ADVANCE Partnership: Promoting Equity and Inclusion to Facilitate Retention of Faculty through Evidence- and Place-Based Intervention Training

加州大学滨江分校（UCR）合作NSF ADVANCE伙伴关系项目（COE ADVANCE）旨在发展一种组织文化和氛围，更好地促进工程学院的公平和包容。这将通过建立对排斥行为的认识和理解以及通过旁观者培训进行有效干预来实现。该项目将影响整个加州大学（UC）系统的工程学院（COE）的个人和组织变革，从加州大学河滨分校的伯恩斯工程学院（BCOE）开始，通过与加州大学工程学院院长理事会的合作，扩展到所有其他加州大学COE。 项目目标包括：（1）提高个人和组织对整个UC系统COE内文化和气候的认识和理解，特别是因为它们影响女性和交叉性的背景下;（2）从部门和学院发展组织领导者，盟友和共谋者，为所有教师提供旁观者干预培训，并为促进公平和包容的行为树立榜样;（3）授权教师应用旁观者干预策略，促进积极的组织文化和氛围，鼓励公平的态度，并促进系统性变革;（4）阐明代表性不足的教师和代表性过高的教师之间的变革阻力的交叉经验。 该项目与ADVANCEGeo合作：从课堂到现场：改善地球科学工作场所（#1725879）和NSF包括：利用现场活动网络进行协作变革（#1835055）项目。COE ADVANCE项目将带来：（1）工程学院在整个UC系统中对识别和解决排斥性做法的策略的理解和采用有所增加;（2）可以在多种高等教育环境中使用的干预模型，以促进STEM教师，员工和学生的公平和包容;（3）来自整个UC系统COE内各部门的组织领导者网络，他们致力于建模公平和包容，并与AdvanceGEO和INCLUDES合作伙伴及其网络相连;和（4）整个UC系统的COE教师的文化和气候得到改善。支持系统性和可持续性变革的该项目的重要内容包括：在学院，大学和UC系统层面的领导参与;部门内的组织领导者作为盟友和同谋者的发展;通过部门集中培训（培训培训师模型）的教师赋权。将通过与AdvanceGEO和NSF INCLUDES项目的伙伴关系，编制培训材料和研究方法。这些项目伙伴带来了在基于地点的背景下应用这些方法的经验。 COE ADVANCE研究方法，数据，可交付成果和成果将有助于增加关于旁观者干预计划的知识和出版文献，以及促进学术界公平和包容的努力。虽然COE ADVANCE侧重于STEM教师的包容性，但组织文化和氛围的系统性转变也将对学生和员工产生积极影响。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构中多元化教师充分参与和发展的组织障碍来促进性别平等。抑制公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策，ADVANCE“伙伴关系”奖为那些扩大基于证据的系统性变革战略以提高STEM教师区域或国家性别平等的项目提供支持。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。

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Collaborative NSF ADVANCE Partnership project (COE ADVANCE) aims at developing an organizational culture and climate that better promote equity and inclusion for engineering faculty. This will be achieved by building awareness and understanding of exclusionary behaviors and enabling effective intervention through bystander training. This project will affect individual and organizational change in Colleges of Engineering (COEs) across the University of California (UC) system, starting in the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) at UCR and expanding to all other UC COEs, through a partnership with the UC Engineering Deans’ Council. The project objectives include: (1) Increase individual and organizational awareness and understanding of the culture and climate within COEs across the UC system, particularly as they affect women and in the context of intersectionality; (2) Develop organizational leaders, allies, and coconspirators from the departments and colleges to provide bystander intervention training for all faculty and to model behaviors that promote equity and inclusion; (3) Empower faculty to apply bystander intervention strategies that promote positive organizational culture and climate, encourage equitable attitudes, and facilitate systemic change; and (4) Elucidate the intersectional experiences of underrepresented faculty and resistance to change among overrepresented faculty. This project is in partnership with the ADVANCEGeo: From the Classroom to the Field: Improving the Workplace in the Geosciences (#1725879) and NSF INCLUDES: Leveraging Field- Campaign Networks for Collaborative Change (#1835055) projects.The COE ADVANCE project will result in: (1) An increased understanding and adoption of strategies by engineering faculty across the UC system for identifying and addressing exclusionary practices; (2) An intervention model that can be used in multiple higher education contexts to promote equity and inclusion of STEM faculty, staff, and students; (3) A network of organizational leaders from departments within COEs across the UC system who are committed to modeling equity and inclusion, and who are connected to the AdvanceGEO and INCLUDES partners and their networks; and (4) An improved culture and climate for COE faculty across the UC system. Important elements in this project for supporting systemic and sustainable change include: engagement of leadership at the College, University, and UC System levels; development of organizational leaders within departments as allies and co-conspirators; and faculty empowerment through department-centralized training (train-the-trainer model). Training materials and research methods will be developed through the partnerships with the AdvanceGEO and NSF INCLUDES projects. These project partners bring experience in applying such approaches in a place-based context. The COE ADVANCE research methods, data, deliverables, and outcomes will contribute to a growing body of knowledge and published literature on bystander intervention programs, as well as on efforts to promote equity and inclusion in academia. Although COE ADVANCE focuses on inclusion for STEM faculty, systemic shifts in organizational culture and climate will also positively affect students and staff.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 for projects that scale-up evidence based systemic change strategies to enhance gender equity for STEM faculty regionally or nationally.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.