RCN: GOLD-EN: Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in Geosciences (LANDInG): Building, Developing and Sustaining DEI Leaders

RCN：GOLD-EN：地球科学多样性和包容性领导力学院和网络 (LANDInG)：建设、发展和维持 DEI 领导者

• 批准号: 2036823
• 负责人: Billy Williams
• 金额: $ 49万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 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=2036823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; GOLD; EN; Leadership; Academy

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will organize a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to support community and leadership development efforts with the goal of creating a more diverse and inclusive geoscience workforce. Cultural shifts can be facilitated by leadership, and research indicates that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are more often effective when championed from the top. Increasing capacity for DEI leadership through a Community of Practice (CoP) and professional development within the geosciences would fill an infrastructure gap for efforts that broaden participation in the geosciences and improve DEI outcomes (directly and indirectly) across the discipline. DEI champions and leaders in the geosciences lack a central community for networking and professional development, hindering broader impact of their efforts. LANDInG RCN's (Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences-Research Coordination Network) aim is to develop a sustainable network of formal and informal leaders to champion DEI values and practices, developing cohorts of new leaders to implement DEI efforts that broaden participation across the geosciences. Leveraging the membership and reach of AGU, in partnership with other geoscience societies, the program will achieve four objectives: Objective 1: Implement a sustainable CoP Network for DEI champions in the geosciences, including a virtual platform (The LANDInG Site) and in-person events to engage and support a broad representation of DEI champions within the geosciences in networking, resource-sharing, and professional development activities. Objective 2: Implement a DEI Leader Academy for the geosciences, building capacity for evidence-based leadership of DEI efforts that specifically address the needs of the geoscience community. Objective 3: Create and foster opportunities for direct experience leading DEI initiatives in the geosciences, to further ensure broad engagement with evidence-based strategies for culture and organizational change while broadening impact for the CoP. Objective 4: Raise the visibility and recognition of DEI champions/ the value of DEI leadership in the geosciences amplifying the expertise and successes of those who participate in the CoP Network and Academy to elevate recognition and value of DEI champions and leaders within the discipline. The model for change draws from research and theory spanning social and organizational sciences, including the literatures on professional networks/mentoring, and implementing effective diversity and leader training. The methods for enacting change are evidence-based and framed by national models for cohort-based professional development within higher education/STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).LANDInG's outcomes for geosciences would include: 1) new models for DEI professional development; 2) increased capacity for DEI leadership; 3) broader and stronger professional networks for DEI champions; 4) increased understanding of DEI needs; 5) institutionalization of new practices/models for DEI change across the discipline. LANDInG's goal's include 1) Increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of women, persons with disabilities, underrepresented minorities, and those at the intersections of these identities in the geosciences; 2) Increased capacity for DEI champions to emerge and affect change in the geosciences; 3) Scalable, sustainable models for professional societies to affect DEI change and broaden participation in STEM; 4) enhanced partnerships between academia, associations, industry, and nonprofit organizations; and 5) development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce.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.

美国地球物理联盟(AGU)将组织一个研究协调网络(RCN)，以支持社区和领导力发展努力，目标是建立一支更加多样化和包容的地球科学劳动力队伍。领导力可以促进文化转变，研究表明，多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)倡议在得到自上而下的支持时往往更有效。通过实践共同体(COP)和地球科学内部的专业发展提高环境与发展部门的领导能力，将填补扩大对地球科学的参与的努力的基础设施空白，并(直接和间接)改善该学科的环境与发展部门的成果。地球科学领域的Dei领军者和领导者缺乏一个网络和专业发展的中心社区，阻碍了他们的努力产生更广泛的影响。在地球科学-研究协调网络中建立领导学院和多样性与包容性网络的目的是建立一个可持续的正式和非正式领导人网络，以倡导Dei的价值观和做法，培养一批新的领导人，以实施Dei努力，扩大整个地球科学的参与。利用AGU的成员和影响力，与其他地球科学学会合作，该计划将实现四个目标：目标1：为地球科学领域的Dei领军者实施可持续的COP网络，包括一个虚拟平台(着陆点)和面对面活动，以在网络、资源共享和专业发展活动中吸引和支持地球科学领域的Dei领军者的广泛代表。目标2：实施地球科学界环境与发展部领导学院，建设以证据为基础领导环境与发展部具体满足地球科学界需要的努力的能力。目标3：创造和培养直接经验的机会，领导地球科学领域的环境与发展倡议，进一步确保广泛参与以证据为基础的文化和组织变革战略，同时扩大对缔约方会议的影响。目标4：提高Dei领军者的知名度和认可度/Dei领导力在地球科学领域的价值，扩大参加COP网络和学会的人的专长和成功，提高Dei领军者和领导者在该学科中的认知度和价值。变革模式借鉴了横跨社会科学和组织科学的研究和理论，包括关于专业网络/指导以及实施有效多样性和领导者培训的文献。实施变革的方法是以证据为基础的，并以高等教育/STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)中以队列为基础的专业发展的国家模式为框架。LANDING在地球科学方面的成果将包括：1)环境与发展部专业发展的新模式；2)提高环境与发展部领导能力；3)为环境与发展部的领军者建立更广泛和更强大的专业网络；4)更好地了解环境与发展部的需要；5)将新的做法/模式制度化，以促进各学科的环境与发展部的变化。蓝地的目标包括：1)增加妇女、残疾人、少数族裔和这些身份在地球科学中的交汇点的招聘、留住和提升；2)提高环境保护倡导者涌现并影响地球科学领域变化的能力；3)可扩展、可持续的模式，使专业社会影响环境变化并扩大对STEM的参与；4)加强学术界、协会、行业和非营利组织之间的伙伴关系；5)发展一支多样化的、具有全球竞争力的STEM工作队伍。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。