ADVANCE Catalyst: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions

ADVANCE Catalyst：STEM 学术界性别平等的组织变革

• 批准号: 2200323
• 负责人: Vernon Harper
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2200323&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Catalyst; Organizational; Change; Gender

As the nation continues to focus on the importance and significance of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educators within higher education, many universities are taking a closer look at their hiring practices and their culture of equity and inclusion. Evidence suggests that a diverse STEM workforce is essential to the education of future scientists. Addressing systemic barriers to developing a diverse and supported STEM faculty, particularly for women and women of color, requires transformative change at all recruitment, promotion, and retention levels. In the interest of emphasizing a focus on intersectionality, we will refer to women, women of color, queer women, and women with intersectional marginalized identities in STEM fields as womxn faculty in STEM. Even though the number of womxn receiving doctorates in the sciences is increasing, research has shown that womxn in academia are less likely than men to be recruited, promoted, and retained in STEM departments. Womxn who become STEM faculty members in tenure-track positions are often promoted slower than men into leadership positions because of a variety of barriers in the workplace. Resistance to programs that attempt to correct gender bias and an inclination to devalue or dismiss research on the biases that womxn in STEM face continue to persist. This situation calls for a transformative approach to an institution's culture. This project aims to increase female-identifying STEM faculty recruitment, hiring, promotion, and retention. This project aims to focus on three goals directly addressing each area of recruitment, retention, and promotion: (1) implement rigorous data tracking for each stage of faculty recruitment and hiring practices, (2) explore perceptions and realities of equity and transparency in faculty teaching and service loads, and (3) review policies and practices related to tenure and promotion to leadership. The project will result in a collaboratively developed five-year plan to enhance and support faculty diversity in STEM at CSUB.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 academic, non-profit institutions 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.

随着国家继续关注高等教育中科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教育工作者多样性的重要性和意义，许多大学正在仔细研究其招聘实践以及公平和包容的文化。有证据表明，多元化的 STEM 劳动力对于未来科学家的教育至关重要。要解决发展多元化和受支持的 STEM 教师队伍的系统性障碍，特别是针对女性和有色人种女性，需要在所有招聘、晋升和保留层面进行变革。为了强调对交叉性的关注，我们将 STEM 领域的女性、有色人种女性、酷儿女性和具有交叉边缘化身份的女性称为 STEM 中的 womxn 教员。尽管获得科学博士学位的女性人数不断增加，但研究表明，学术界的女性在 STEM 部门被招募、晋升和保留的可能性低于男性。由于工作场所存在的各种障碍，成为终身教授职位的 STEM 教员的 Womxn 晋升领导职位的速度通常比男性慢。对试图纠正性别偏见的计划的抵制以及贬低或驳回 STEM 领域女性所面临偏见的研究的倾向仍然持续存在。这种情况需要对机构文化采取变革性的方法。该项目旨在增加女性 STEM 教师的招聘、聘用、晋升和保留。该项目旨在重点关注直接涉及招聘、保留和晋升各个领域的三个目标：（1）对教师招聘和聘用实践的每个阶段实施严格的数据跟踪，（2）探索教师教学和服务负担中公平和透明度的看法和现实，以及（3）审查与任期和晋升领导力相关的政策和实践。该项目将制定一项合作制定的五年计划，以增强和支持 CSUB STEM 领域的教师多样性。 NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构多元化教师充分参与和进步的组织障碍，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。 ADVANCE“催化剂”奖项为学术性、非营利性高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年教员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。