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

路易斯维尔大学(UofL)的先进适应项目名为通过健康赋权、网络和意识促进(雅典娜)，将改善STEM教师的公平性。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。该项目将导致建立雅典娜STEM公平中心，该中心将加强加州大学法学院在STEM公平研究方面的机构能力，并将有助于维持被证明有效的先行适应项目战略。该机构已经进行了一项自我研究，以确定STEM教员按性别划分的公平问题，并从其他先行受赠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教员在职级上的不同时间；以及4)职业隔离。将实施的战略包括：通过调整密歇根大学招聘战略和战术的组成部分来改变搜索、招聘和招聘做法，以增加多样性和卓越(STRIDE)；根据佛罗里达国际大学的教师指导计划(FMP)创建一个指导计划，重点是改善职业生涯中期晋升的机会；建立一个计划，支持教师经历重大生活事件的职业进步；实施数据收集，以支持评估和监测工作；以及通过以剧院为基础的工作室，教育教员关于影响STEM学科中女性进步的性别偏见。NSF高级方案旨在通过专注于发现和消除阻碍不同教员在学术机构充分参与和提高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 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.