Understanding the Barriers to Institutional Success in STEM at Central Michigan University

中密歇根大学（CMU）将实施ADVANCE Catalyst项目，进行教师气候校园调查，对CMU的STEM教师进行焦点小组访谈，对离开CMU的STEM教师和拒绝就业机会的候选人进行访谈。该项目将包括文件和机构数据分析，以了解CMU STEM女性教师成功的障碍。此外，该项目将根据学术部门、种族/民族和/或世界原籍地区分析这些障碍的相似或不同之处。项目团队将访问其他ADVANCE机构，了解他们在类似问题上的成功和挣扎，并将邀请专家演讲者来到CMU。他们将为STEM部门的教师举办一个内隐偏见试点培训项目，了解更多关于内隐偏见的知识，以及它如何在CMU工作场所发挥作用，为教师公平战略计划的制定提供信息。这个为期两年的项目将为大学未来的数据收集和教师公平的数据分析做准备，这些数据可以被机构领导用来为决策提供信息。Catalyst的工作还将为该机构实施基于证据的战略做好准备，以改善所有教师的大学氛围，这将在作为该项目一部分的五年教师公平战略计划中进行概述。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“Catalyst”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年教师公平战略计划的制定提供支持。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。

Central Michigan University (CMU) will implement an ADVANCE Catalyst project to undertake faculty climate campus survey, focus group interviews with STEM faculty at CMU, interviews with STEM faculty who left CMU and candidates who turned down employment offers. The project will include document and institutional data analyses to understand the barriers to success for STEM women faculty at CMU. Furthermore, the project will analyze how these barriers are similar or different depending on the academic department, race/ethnicity, and/or world region of origin. The project team will visit other ADVANCE institutions to learn about their success and struggles with similar issues and will invite expert speakers to come to CMU. They will host a pilot implicit bias training program for faculty in STEM departments and learn more about implicit bias and how it plays out in the CMU workplace to inform the development of the faculty equity strategic plan. This two-year project will prepare the university for future data collection and data analyses of faculty equity which can be used by institutional leadership to inform decision-making. The Catalyst work will also prepare the institution to implement evidence-based strategies to enhance the university climate for all faculty which will be outlined in a five-year faculty equity strategic plan that will be produced as part of this project. 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 "Catalyst" awards provide support for institutional equity assessments and the development of five-year faculty equity strategic plans at an academic, non-profit institution of higher education.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.