ADVANCE Adaptation: Nevada State College - Pursuing Equity to Enhance Retention (PEER)

内华达州立学院(NSC)追求公平以加强留任(PEER)项目将解决女性和代表性不足的少数族裔教职员工的工作量差距问题，使用交叉镜头为教学密集型机构的奖学金建立机构支持。NSC是一家少数族裔服务机构(MSI)，拥有西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)和亚裔美国原住民太平洋岛民服务机构(AANAPSI)的称号，在一个既定的计划中刺激竞争研究(EPSCoR)管辖权。隐形服务对女性和其他代表性不足的教职员工的影响不成比例。PEER项目将调整和实施基于证据的系统性变革，以解决STEM中女性的交叉性问题，并通过创造透明的工作量以及提供奖学金和心理社会支持来扭转权力动态，以提高教师工作满意度、研究/出版和终身教职/晋升。该项目的结果将有助于为在麻省理工学院的STEM中支持有色人种妇女的最佳做法提供信息。PEER项目的具体目标是解决NSC女性和代表不足的少数族裔STEM教师确定的三个机构挑战，包括：1)不公平的服务和教学负担，2)对隐形服务缺乏认可和奖励，以及3)奖学金和职业发展支持不足。为了应对这些挑战，Peer Project的目标包括：1)通过开发教师工作量仪表板和部门公平计划来提高同行公平性，以确保公平分配教学和服务负荷；2)通过制定和实施学术政策来缓解工作量失衡并奖励无形的服务，从而增加同行认可；以及3)通过修订和支持现有的服务来加强同行支持机制，这些服务优先考虑教师身份的专业发展和协作指导，以增加STEM的归属感和学术生产率。PEER项目将支持将所有妇女和历来代表性不足的STEM教职员工纳入其中，并将消除学术界的体制障碍。该项目将通过培养一支核心的STEM教师队伍，对NSC的教学和研究基础设施产生重大影响。预期的项目成果包括项目活动的可行性和有效性的证据基础，这些活动可以改善教师的留住和研究能力，如获得外部资金、同行评议的出版物和职业生涯。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“适应”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利性组织提供调整和采用循证策略的支持。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。

The Nevada State College (NSC) Pursuing Equity to Enhance Retention (PEER) project will address workload disparities in female and underrepresented minority faculty using an intersectional lens to establish institutional support for scholarship at a teaching-intensive institution. NSC is a minority-serving institution (MSI) with Hispanic-Serving (HSI) and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) designations in an Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) jurisdiction. Invisible service disproportionally impacts women and other underrepresented faculty. The PEER project will adapt and implement evidence-based systemic change to address the intersectionality of women in STEM and reverse power dynamics by creating transparent workloads as well as providing scholarship and psychosocial support to improve faculty job satisfaction, research/publication, and tenure/promotion. The results of this project will help inform best practices to support women of color in STEM at a MSI.The specific aims of the PEER Project are to address three institutional challenges identified by female and underrepresented racial minority STEM faculty at NSC, including: 1) inequitable service and teaching loads, 2) lack of recognition and rewards for invisible service, and 3) inadequate scholarship and career development support. To address these challenges, PEER Project objectives include: 1) improving PEER EQUITY via development of faculty workload dashboards and department equity plans to ensure fair distribution of teaching and service loads, 2) increasing PEER RECOGNITION via development and implementation of academic policies that mitigate workload imbalance and reward invisible service, and 3) enhancing PEER SUPPORT mechanisms by revising and bolstering extant services that prioritize professional development and collaborative mentorship for faculty identities to increase belonging and scholarship productivity in STEM. The PEER project will support the full inclusion of all women and historically underrepresented STEM faculty and will disassemble institutional barriers in academia. The project will have a major impact on the teaching and research infrastructures at NSC by developing a core STEM faculty. Expected project outcomes include an evidence base for the feasibility and efficacy of project activities that improve faculty retention and capacity for research, as evidenced by attainment of extramural funding, peer-reviewed publications, and career longevity. 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.