Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES Alliance: National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty (NAIDSF)

合作研究：NSF 包括联盟：包容性和多元化 STEM 教师国家联盟 (NAIDSF)

• 批准号: 1834521
• 负责人: Craig Ogilvie
• 金额: $ 140.27万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834521&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance

The National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty (NAIDSF) is an NSF INCLUDES Alliance which intends to increase the learning, persistence, and completion of students from underrepresented groups (URG) in STEM throughout postsecondary education, and thereby increase their contributions to the U.S. STEM enterprise. Broadening participation in the STEM workforce will bring diverse perspectives, improving our nation's ability to solve complex social challenges, and expanding the technological and innovation-based economy. The Alliance's overarching strategy is to improve professional development and hiring practices of STEM faculty across three interactive change strategies at institutional, regional, and national levels. To facilitate Institutional Change, NAIDSF will help institutions examine their practices for recruiting, hiring, and retaining URG faculty; enhance faculty inclusive practices; develop action plans to increase diversity among STEM faculty; provide resources to help implement needed reforms; and provide training for the next generation of diverse institutional leaders. Recognizing that career pathways for faculty at 2-year colleges often occur within regional ecosystems, NAIDSF's Regional Change initiative will build Regional Collaboratives of 2-year colleges, 4-year regional universities, local research universities, and the private sector--all collectively developing and onboarding more faculty who are skilled in teaching diverse student populations and increasing the number of diverse faculty in the 2-year colleges where many URG students begin higher education. NAIDSF will seek National Change by partnering with disciplinary, URG-focused, and professional development organizations to align faculty disciplinary experiences with their institutional experiences that are fostered through the Alliance's Institutional and Regional Change initiatives. Together, these efforts will create and advance national systemic change for STEM faculty, STEM departments, disciplinary societies, and institutional leadership.Anchored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), over 50 universities, three regional collaboratives (Iowa, California, and Texas), and more than 35 cross-sector partners have already committed to collectively achieving the Alliance goals. Using collective impact to work across sectors (diverse institutional types and disciplinary societies) as well as across systems (institutional leaders, departments, faculty, and professional development systems), the Alliance aims to enhance the use of inclusive practices to increase the diversity of the national STEM faculty at the institutional, regional, and national levels. Goals will be evaluated through a comprehensive plan providing both formative and summative assessments within the change streams and across the Alliance. A set of common metrics will be used to align activities and foci across the Alliance. NAIDSF includes both research and evaluation teams assessing the Alliance's theories of change, immediate impacts, and feeding back on collaborative processes. Integrating CIRTL's success in shared leadership decision-making and APLU's engagement with multiple groups of institutional leaders, the leadership team will develop and share Alliance policies, coordinate activities across workstreams, and engage with leaders of partnering and related efforts. Connecting the entire project, the Alliance backbone will coordinate and integrate activities and provide a multifaceted communications structure. Alliance programming is designed to be modular, portable, and adaptable, making it both accessible and sustainable at both institutions and disciplinary groups that vary in size, resources, and mission.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which targets increasing the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM disciplines.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.

全国包容性和多元化 STEM 教师联盟 (NAIDSF) 是 NSF 的一个联盟，旨在提高来自代表性不足群体 (URG) 的学生在整个高等教育中的 STEM 学习、坚持和完成度，从而增加他们对美国 STEM 事业的贡献。扩大 STEM 劳动力的参与将带来多元化的观点，提高我们国家解决复杂社会挑战的能力，并扩大以技术和创新为基础的经济。该联盟的总体战略是通过机构、地区和国家层面的三项互动变革战略来改善 STEM 教师的专业发展和招聘实践。为了促进机构变革，NAIDSF 将帮助机构检查其招募、聘用和留住 URG 教员的做法；加强教师包容性实践；制定行动计划以增加 STEM 教师的多样性；提供资源以帮助实施所需的改革；并为下一代多元化机构领导者提供培训。认识到两年制学院教师的职业道路通常发生在区域生态系统内，NAIDSF 的区域变革计划将建立由两年制学院、四年制区域大学、地方研究型大学和私营部门组成的区域合作组织，所有这些都共同培养和培养更多擅长教授多元化学生群体的教师，并增加许多 URG 学生开始接受高等教育的两年制学院的多元化教师数量。 NAIDSF 将通过与学科、以 URG 为重点的专业发展组织合作，将教师的学科经验与其通过联盟的机构和区域变革举措培养的机构经验相结合，从而寻求国家变革。这些努力共同将为 STEM 教师、STEM 部门、学科协会和机构领导力创造和推动国家系统性变革。在公立和赠地大学协会 (APLU) 和研究、教学和学习一体化中心 (CIRTL) 的支持下，50 多所大学、三个区域合作机构（爱荷华州、加利福尼亚州和德克萨斯州）以及超过 35 个跨部门合作伙伴已经承诺共同实现 联盟目标。该联盟利用集体影响力跨部门（不同的机构类型和学科协会）以及跨系统（机构领导、部门、教师和专业发展系统）开展工作，旨在加强包容性实践的使用，以增加机构、地区和国家层面的国家 STEM 教师的多样性。将通过一项全面的计划来评估目标，该计划在变革流和整个联盟内提供形成性和总结性评估。将使用一组通用指标来协调整个联盟的活动和重点。 NAIDSF 包括研究和评估团队，评估联盟的变革理论、直接影响并反馈协作过程。领导团队将 CIRTL 在共享领导决策方面的成功以及 APLU 与多个机构领导小组的合作相结合，制定和共享联盟政策，协调跨工作流程的活动，并与合作和相关工作的领导者进行互动。连接整个项目的联盟骨干将协调和整合活动并提供多方面的通信结构。联盟计划被设计为模块化、可移植和适应性强，使其在规模、资源和使命各异的机构和学科组中都可以使用和可持续。该 NSF 包括联盟由 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划共同资助，该计划的目标是增加 STEM 学科中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。该奖项反映了 通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。