ADVANCE Adaptation: Advancement through Healthy Empowerment, Networking and Awareness (ATHENA) at University of Louisville

路易斯维尔大学（UofL）推进适应项目，称为通过健康赋权，网络和意识（ATHENA）的进步，将改善STEM教师的公平。UofL是一所国家支持的研究型大学，其使命是在研究，教学和服务方面追求卓越和包容性。该项目将导致雅典娜STEM公平中心的创建，这将增强UofL在STEM公平研究方面的机构能力，并将有助于维持ADVANCE适应项目战略的有效性。该机构已经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受资助者那里确定了有前途的做法。雅典娜项目将解决的领域包括：1)隐性偏见；2)招聘和保留；3) STEM教师的等级差异时间；4)职业隔离。将实施的策略包括：通过调整密歇根大学的招聘战略和策略来增加多样性和卓越性（STRIDE），改变搜索、招聘和雇佣实践；在佛罗里达国际大学教师指导计划（FMP）的基础上，创建一个以提高职业中期晋升机会为重点的指导计划；建立一个项目，支持教师在经历重大生活事件时的职业发展；实施数据收集，以支持评估和监测工作；并通过基于戏剧的研讨会，对教师进行性别种族偏见的教育，这些偏见会影响女性在STEM学科中的进步。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 Louisville (UofL) ADVANCE Adaptation project called the Advancement through Healthy Empowerment, Networking, and Awareness (ATHENA) will improve equity for STEM faculty. UofL is a state-supported research university, with a mission to pursue excellence and inclusiveness in research, teaching, and service. The project will lead to the creation of an ATHENA Center for STEM Equity which will enhance UofL's institutional capacity in STEM equity research and will help to sustain the ADVANCE Adaptation project strategies shown to be effective.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. Areas that will be addressed by the ATHENA project include: 1) implicit bias; 2) recruitment and retention; 3) differential time in rank for STEM faculty; and 4) professional isolation. Strategies that will be implemented include: changing the search, recruitment and hiring practices by adapting components from the University of Michigan's Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Increase Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE); creating a mentoring program with an emphasis on improving opportunities for mid-career promotion based on Florida International University's Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP); establishing a program to support the career progress of faculty going through major life events; implementing data collection to support evaluation and monitoring efforts; and educating faculty about gender-by-ethnicity biases that affect the advancement of women in STEM disciplines through theatre based workshops.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.