ADVANCE Adaptation: Leveling the Playing Field, Strategic Equity Initiatives at Murray State University

默里州立大学（MSU）ADVANCE适应项目将改善MSU STEM教师的公平性，MSU是肯塔基州西部农村地区的一所区域综合性和主要本科公立大学。MSU服务于一个在STEM教育中历史上服务不足的地区。 密歇根州立大学适应项目将适应新罕布什尔州（UNH），华盛顿大学（UW）和杰克逊州立大学（JSU）的计划。 密歇根州立大学学习将适应UNH的互动剧院计划，以减少搜索，任期和晋升委员会的隐性偏见。MSU GROW将通过调整JSU的写作务虚会和UW的教师研讨会以及继续默里州立大学的同行指导圈子来解决保留和领导力发展问题。MSU LIVE将通过创建总统工作生活工作队，教育MSU社区了解现有政策，并创建/修订有关工作场所灵活性和配偶住宿的政策来解决工作/生活平衡问题。该项目建立在成功的ADVANCE Catalyst奖项的基础上，继续开展指导圈计划并继续进行年度数据收集。 该适应项目还将补充和促进密歇根州立大学的长期战略举措计划，以招聘，留住和从事多元化的教师。 MSU-LEARN将有助于雇用不同的候选人，并消除任期和晋升过程中的偏见; MSU-GROW将为职业早期和职业中期的教师提供专业发展和指导机会; MSU-LIVE将使MSU成为一个家庭友好的工作场所。 该项目旨在最终使MSU的所有教师受益。 最后，这个项目有可能通过一个多样性计划通知肯塔基州的所有高等教育机构，该计划需要向州理事会报告中学后教育。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“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。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。

The Murray State University (MSU) ADVANCE Adaptation project, will improve equity for STEM faculty at MSU, which is a regional comprehensive and primarily undergraduate public university in rural western Kentucky. MSU serves a region that has been historically underserved in STEM education. The MSU Adaptation project will adapt programs from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), University of Washington (UW), and Jackson State University (JSU). MSU LEARN will adapt UNH's interactive theatre program to reduce implicit bias on search, tenure and promotion committees. MSU GROW will address retention and leadership development by adapting JSU's writing retreats and UW's faculty workshops and continuing Murray State's peer mentoring circles. MSU LIVE will address work/life balance by creating a President's Work-Life Task Force, educating the MSU community about existing policies, and creating/revising policies regarding workplace flexibility and spousal accommodation. This project builds on a successful ADVANCE Catalyst award by continuing the Mentoring Circle program and continue annual data collection. This Adaptation project will also complement and contribute to MSU's long-term Strategic Initiatives Plan to recruit, retain and engage a diverse faculty. MSU-LEARN will contribute to hiring of diverse candidates and removing bias from tenure and promotion processes; MSU-GROW will provide professional development and mentoring opportunities for both early-career and mid-career faculty; and MSU-LIVE will make MSU a family-friendlier workplace. The project is designed to ultimately benefit all faculty at MSU. Finally, this project has the potential to inform all institutions of higher education in Kentucky through a diversity plan required to be reported to the state Council on Postsecondary Education. 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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institution of higher education as well as non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.