ADVANCE Adaptation: Spartan Adaptations of Best Practices for Faculty Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校(UNG)高级适应项目将实施活动，以改善UNG STEM教师的公平性，该机构是一所为少数族裔服务的机构，招生人数多样化。该机构进行了一项自我研究，以按性别确定STEM教员的公平问题，并确定了其他预受资助者以及联合国儿童基金会本身的有前途的做法。联合国教科文组织先期适应项目与全校战略计划非常契合，并将有助于北卡罗来纳州皮埃蒙特地区对准备充分和多样化的STEM工作队伍的需求。联合国儿童基金会先行项目预计将通过以下方式产生增强的“关怀文化”：1)加强晋升、终身教职和寻找委员会，并审查离开该机构的教职员工的离职面试数据；2)指导和标准化该机构对外部研究提案的审查，并协调提案的准备；以及3)提高意识、标准化，并实施促进UNG职业与生活平衡的政策。这些制度变革的努力将得到一个名为斯巴达先进盟友的训练有素的志愿者团体的支持，该团体将为在联合国儿童基金会创建整体的“关怀文化”做出贡献。国家科学基金会的先进计划旨在通过专注于识别和消除阻碍不同教员充分参与和提升学术机构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、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“适应”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利性组织的适应和采用循证策略提供支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) ADVANCE Adaptation project will implement activities to improve equity for STEM faculty at UNCG, a minority-serving institution with a diverse student enrollment. The institution has done a self-study to identify equity issues for STEM faculty by gender and have identified promising practices from other ADVANCE grantees as well as at UNCG itself. The UNCG ADVANCE Adaptation project fits well with the campus-wide Strategic Plan and will contribute to the need in the Piedmont of North Carolina region for a well-prepared and diverse STEM workforce.The UNCG ADVANCE project is expected to result in an enhanced "culture of care" by: 1) making promotion and tenure and search committee enhancements and reviewing exit interview data from faculty that leave the institution; 2) mentoring and standardizing the review of external research proposals by the institution and coordinating proposal preparation; and 3) increasing awareness, standardization, and implementation of policies that promote career-life balance at UNCG. These institutional change efforts will be supported throughout the campus by the work of a trained, volunteer, group called Spartans ADVANCE Allies, who will contribute to the creation of an overall "culture of care" at UNCG.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.