBCU的学生群体多样性。本项目将通过在预先干预和拟议的研究中注入文化谦逊的概念，扩大HBCU关于提高HBCU女性STEM教员的障碍和战略的有限研究。在这项提议的背景下，文化谦逊是一种意识，即没有性别/学科/种族/宗教是常态，每个人都属于FAMU的学术环境。在HBCU对黑人女性和其他有色人种女性进行的STEM考试将扩展交叉性的研究，在黑人女性学生占多数，但黑人女性STEM教师占少数的背景下审查这一现象。此外，研究有色人种女性在群体内的差异将提供对HBCU性别问题复杂性的更深层次的跨部门理解，同时还将推动对挑战和成功因素的更细微差别的框架。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 diverse 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) academic workforce.Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is one of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and is committed to transforming its institutional climate and culture in support of gender equity and advancement of women faculty in STEM. The FAMU ADVANCE-IT project will promote gender equity by working to increase awareness of the role of cultural humility in decision-making and by implementing various ADVANCE initiatives including policy review and changes and support programs focused on the persistence and retention of women faculty in STEM such as professional development, career coaching, and mentoring. This project is important to understand how to increase the diversity of STEM faculty at HBCUs, the faculty at HBCUS does not always reflect the student population diversity at HBCUs.This project will expand the limited research on barriers to and strategies for advancement of women STEM faculty at HBCUs by infusing the concept of cultural humility in the ADVANCE interventions and in the proposed research. In the context of this proposal, cultural humility is the awareness that no gender/discipline/race/religion is the norm and that everyone belongs in FAMU's academic setting. The examination of Black women and other women of color in STEM at a large HBCU will extend the research of intersectionality by examining this phenomenon in a context where Black women students are the majority, but where Black women STEM faculty are the minority. Additionally, studying within-group differences of women of color will offer a deeper intersectional understanding of the complexities of gender issues at HBCUs, while also advancing more nuanced framing of challenges and factors for success.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.