ADVANCE Partnership: Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges Partnering and Liaising Across the Nation

SUNY Geneseo将领导一个名为COPLAC Partnering and Liaising Across the Nation（COPLAC）的NSF ADVANCE合作项目，为COPLAC机构提供转型性的机构变革战略。 COPLAC（公立文理学院理事会）联盟包括全国29所国家资助的本科院校（PUI）。 COPLAC的所有成员都有一个共同的使命，即为他们的选民提供高质量、负担得起的教育。 该项目将开展两项主要工作：1）培训和赋权有影响力的人，如管理人员和主席，以解决问题和创建公平目标，以及2）在COPLAC教师中创建便利的虚拟专业亲和团体。培训将纳入协调委员会年度会议，以支持机构领导人的参与。该项目将确保工作包括关注STEM学术工作场所的交叉问题，这将有助于提高正在调整的ADVANCE战略的有效性。 该项目包括一个强有力的计划，以分享和传播有关该项目的信息，这将广泛适用于许多其他PUI。 此外，作为州高等教育系统一部分的COPLAC机构为与州系统分享与该项目一起制定的战略提供了另一个渠道。 该项目有可能减少COPLAC联盟机构内的不公平现象，并可能为全国面临类似挑战的其他PUI提供有用的模式。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定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、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖旨在支持STEM专业协会与学术和非学术非营利组织之间的合作，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NSF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。

SUNY Geneseo will lead an NSF ADVANCE Partnership project called the COPLAC Partnering and Liaising Across the Nation (PLAN) Initiative to provide transformational institutional change strategies for COPLAC institutions. The COPLAC (Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges) consortium includes twenty-nine, state-funded, predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs) across the nation. All members of COPLAC share a mission to provide a high-quality, affordable education to their constituents. The project will undertake two main efforts: 1) training and empowering influencers such as administrators and chairs to problem solve and create equity goals, and 2) creating facilitated virtual professional affinity groups among COPLAC faculty. The training will be integrated in the COPLAC annual meeting to support the participation of institutional leadership. The affinity groups will be tailored to support the unique needs of faculty at PUIs and create a conduit for sharing faculty equity issues with COPLAC leaders.The project will ensure that efforts include attention to intersectional issues in STEM academic workplaces which will contribute to the effectiveness of the ADVANCE strategies that are being adapted. The project includes a strong plan for sharing and disseminating information on the project which will be broadly applicable to many other PUIs. In addition, COPLAC institutions that are part of state systems of higher education offer an additional avenue for sharing strategies developed with this project with the state-wide systems. This project has the potential to reduce inequities within the COPLAC consortium institutions and may result in a useful model for other PUIs facing similar challenges across the nation. 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.