ADVANCE Catalyst: Discovery Enabling Systemic Advancement and Faculty Inclusion Across Ranks (DESAFIAR)

ADVANCE Catalyst：发现促进系统性进步和跨级别教师包容（DESAFIAR）

• 批准号: 2025061
• 负责人: Mitch Avila
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: California State University Channel Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Catalyst; Discovery; Enabling; Systemic

California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) will implement an NSF ADVANCE Catalyst project called DESAFIAR (Discovery Enabling Systemic Advancement and Faculty Inclusion Across Ranks). CSUCI is well positioned for a Catalyst grant, due to a strong campus emphasis on increasing inclusivity, recent changes in critical administrative positions, and an expected 60% growth in campus size. The latter will lead to adding STEM faculty in numbers that allow a dramatic change in the STEM faculty composition. The Catalyst work will enable significant learning about important systemic factors to ensure equitable experiences for current and newly hired faculty. The project will focus on four goals: 1) Implement robust data tracking around each stage of faculty recruitment and hiring practices; 2) Explore perceptions and realities of equity and transparency in faculty teaching and service loads; 3) Review policies and practices; 4) Collaboratively develop a 5-year plan to enhance faculty diversity in STEM. The five-year STEM faculty equity plan will incorporate lessons learned from data collection and policy review, a thorough literature review of ADVANCE and faculty-equity related works, and from consulting with CSUCI leadership and others in the ADVANCE network through site visits to ADVANCE awardees and participation in the ARC Network’s conferences and webinars. By adapting discovery efforts modeled by different types of institutions to our context of a midsize regional public institution where over half of the enrolled students are from groups historically underrepresented in STEM or are lower-income and first-generation students, we will increase understanding of how particular equity initiatives generalize across institutions and institutional types. Lessons learned will be shared to promote analogous changes at other institutions, thus contributing to the development of a diverse STEM workforce in academia and in general.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.

加州州立大学海峡群岛分校（CSUCI）将实施一项名为DESAFIAR（发现促进系统进步和跨级别教师包容）的NSF ADVANCE Catalyst项目。CSUCI很有可能获得Catalyst的资助，因为学校非常重视增加包容性，最近关键行政职位发生了变化，校园规模预计将增长60%。后者将导致增加STEM教师的数量，从而使STEM教师的组成发生巨大变化。Catalyst的工作将有助于了解重要的系统因素，以确保现有和新聘教师的公平体验。该项目将专注于四个目标：1)在教师招聘和招聘实践的每个阶段实施稳健的数据跟踪；2)探索教师教学和服务负荷公平和透明的观念和现实；3)审查政策和做法；4)合作制定一项5年计划，以增强STEM教师的多样性。这项为期五年的STEM教师权益计划将包括以下方面的经验教训：数据收集和政策审查、对ADVANCE和教师权益相关工作的全面文献综述、通过对ADVANCE获奖者的实地访问和参与ARC网络的会议和网络研讨会，与CSUCI领导层和ADVANCE网络中的其他人进行咨询。通过调整由不同类型的机构建模的发现工作，以适应我们的中型区域公共机构的背景，其中超过一半的入学学生来自STEM历史上代表性不足的群体或低收入和第一代学生，我们将增加对特定公平倡议如何在机构和机构类型中推广的理解。将分享经验教训，以促进其他机构的类似变革，从而为学术界和一般领域多样化STEM劳动力的发展做出贡献。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。