ADVANCE Partnership: ImPACT IT: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Information Technology

ImPACT IT项目将解决信息系统（IS）学术界缺乏性别平等的问题。增加女性的数量，特别是在正教授级别，有利于整个社会，因为在IS高级教师中，所有交叉身份的女性的平等代表将提高学生的教育质量，大学研究的影响，与社区的参与，以及高等教育机构的领导。采用三管齐下的交叉方法，ImPACT IT将：(1)评估、发展和改进AIS政策和实践，包括交叉数据收集和分析；(2)创建和制度化最佳实践和系统，支持女性晋升为正教授；(3)在信息系统协会（AIS）及其成员内部实施减少和减轻隐性和隐性偏见的最佳实践。这些活动加在一起，将促进在支持妇女努力晋升为正教授方面采取行动并促进问责制。预期的结果将是在AIS内部，其流程和政策中增加性别平等，以及增加女性IS教师晋升为正教授的人数。此外，由于这个项目包括了不同的协会成员，它将有助于研究性别平等的知识库，以及性别与it学术生涯中其他身份（如种族和性别）的交集。通过与成功的项目合作，调整现有ADVANCE项目支持的资源和最佳实践，将产生更大的影响。影响信息技术模式将广泛传播，并可作为其他寻求增加妇女晋升为高等教育正教授人数的协会的榜样。美国高等教育学院才刚刚开始努力解决女性和代表性不足的少数族裔在高等教育领域的系统性劣势，尤其是在她们晋升为正教授的努力方面。造成这种情况的主要原因是缺乏有关AIS成员的全面人口统计数据，包括AIS中妇女和少数民族的人数。由于缺乏数据，很难追踪AIS在支持女性和代表性不足的少数族裔成员方面的努力是成功还是失败。该项目的独特之处在于它建立在ADVANCE资助的先前研究的基础上。此外，它更深入地了解了STEM协会如何让其领导层和成员参与进来，以增加女性和未被充分代表的少数民族在正教授职位上的代表性和进步。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STEM专业协会、学术和非学术非营利组织之间的合作提供支持，旨在扩大基于证据的公平战略的实施，并具有国家或地区影响力。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 ImPACT IT project will address the lack of gender equity within Information Systems (IS) academia. Increasing the number of women, especially at the rank of full professor, benefits all of society since equal representation of women of all intersectional identities among the senior ranks of IS faculty will enhance the quality of students’ education, the impact of university research, engagement with communities, and the leadership of higher education institutions. Using a three-pronged intersectional approach, ImPACT IT will: (1) assess, develop, and improve AIS policies and practices, including intersectional data collection and analysis, (2) create and institutionalize best practices and systems that support women in their path towards promotion to full professor; and (3) implement best practices in reducing and mitigating hidden and implicit biases within the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and its members. Taken together these activities will catalyze action and foster accountability around supporting women’s efforts to advance to full professor. The expected outcome will be increased gender equity within the AIS, its processes, and policies, as well as increased numbers of women IS faculty receiving promotion to full professor. Additionally, because this project includes a diverse cross-section of association members, it will contribute to the research knowledge base on gender equity and the intersection of gender with other identities in IT academic careers, such as race and sexuality. By partnering with successful programs and adapting existing ADVANCE program supported resources and best practices, greater impact will be achieved. The ImPact IT model will be disseminated broadly and can serve as a role model for other associations seeking to increase the number of women promoted to full professor in higher education.The AIS has only just begun to grapple with the systemic disadvantages to women and under-represented minorities in the IS field, and especially in their efforts to advance to full professor. A primary driver of this has been the lack of comprehensive demographic data on AIS membership, including the number of women and minorities in the AIS. The dearth of data makes it difficult to track the success or failure in AIS’ efforts to support women and under-represented minority members. The project is unique in the way it builds upon prior research from ADVANCE grants. Further, it gives greater insight into how STEM associations can engage their leadership and members to increase the representation and advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in the rank of full professor. 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 to collaborations among STEM professional societies and academic and non-academic non-profit organizations designed to broaden the implementation of evidence-based equity strategies and have a national or regional reach.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.