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

内华达州立大学（NSC）追求公平以提高留校率（PEER）项目将通过交叉视角解决女性和代表性不足的少数民族教师的工作量差异问题，在教学密集型机构中建立对奖学金的制度支持。NSC是一所少数族裔服务机构（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）的指定，属于刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）管辖范围。无形服务对女性和其他代表性不足的教员的影响尤为严重。PEER项目将适应和实施以证据为基础的系统性变革，通过创造透明的工作量，以及提供奖学金和心理社会支持，提高教师的工作满意度、研究/出版和任期/晋升，来解决STEM领域女性的交叉性和反向权力动态。该项目的结果将有助于告知在MSI中支持有色人种女性的最佳实践。PEER项目的具体目标是解决NSC女性和少数族裔STEM教师所面临的三个制度挑战，包括：1)不公平的服务和教学负担，2)对无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项目的目标包括：1)通过制定教师工作量仪表板和部门公平计划来改善同伴公平，以确保教学和服务负荷的公平分配；2)通过制定和实施学术政策来减轻工作量不平衡并奖励无形的服务，从而提高同伴的认可度；3)通过修改和加强现有的服务来加强同伴支持机制，这些服务优先考虑教师身份的专业发展和协作指导，以提高STEM的归属感和奖学金生产率。PEER项目将支持所有女性和历史上代表性不足的STEM教师的全面参与，并将消除学术界的制度障碍。该项目将通过培养核心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，这些活动可以提高教师的保留率和研究能力，这可以通过获得校外资金、同行评审的出版物和职业寿命来证明。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。

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.