Aspire's Inclusive Faculty Framework Professional Development Series Building DEI Capacity in the INCLUDES National Network to Broaden Participation in STEM

随着我们的国家面临新的和持续的挑战，大学教师和管理人员、高等教育领导者、学科和专业协会都在努力培养技能，以更加包容和公平的方式改变教学和整体机构实践。由公立赠地大学协会（APLU）和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校共同领导的Aspire联盟创建了Aspire的包容性教师框架（IFF），该框架为高等教育专业人员提供了通过三个领域获得技能的机会：理解身份、跨文化意识和关系能力。这些领域，以及与之相关的知识、技能和态度，构成了一套可转移的包容性实践，适用于教师在其职业生涯中扮演的许多角色（例如，讲师、顾问、导师、同事、领导）。凭借这一奖项，Aspire联盟将举办六场1.5小时的同步在线研讨会，并制定一份促进指南，支持参与者创建持续的本地倡议，以进一步探索STEM中的多样性、公平性和包容性（DEI）。专业发展系列将汇集主题专家、更广泛的NSF INCLUDES网络成员、其他NSF倡议以及学科和专业协会，通过实践社区（CoP）模式建立DEI能力，让人们定期互动，共同分享激情和学习。这种能力建设专业发展方法源于Aspire的包容性教师框架（IFF）的发展。IFF颠覆了传统的教师发展研讨会模式，该模式倾向于关注单一的教师角色，而是为高等教育专业人员提供机会，以获得在理解身份、跨文化概念和适用于教师在其职业生涯中扮演的所有角色的关系的背景下建立的技能。该系列将于2020年秋季开始，2021年冬季结束。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。

As our nation faces new and persistent challenges, university faculty and administrators, higher education leaders, and disciplinary and professional societies are all grappling with the need to build skills to transform teaching and overall institutional practices in ways that are more inclusive and equitable. The Aspire Alliance, co-led by the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has created Aspire’s Inclusive Faculty Framework (IFF) which provides opportunities for higher education professionals to acquire skills through three domains: understanding identity, intercultural awareness, and relational competencies. These domains, and the knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with them, comprise a transferable set of inclusive practices that are applicable across the many roles faculty play within their careers (e.g., instructor, advisor, mentor, colleague, leader).With this award, the Aspire Alliance will host six, 1.5-hour synchronous, online seminars and develop a facilitation guide that will support participants to create ongoing local initiatives to further explore diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in STEM. The Professional Development Series, will bring together topic experts, members of the broader NSF INCLUDES Network, other NSF initiatives, as well as disciplinary and professional societies, to build DEI capacity through a Community of Practice (CoP) model of regular interactions of people sharing a passion and learning together. This capacity building professional development approach has emerged from the development of Aspire’s Inclusive Faculty Framework (IFF). The IFF flips the traditional faculty development workshop model, which tends to focus on a single faculty role, to instead provide opportunities for higher education professionals to acquire skills framed in the context of understanding identity, intercultural concepts, and relationships applicable across all the roles faculty play in their careers. The series will begin in the Fall 2020 and conclude in Winter 2021.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.