AGEP EAGER: Exploring Conditions for Systemic Equity Transformation that Advance Women and Minority STEM Faculty

当女性和历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)教职员工在我国的大学和学院得到聘用和晋升时，未来STEM劳动力的成功的高等教育将得到改善。尽管学术博士职位的多样性有所增加，但女性和URM教师的比例远远低于她们在美国人口中的比例或STEM招收的本科生数量。在中学后教育环境中采用组织变革倡议时，解决STEM教师职业生涯的障碍就会加快。这项探索性的概念验证研究正在考察在哪些机构背景下，哪些方法和类型的领导人正在推进大学和学院教师公平项目，例如由美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授高级联盟(AGEP)项目资助的项目。该项目团队正在创建一个工具包，其中包括诊断标准和公平领导实践核对表，大学和学院可以使用这些检查表来确定成功的教师多元化倡议的途径。该项目包括与有兴趣在其校园实施股权改革的机构一起对这些工具进行试点测试。研究结果和项目成果将使我国的大学和学院能够确定系统性公平转型的关键杠杆点，以及实现校园公平目标所需的必要实践、政策和文化变革，为将院校纳入示范的成功公平方法提供具体手段。该奖项由AGEP项目资助，该项目支持模型的开发、实施和研究，以增加STEM和STEM教育研究领域的URM教员数量。它还由NSF高级计划资助，该计划提供赠款，以开发系统的方法，以增加女性在学术STEM职业生涯中的参与。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 successful post-secondary education of tomorrow's STEM workforce is improved when women and historically underrepresented minority (URM) faculty are hired and promoted in our nation's universities and colleges. While there have been increases in the diversity of academic doctoral positions, the share of women and URM faculty is considerably less than their share in the U.S. population or in the number of undergraduate students enrolled in STEM. Addressing the barriers to STEM faculty careers is accelerated when organizational change initiatives are employed in the post-secondary education setting. This exploratory proof-of-concept study is examining which approaches and which types of leaders, in which institutional contexts, are advancing university and college faculty equity projects such as those funded by the NSF's ADVANCE and Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) programs. The project team is creating a toolkit that includes diagnostic rubrics and equity leadership practices checklists that universities and colleges can use to identify pathways to successful faculty diversity initiatives. The project includes pilot testing of the tools with institutions interested in implementing equity reform on their campuses. The study results and project outcomes will enable our nation's universities and colleges to identify key leverage points for systemic equity transformation and the requisite practices, policies, and cultural changes needed for achieving campus equity goals, providing a concrete means to on-board institutions into demonstrated successful equity approaches. This award is funded by the AGEP program, which supports the development, implementation and study of models to increase the number of URM faculty in STEM and STEM education research fields. It is also funded by the NSF ADVANCE program, which provides grants to develop systemic approaches to increase the participation of women in academic STEM careers.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.