ADVANCE Adaptation: University of Arkansas Empowering Networked Groups for Arkansas Gender Equity (ENGAGE)

阿肯色州的NSF ADVANCE适应计划（ENGAGE）的目标是使STEM教师多样化，并确保所有教师都能在我们的环境中茁壮成长。参与将通过重新想象如何评估和分配服务工作，解决有色人种妇女和白色妇女在校园中的边缘化和孤立问题，作为不平等的根源。因此，我们寻求转变为包容性和认可的文化，通过1）通过服务工作量的重新分配来支持研究并使服务义务透明化，赋予白色妇女和有色妇女权力; 2）将孤立的白色妇女和有色妇女连接到活跃的研究团队; 3）吸引和支持白色妇女和有色妇女到校园。通过这种方式，我们的公平倡议寻求重组性别和种族化的逻辑作为公平的，同时通过提供辅导和融入研究团队解决孤立的经验。阿肯色州大学的定位是应用组织理论和先进奖学金的经验教训，改变大学。 从这个项目预期的文化转变将导致重视所有教师的贡献，并将符合跨学科研究，创新和合作的大学范围内的重点。 此外，阿肯色州大学的适应性参与项目将补充最近推出的包容性和多样性研究所。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教师充分参与和发展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、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。该奖项反映了NSF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 goals of the University of Arkansas’s NSF ADVANCE Adaptation program (ENGAGE) are to diversify STEM faculty and assure all faculty can thrive in our environment. ENGAGE will address the marginalization and isolation of women of color and white women on campus as a source of inequality by re-imagining how service work is valued and allotted. Thus, we seek to shift to a culture of inclusivity and recognition through 1) empowering white women and women of color through the redistribution of service workloads to both support research and make service obligations transparent; 2) connecting isolated white women and women of color to active research teams; and 3) attracting and supporting white women and women of color to campus. In this way, our equity initiatives seek to restructure gendered and racialized logics as equitable while addressing the experience of isolation by providing mentoring and integration into research teams.The University of Arkansas is positioned to apply lessons learned from organizations theory and ADVANCE scholarship to change the university. The cultural shift expected from this project will result in valuing the contributions of all faculty and will coincide with a university-wide emphasis on interdisciplinary research, innovation, and collaboration. In addition, the University of Arkansas Adaptation ENGAGE project will compliment a recently launched Institute for Inclusion and Diversity.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.