ADVANCE Adaptation: American University Creating Gender and Racial Equity Among STEM Faculty

ADVANCE 适应：美国大学在 STEM 教师中创造性别和种族平等

• 批准号: 2204125
• 负责人: Monica Jackson
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: American University
• 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: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Adaptation; American; University; Creating

The American University (AU) ADVANCE Adaptation project will improve the professional and academic environment for all faculty with a focus on the retention of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (URM) faculty in STEM fields. This focus is informed by prior work done with an ADVANCE Catalyst grant, which showed that changes to faculty hiring practices were achieving increased diversity in new faculty, but departures of diverse faculty, particularly URM women was a major issue. The Catalyst work also found inequitable experiences and support for faculty on term and tenure-track career pathways. Thus, the ADVANCE AU project focuses on improving the overall academic climate for women and URM faculty in STEM including tenure track, tenured, and term faculty. The goals of the project are to: 1. Enhance faculty mentoring through training for both mentors and mentees; 2. Review and revise department level policies with “Boyer-inspired” tenure, promotion, and reappointment reforms; 3. Elevate, recognize, and reward the diversity, equity, and inclusion work done by AU faculty through various strategies; and 4. Create an institutional administrative position with responsibilities for faculty diversity and equity in the provost office.The ADVANCE AU project will clarify existing policies and develop and execute new tenure, promotion, and reappointment guidelines that integrate inclusive and antiracist principles. This and other aspects of the project are expected to increase STEM faculty feelings of belongingness in their departments and at AU. The Boyer-inspired framework, selected to combat the “teaching versus research” dichotomy, categorizes faculty work into four distinct but overlapping functions: 1) the scholarship of discovery; 2) the scholarship of integration; 3) the scholarship of application; and 4) the scholarship of teaching. The utilization of the framework is expected to increase the visibility of non-traditional faculty work and to expand the definition of faculty work as related to tenure and promotion. Findings from the project are expected to shed light on how to engage academic leaders in important and “difficult conversations” about the perpetuation of racial and gender inequities via policies and practices in programs and departments. 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.

美国大学（Au）ADVANCE适应项目将改善所有教师的专业和学术环境，重点是保留STEM领域的女性和代表性不足的种族和少数民族（URM）教师。这一重点是由以前的工作所做的先进的催化剂赠款，这表明，教师招聘做法的变化，实现了新的教师的多样性增加，但不同的教师，特别是URM妇女的离职是一个主要问题。 催化剂的工作还发现不公平的经验和支持教师的任期和终身职业道路。因此，先进Au项目的重点是改善妇女和URM教师在STEM的整体学术氛围，包括终身教职，终身教职和长期教职。该项目的目标是：1。通过对导师和学员的培训加强教师指导; 2.审查和修订部门层面的政策与“博耶启发”的任期，晋升和重新任命的改革; 3。提升，承认，并通过各种策略奖励由Au教师所做的多样性，公平性和包容性工作;和4。在教务长办公室设立一个负责教师多样性和公平的机构行政职位。ADVANCE Au项目将澄清现有政策，制定和执行新的终身教职、晋升和重新任命指导方针，其中纳入包容性和反种族主义原则。 该项目的这一点和其他方面预计将增加他们的部门和Au的STEM教师的幸福感。 博耶启发的框架，选择打击“教学与研究”二分法，将教师工作分为四个不同但重叠的功能：1）发现的奖学金; 2）整合的奖学金; 3）应用的奖学金;和4）教学的奖学金。该框架的利用预计将增加非传统的教师工作的知名度，并扩大教师工作的定义有关的任期和晋升。该项目的调查结果有望阐明如何通过方案和部门的政策和做法，让学术领导人参与关于种族和性别不平等永久化的重要和“困难的对话”。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“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。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。