ADVANCE Catalyst: Improving Gender and Foreign-Born Equity among STEM Faculty at the University of North Dakota

ADVANCE Catalyst：改善北达科他大学 STEM 教师中的性别和外国出生的平等

• 批准号: 2042208
• 负责人: Justin Berg
• 金额: $ 27.46万
• 依托单位: University of North Dakota Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2042208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Catalyst; Improving; Gender; Foreign

University of North Dakota will implement an ADVANCE Catalyst project to conduct an institutional self-assessment of existing inequalities among its STEM faculty, particularly as experienced by women, racial and ethnic minorities, and foreign-born individuals. These demographic groups constitute over half of the STEM faculty at UND. Existing differences in salary and tenure and other employment conditions hinder individual, and consequently institutional, advancement. To better understand the complex and important sociocultural processes and policy structures that generate these relative and objective disadvantages among its STEM faculty, UND will use an intersectionality perspective that analyzes how individuals who self-identify with multiple social statuses simultaneously interact within an organization that systematically rank orders social groups, from promotion and tenure to laboratory space. UND will use the information from the institutional self-assessment to design a five-year strategic plan that promotes sustainable equity in its STEM disciplines and may serve as a reference point for non-STEM disciplines.The two-year project aims to identify the types of, extent of, and reasons for, inequality through a range of methodological techniques, including university analytics, policy analysis, faculty surveys, focus groups, and individual in-depth interviews. The different strategies are advantageous with respect to identifying objective individual differences, organizational arrangements, and intergroup perceptions, all of which aim to shed light on the context of inequality and the mediating sociocultural processes that link micro social identities with systemic advantage or disadvantage. With these results, the broader scope of the project, which is to communicate sustainable strategies for equity in STEM disciplines, may contribute to the advancement of current and future STEM scholars. An additional implication centers on advancing theoretical understanding of dynamic social identities in the workplace, knowledge which may empower diverse individuals and improve research and labor market innovations. 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.

北达科他州的大学将实施一个先进的催化剂项目，进行其干教师之间的现有不平等的机构自我评估，特别是妇女，种族和少数民族，和外国出生的个人经历。这些人口群体占UND STEM教师的一半以上。 工资和任期以及其他就业条件方面的现有差别妨碍了个人的进步，从而也妨碍了机构的进步。为了更好地了解复杂而重要的社会文化过程和政策结构，这些过程和政策结构在其STEM教师中产生了这些相对和客观的劣势，UND将使用交叉性的视角，分析自我认同具有多种社会地位的个人如何同时在一个组织内进行互动，该组织系统地排名社会团体，从晋升和终身职位到实验室空间。UND将利用机构自我评估的信息设计一个五年战略计划，促进STEM学科的可持续公平，并可作为非STEM学科的参考点。这个为期两年的项目旨在通过一系列方法技术，包括大学分析，政策分析，教师调查，焦点小组，个人深入访谈。不同的战略有利于确定客观的个人差异、组织安排和群体间的看法，所有这些都旨在揭示不平等的背景和将微观社会身份与系统优势或劣势联系起来的中介社会文化过程。有了这些结果，该项目的更广泛范围，这是沟通可持续的战略，以公平的STEM学科，可能有助于当前和未来的STEM学者的进步。另一个含义是推进对工作场所动态社会身份的理论理解，这些知识可以赋予不同的个人权力，并改善研究和劳动力市场创新。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、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。ADVANCE“催化剂”奖项为学术性、非营利高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年期教师公平战略计划的制定提供支持。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。