STEM Equity Achievement (SEA Change)

美国科学促进会(AAAS)提议发展一项名为STEM公平成就(SEA)改变的全国性倡议。SEA CHANGE将成为致力于体制转型的学院和大学的自愿自我评估和认可系统，以支持科学、技术、工程、数学和医学(STEM)的多样性、公平性和包容性。海洋变化的信息和灵感来自国家科学基金会(NSF)的高级计划和英国备受推崇的雅典娜·天鹅计划。NSF Advance推动了美国高等教育机构内部的组织变革，以解决系统性不平等问题。雅典娜天鹅计划通过授予STEM部门和在促进性别平等和多样性方面符合研究知情标准的机构铜级、银级和金级地位，在英国机构之间创造了良性竞争。SEA CHANGE的目标是使这种激励模式适用于美国，并制定一项广受好评、可信的倡议，从而导致高等教育的结构变革。海洋变化将寻求提供公平、公正的审查，并通过程序和标准的透明度协助各机构获得奖项。AAAS是世界上最大的一般科学组织，因其40多年来对STEM多样性和包容性的计划承诺而受到广泛尊重，并处于领导海洋变化等努力的有利地位。这笔赠款资金将用于支持基础设施的发展，以实现其雄心勃勃的目标，并最终实现自给自足。海洋变革计划是一种大胆、创新和系统的方法，以促进高等教育的结构转型。作为一种积极的自愿认可制度，SEA CHANGE将促进卓越，并通过这些机构的组织结构变革，激励学院、大学及其STEM系变得更加多样化和受欢迎，为STEM中代表性不足和服务不足的群体的教职员工和学生提供更具支持性的学习和工作环境。参与该计划的机构将致力于多样性、公平性和包容性计划原则；进行深入的自我评估，以确定其基线状态；制定独特的、使命驱动的目标和详细的行动计划；接收对其自我评估的反馈；跟踪和报告进展情况；并按五年时间表寻求奖项续签或进步。通过这一过程，海洋变化将推动机构文化、激励、领导力和学生人数的持续和系统的变化，所有这些都是由对公平和准入的关注推动的。该奖项由几个国家科学基金会(NSF)的主任、办公室和项目共同资助，包括：生物科学委员会、计算机和信息科学与工程委员会、教育和人力资源委员会、工程委员会、地球科学委员会、数学和物理科学委员会、社会、行为和经济科学委员会、NSF综合活动办公室、NSF Advance、研究生教育和教授联盟(AGEP)、历史上，黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)、工程教育中心(EEC)扩大了对工程地球科学教育和多样性项目的参与，NSF包括，其重点是催化科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)企业协作努力实现包容性变革。此外，美国国立卫生研究院妇女健康研究办公室已共同资助该项目，将生物医学科学纳入海洋变化努力。这一奖项反映了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 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) proposes the development of a national initiative called STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change. SEA Change will be a voluntary system of self-assessment and recognition for colleges and universities working on institutional transformation to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEM). SEA Change is informed and inspired by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE program and by the United Kingdom's highly regarded Athena SWAN program. NSF ADVANCE has promoted organizational change within U.S. institutions of higher education to address systemic inequities. The Athena SWAN program has created healthy competition among U.K. institutions by awarding Bronze, Silver, and Gold-level status to STEM departments and to institutions that meet research-informed criteria in promoting gender equity and diversity. The goal of SEA Change is to adapt this incentive model to the United States and develop a well-regarded, credible initiative that results in structural change in higher education. SEA Change will seek to provide fair, impartial reviews and assist institutions with attainment of awards through transparency in processes and standards. AAAS is the largest general science organization in the world and is widely respected for its more than 40 years of programmatic commitment to diversity and inclusion in STEM and is well positioned to shepherd an effort like SEA Change. This grant funding will support the development of the infrastructure needed for SEA Change to reach its ambitious goals and eventually to become self-sustaining.The SEA Change program is a bold, innovative, and systemic approach to promote structural transformation in higher education. As a positive, voluntary recognition system, SEA Change will promote excellence and incentivize colleges, universities, and their STEM departments to become more diverse and welcoming through transformations in organizational structures of these institutions, providing a more supportive learning and working environment for faculty and students from groups under-represented and underserved in STEM. Institutions that participate in the program will commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion program principles; perform in depth self-assessment to determine their baseline status; develop unique, mission-driven goals and detailed action-plans; receive feedback on their self-assessments; track and report on progress; and seek award renewal or progression on a five-year schedule. Through this process SEA Change will drive sustained and systemic changes in institutional culture, incentives, leadership, and student populations, all driven by a focus on equity and access.This award is co-funded by several National Science Foundation (NSF) directorates, offices and programs including: Directorate for Biological Sciences, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Directorate for Engineering, Directorate for Geosciences, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, NSF Office of Integrative Activities, NSF ADVANCE, Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professorship (AGEP), Historically Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), Engineering Education Centers (EEC), Broadening Participation in Engineering Geosciences Education and Diversity Programs, and NSF INCLUDES, which focuses on catalyzing the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change. In addition, the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health has co-funded this project to include the biomedical sciences in the SEA Change effort.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.