ADVANCE Partnership: ImPACT IT: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Information Technology

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：ImPACT IT：提高女性在信息技术领域的参与度和进步

• 批准号: 2102119
• 负责人: Eleanor Loiacono
• 金额: $ 99.81万
• 依托单位: College of William and Mary
• 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 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2102119&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; ImPACT; Increasing; Participation

The ImPACT IT project will address the lack of gender equity within Information Systems (IS) academia. Increasing the number of women, especially at the rank of full professor, benefits all of society since equal representation of women of all intersectional identities among the senior ranks of IS faculty will enhance the quality of students’ education, the impact of university research, engagement with communities, and the leadership of higher education institutions. Using a three-pronged intersectional approach, ImPACT IT will: (1) assess, develop, and improve AIS policies and practices, including intersectional data collection and analysis, (2) create and institutionalize best practices and systems that support women in their path towards promotion to full professor; and (3) implement best practices in reducing and mitigating hidden and implicit biases within the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and its members. Taken together these activities will catalyze action and foster accountability around supporting women’s efforts to advance to full professor. The expected outcome will be increased gender equity within the AIS, its processes, and policies, as well as increased numbers of women IS faculty receiving promotion to full professor. Additionally, because this project includes a diverse cross-section of association members, it will contribute to the research knowledge base on gender equity and the intersection of gender with other identities in IT academic careers, such as race and sexuality. By partnering with successful programs and adapting existing ADVANCE program supported resources and best practices, greater impact will be achieved. The ImPact IT model will be disseminated broadly and can serve as a role model for other associations seeking to increase the number of women promoted to full professor in higher education.The AIS has only just begun to grapple with the systemic disadvantages to women and under-represented minorities in the IS field, and especially in their efforts to advance to full professor. A primary driver of this has been the lack of comprehensive demographic data on AIS membership, including the number of women and minorities in the AIS. The dearth of data makes it difficult to track the success or failure in AIS’ efforts to support women and under-represented minority members. The project is unique in the way it builds upon prior research from ADVANCE grants. Further, it gives greater insight into how STEM associations can engage their leadership and members to increase the representation and advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in the rank of full professor. 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 "Partnership" awards provide support to collaborations among STEM professional societies and academic and non-academic non-profit organizations designed to broaden the implementation of evidence-based equity strategies and have a national or regional reach.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.

Impact IT项目将解决信息系统(IS)学术界缺乏性别平等的问题。增加女性人数，特别是正教授职级，有利于整个社会，因为IS高级教职员工中所有交叉身份的女性平等代表权将提高学生的教育质量、大学研究的影响、与社区的接触以及高等教育机构的领导力。使用三管齐下的方法，Impact IT将：(1)评估、发展和改进AIS的政策和做法，包括跨部门的数据收集和分析；(2)创建最佳做法和系统，并将其制度化，以支持妇女晋升为正教授；(3)实施减少和减轻信息系统协会(AIS)及其成员内部隐藏和隐性偏见的最佳做法。总而言之，这些活动将促进行动，并围绕支持妇女晋升为正教授的努力促进问责制。预期的结果将是在AIS、其流程和政策中增加性别平等，以及更多的女性教职员工被提升为正教授。此外，由于该项目包括各种不同的协会成员，它将有助于建立关于性别平等以及性别与信息技术学术职业中其他身份的交集的研究知识库，如种族和性行为。通过与成功的计划合作，并调整现有的高级计划支持的资源和最佳实践，将获得更大的影响。Impact IT模式将被广泛传播，并可作为寻求增加女性晋升为高等教育正教授的其他协会的榜样。AIS才刚刚开始努力解决IS领域中女性和代表不足的少数群体的系统性劣势，特别是在他们晋升为正教授的努力中。造成这一现象的一个主要原因是缺乏关于AIS成员的全面人口统计数据，包括AIS中的妇女和少数族裔人数。由于缺乏数据，很难追踪AIS支持妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔成员的努力的成功或失败。该项目的独特之处在于，它建立在预先拨款的先前研究基础上。此外，它还使人们更深入地了解STEM协会如何让其领导层和成员参与进来，以提高妇女和代表不足的少数群体在正教授职级中的代表性和地位。NSF高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员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、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“伙伴关系”奖为STEM专业协会与学术和非学术非营利组织之间的合作提供支持，旨在扩大基于证据的公平战略的实施，并具有国家或地区影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。