Alabama ADVANCE Partnership for Achieving Gender Equity in STEM

在STEM领域实现性别平等的阿拉巴马ADVANCE伙伴关系将建立在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校之前的NSF ADVANCE工作以及其他关于性别、种族和民族平等的研究和文献的基础上。合作伙伴包括阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校、阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校、阿拉巴马农工大学、迈尔斯学院和奥克伍德大学。该项目将在合作院校实施实践和政策方面的制度变革，以加强STEM系STEM教师的性别平等和包容。活动包括与STEM教师和管理人员举行的无意识偏见研讨会和讲习班，为搜索和晋升委员会提供培训，以及一年一度的全州性别平等会议，将教务长和STEM院长聚集在一起，讨论旨在增强公平和包容的策略。该伙伴关系将实施基于证据的活动，这些活动已适应伙伴机构的背景，旨在制定新的政策或政策变化，促进STEM教师在学术工作场所的性别平等。ADVANCE伙伴关系建立在阿拉巴马州各机构之间现有关系的基础上，并将与阿拉巴马州的两个路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟项目和奥本大学领导的美国国家科学基金会INCLUDES项目进行协调。奥本INCLUDES项目的重点是通过一个由东南部21个机构组成的区域联盟，提高STEM领域残疾人的数量和水平。这些战略伙伴关系将加强信息共享，并在国家和地区建立一个ADVANCE大学社区。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“伙伴关系”奖为STEM专业协会、学术和非学术非营利组织之间的合作提供支持，旨在扩大基于证据的公平战略的实施，并具有国家或地区影响力。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 Alabama ADVANCE Partnership for Achieving Gender Equity in STEM will build on prior NSF ADVANCE work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and other research and literature concerning gender, racial and ethnic equity. The partnership includes the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama A&M University, Miles College and Oakwood University. The project will implement institutional changes at the partner institutions in practices and policies to enhance gender equity and inclusion for STEM faculty in STEM departments. Activities include unconscious bias seminars and workshops with STEM faculty and administrators, training for search and promotion committees, and annual state-wide conferences on gender equity bringing provosts and STEM deans together to discuss strategies that work to enhance equity and inclusion. The partnership will implement evidence-based activities that have been adapted to the context of the partnering institutions designed to lead to new policies or policy changes that promote gender equity for STEM faculty in the academic workplace. The ADVANCE Partnership builds on existing relationships between the Alabama institutions and will coordinate with two Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation programs in Alabama and an NSF INCLUDES project lead by Auburn University. The Auburn INCLUDES project is focused on increasing the quantity and excellence of persons with disabilities in STEM via a regional alliance of twenty-one institutions in the southeast. These strategic partnerships will enhance the sharing of information and result in the establishment of a community of ADVANCE universities in the state and region. 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 "Partnership" awards provide support to collaborations among STEM professional societies and academic and non-academic non-profit organizations designed to broaden the implementation of evidence-based equity strategies and have a national or regional reach.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.