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

北卡罗莱纳大学格林斯博罗分校（UNCG） ADVANCE适应项目将实施活动，以提高UNCG STEM教师的公平，UNCG是一所少数族裔服务机构，拥有多元化的学生。该机构进行了一项自我研究，以确定STEM教师的性别平等问题，并从其他ADVANCE受资助者以及UNCG本身确定了有前途的做法。UNCG ADVANCE适应项目与校园范围内的战略计划非常吻合，将有助于满足北卡罗莱纳州皮埃蒙特地区对准备充分和多样化的STEM劳动力的需求。联合国儿童基金会ADVANCE项目预计将通过以下方式加强“关怀文化”：1)加强晋升和终身聘用委员会，审查离开该机构的教员的离职面谈数据；2)指导和规范机构对外研究提案的评审工作，协调提案的编制工作；3)提高对促进UNCG工作与生活平衡的政策的认识、标准化和执行。这些体制改革的努力将在整个校园得到一个训练有素的志愿团体“斯巴达先进联盟”（Spartans ADVANCE Allies）的支持，他们将为在UNCG建立一种全面的“关怀文化”做出贡献。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“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。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 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.