ADVANCE Partnership: AccessADVANCE

AccessADVANCE是NSF ADVANCE合作项目，旨在提高残疾女性在学术科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）事业中的参与和进步。STEM领域的女性残疾教师是一个未被充分研究的群体，往往是隐形人群。与这一群体相关的问题特别重要，因为任何教职员工都可能在职业生涯的某个时候永久或暂时残疾。为了创造真正包容和公平的学术工作场所，必须系统地解决影响残疾教师的问题。AccessADVANCE项目将促进高等教育STEM部门、NSF ADVANCE和NSF INCLUDES项目以及其他组织的系统性变革，使学术职位上的残疾人士感到受欢迎，被充分纳入，并能取得成功。accessadvance将(1)建立一个全国性的在线实践社区，(2)提供现场能力建设研究所。这项合作的目的是为高等教育STEM部门和其他组织制定系统的变革战略，使它们更加欢迎和包容残疾女性教师。这些活动的参与者将有助于创造资源，用于改善学术部门和相关组织中残疾女教员所经历的氛围和文化。该项目还将鼓励残疾女教师及其盟友参与ARC网络和INCLUDES国家网络。重要的是，该项目将为合作者提供持续的技术援助，以帮助他们更改政策、实践和资源。最后，该项目将开发与机构实践相关的广泛可用的在线资源，以提高残疾妇女在STEM学术事业中的成功和进步。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“伙伴关系”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构和非学术、非营利组织适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持。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。

AccessADVANCE is an NSF ADVANCE Partnership project that is designed to increase the participation and advancement of individuals who identify as women with disabilities in academic science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Female faculty with disabilities in STEM fields is an understudied and often invisible population. Issues related to this population are particularly important to address because any faculty member may at some point in their career become disabled, permanently, or temporarily. To create truly inclusive and equitable academic workplaces, it is imperative to systematically address issues impacting faculty with disabilities. The AccessADVANCE project will facilitate systemic changes within postsecondary STEM departments, NSF ADVANCE and NSF INCLUDES projects, and other organizations such that those with disabilities in academic positions feel welcome, are fully included, and can achieve success.AcccessADVANCE will (1) engage a nationwide online community of practice and (2) provide on-site capacity-building institutes. The purpose of this engagement is to develop systemic change strategies for postsecondary STEM departments and other organizations that make them more welcoming to and inclusive of female faculty with disabilities. Participants in these activities will help create resources that can be used to improve the climate and culture experienced by female faculty with disabilities in academic departments and relevant organizations. The project will also encourage engagement of female faculty with disabilities and their allies in the ARC Network and the INCLUDES National Network. Importantly, the project will provide ongoing technical assistance to collaborators to help make changes to their policies, practices, and resources. Finally, the project will develop widely available online resources related to institutional practices to increase the success and advancement of women with disabilities in academic STEM careers. 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 "Partnership" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institution of higher education and 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.