ADVANCE Adaptation: THRIVE at East Carolina University (ECU): Towards Hiring, Resources, Inclusion, Value and Excellence

东卡罗来纳大学(ECU)的NSF高级适应计划--走向招聘、资源、包容、价值和卓越(Thrive)将通过解决教师招聘、招聘和晋升政策和实践中根深蒂固的偏见来促进性别公平，并为全面纳入和提升不同的教师提供支持。ECU是一所位于北卡罗来纳州东部农村的研究密集型公立大学。为了跨越ECU在性别平等方面的组织障碍，Thrive将：1)为教职员工和领导者实施基于证据的多元文化能力专业发展；2)提供资源和支持网络，以确保妇女，特别是那些因种族、LGBTQ+和其他弱势地位而被边缘化的妇女，因她们的贡献和领导机会而得到承认和奖励；以及3)为教职员工、系主任和院长建立一套问责做法和激励措施，并修改《教职员工手册》和《单位守则》(ECU章程)中的政策和程序，以更公平地管理招聘、晋升和终身教职过程。Thrive的目标是：1)通过建立包容文化来改变文化；2)在所有STEM单位为妇女创建支助系统；以及3)实施结构改革。为了实现这些目标，我们将调整北达科他州立大学发起的倡导者和盟友(A&A；A；A)计划。A&amp；A；采取了一种交叉的方法来打破根深蒂固的等级制度。通过并购，我们将招募、培训和部署历史上享有特权的群体的成员，以打断和纠正人际和程序上的偏见。A&A；A既可以适应不同规模、不同使命和不同影响地区的大学，也可以进行扩展。它已经成功地在克拉克森大学、俄亥俄州立大学、罗切斯特理工学院和怀俄明大学等几所大学进行了情景分析和实施。使用这一经过验证的战略，这笔先期适应赠款将促进欧洲经济共同体的持续、结构性变革。通过这样做，Thrive将改变机构环境，以满足最边缘化教师的经验确定的需求，并支持所有STEM女性晋升、领导和茁壮成长。NSF高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员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、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、非营利性组织提供调整和采用循证策略的支持。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 NSF ADVANCE Adaptation Program-Towards Hiring, Resources, Inclusion, Value and Excellence (THRIVE) at East Carolina University (ECU) will foster gender equity by addressing biases entrenched in faculty recruitment, hiring, and advancement policies and practices, as well as provide support for the full inclusion and advancement of a diverse faculty. ECU is a research-intensive public university located in rural eastern North Carolina. To surmount ECU’s organizational barriers to gender equity, THRIVE will: 1) implement evidenced-based multicultural competence professional development for faculty and leaders; 2) provide resources and a network of support to ensure that women, particularly those marginalized by race, LGBTQ+ and other minoritized statuses, are recognized and rewarded for their contributions and afforded opportunities for leadership; and 3) establish a set of accountability practices and incentives for faculty, department chairs, and deans, as well as modify policies and procedures in the Faculty Manual and Unit Codes (ECU's bylaws), to more equitably govern hiring, promotion, and tenure processes. The aims of THRIVE are to: 1) change culture by building a culture of inclusion; 2) create support systems for women in all STEM units; and 3) implement structural change. To meet these goals, we will adapt the Advocates and Allies (A&A) program, initiated at North Dakota State University. A&A takes an intersectional approach to disrupting entrenched hierarchies. Through A&A we will recruit, train, and deploy members of historically privileged groups to interrupt and correct interpersonal and procedural biases. A&A is both adaptable and scalable to universities of different sizes, missions, and regions of influence. It has been successfully contextualized and implemented at several universities including Clarkson, Ohio State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and University of Wyoming. Using this proven strategy, this ADVANCE Adaptation grant will catalyze sustained, structural change at ECU. In so doing, THRIVE will alter the institutional climate to meet the empirically identified needs of the most marginalized faculty and support all STEM women to advance, lead, and thrive. 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 institutions 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.