Adaptation: Empower through Inclusivity: Developing Pathways to Success

适应：通过包容性赋予权力：开辟成功之路

• 批准号: 2121601
• 负责人: Lisa Kunza
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• 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: 2021-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121601&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Adaptation; Empower; through; Inclusivity; Developing

An NSF ADVANCE adaptation award will allow the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDM) to initiate new programs and improve upon existing data collection and personnel policy to enhance gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. SDM is a PhD granting engineering science and technology university that is geographically isolated, surrounded by counties in the region considered frontier and remote (FAR) areas having populations of less than 7 people per square mile. Its size (2700 students, 145 faculty), location, and STEM focus provide challenges with respect to retention of a diverse faculty. Our intent for this project will be to empower SDM faculty and research staff by shifting from a culture of attrition to a culture of development and engaging the majority populations of faculty at SDM to increase awareness of implicit biases, promote pathways to success for all faculty, and improve campus culture and climate. Through careful curation and adaptation of successful ADVANCE initiatives, the project aims to enable a change in institutional culture. The project design is rooted in an understanding of the current climate and needs of the SDM faculty, including instructors and research professionals. The merit of the project is that it engages top-down support for programs that will have a marked impact on campus climate allowing for a transition from a culture of attrition to a culture of development. To improve retention of underrepresented groups, the project intends to include adaptation of three proven programs: Advocates and Allies (NDSU), facilitated mentoring circles (Murray State), and Mutual Mentoring (UMass). These programs are structured to include feedback to improve policy, involve expert advisors and evaluators, and are rooted in an enhanced plan for data collection and analysis. This project aims to directly address the need to improve the participation of women in STEM fields by providing programs to increase retention and career advancement at a Science and Engineering Specialty School in an EPSCoR state that serves a FAR region. Planned activities will not only benefit women tenure-track faculty but will be made available to individuals in other career paths (instructional and research staff), to all genders, and to all ethnicities/races represented on campus. These efforts also will lead to improved educational opportunities for students to learn with a diverse faculty with members fully engaged in campus culture. Best practices from SDM efforts will be made available to other institutions in the state, including the other five institutions in the Board of Regents system, three tribal colleges/universities, and two private universities. 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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education as well as non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.

NSF ADVANCE适应性奖将允许南达科他州矿业与技术学院（SDM）启动新项目，改进现有的数据收集和人事政策，以增强性别、种族和民族多样性。SDM是一所授予博士学位的工程科学技术大学，它在地理上是孤立的，被被认为是边境和偏远（FAR）地区的县所包围，每平方英里的人口不到7人。它的规模（2700名学生，145名教职员工）、地理位置和STEM重点为留住多元化的教职员工带来了挑战。我们这个项目的目的是让SDM的教职员工和研究人员从流失文化转向发展文化，并让SDM的大多数教职员工参与进来，提高对隐性偏见的认识，为所有教职员工提供通往成功的途径，改善校园文化和氛围。通过精心策划和适应成功的ADVANCE计划，该项目旨在改变制度文化。项目设计植根于对SDM教师（包括教师和研究专业人员）当前气候和需求的理解。该项目的优点在于，它采用自上而下的支持方式，支持那些将对校园氛围产生显著影响的项目，从而实现从消耗文化向发展文化的转变。为了提高对代表性不足群体的保留，该项目打算包括三个经过验证的项目：倡导者和盟友（NDSU），促进指导圈（默里州）和相互指导（UMass）。这些项目的结构包括改进政策的反馈意见，有专家顾问和评估人员参与，并以加强数据收集和分析计划为基础。该项目旨在通过提供项目来提高EPSCoR州的科学与工程专业学校的保留率和职业发展，直接解决提高女性在STEM领域参与度的需求，该学校服务于FAR地区。计划中的活动不仅将使女性终身教职员工受益，还将向其他职业道路上的个人（教学和研究人员）、所有性别和校园中所有种族/种族的人提供服务。这些努力还将为学生提供更好的教育机会，让他们与充分参与校园文化的多元化教师一起学习。SDM的最佳实践将提供给该州的其他机构，包括评议委员会系统中的其他五所机构，三所部落学院/大学和两所私立大学。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“适应”奖为高等教育的学术、非营利机构以及非学术、非营利组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。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。

项目成果

WIP: Serendipity and Synergy in Promoting Equity

WIP：促进公平的偶然性和协同作用

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
• 作者: Surovek, Andrea;Long-Fox, Brooke;Williams, Arley;Kunza, Lisa;Racz, S. Elizabeth
• 通讯作者: Racz, S. Elizabeth