ADVANCE Partnership: Advancing Gender Equity in Computing and Engineering Academic Professions through Multi-Organization Collaboration

项目组寻求显著推进STEM性别平等的组织变革，特别是在计算机和工程学术专业。最近的数据显示，STEM的终身教职员工中有26%是女性，特别是工程和计算学院的女性比例更低(17%)。在这个项目中，国家妇女和信息技术中心(NCWIT)将与从事工程的妇女主动网络(WEPAN)和Aspire联盟合作，以解决妇女在计算和工程学术工作中面临的系统性障碍。该项目寻求利用集体影响做法，并直接增强全国不同部门的妇女在计算和工程学术工作场所的经验和职业机会。这种方法是通过统一协作提供资源以应对系统性和结构性变化的组织，并针对计算和工程学术工作场所的政策、实践和规范。该项目旨在提高认识，并在高等教育管理人员、教职员工和工作人员中更多地采用有效的、以研究为基础的多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)变革努力，然后他们成为机构变革的领导者。该项目团队计划调整基于证据的资源和计划，以更好、更全面地解决与在多个机构级别(机构、学院、系、项目)的计算和工程工作场所招聘和留住不同领域的女性相关的系统性问题。该项目的主要目标是为创建和广泛使用一个首创的、可扩展的软件决策支持平台奠定基础，该平台专门设计为使计算和工程部门能够实施系统的、可持续的方法，在学术工作场所创建包容性文化。伙伴组织通力合作，力求1)整合其循证资源库；2)根据NCWIT学术工作场所系统性变化模型将这些资源整理成子集；3)建立和扩大一个易于使用的在线平台，其中嵌入经过策划的资源子集，以指导计算和工程部门制定战略性和交叉性的方法，以解决创建包容性文化的系统性障碍；以及4)为计算和工程系部署指导性的、以社区为基础的专业发展和战略规划经验。项目和协作基础设施计划建立在组织变革和相关研究的既定理论基础上。项目团队寻求利用通过有针对性的焦点小组和基于社区的专业发展计划产生的见解，以创建和完善与背景相关的、易于采用的资源，这些资源可以在全国范围内共享。在整个项目中将使用合理的定量和定性评估方法。 高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教师在学术机构充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别公平。NSF高级计划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。 高级合作伙伴奖为那些扩大循证系统性变革战略的项目提供支持，以提高地区或国家STEM教师的性别公平。 高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教师在学术机构充分参与和晋升的组织障碍来促进性别公平。NSF高级计划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。 高级合作伙伴奖为那些扩大基于证据的系统性变革战略的项目提供支持，以增强地区或国家的性别平等。该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project team seeks to significantly advance organizational change for gender equity in STEM, particularly in computing and engineering academic professions. Recent data indicates that 26% of tenured faculty in STEM are women, which dwindles further when specifically looking at engineering and computing faculty (17%). For this project, the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) will partner with the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) and the Aspire Alliance to address the systemic barriers women face in computing and engineering academic workplaces. This project seeks to leverage collective impact practices and directly enhance the experiences and career opportunities of intersectionally diverse women in computing and engineering academic workplaces nationally. The approach is by unifying organizations that collaboratively provide resources to address systemic and structural change and targeting policies, practices, and norms in computing and engineering academic workplaces. The project aims to raise awareness, and increase the adoption of effective, research-based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) change efforts among higher education administrators, faculty, and staff, who then become institutional change leaders. The project team plans to adapt evidence-based resources and programs to better—and more comprehensively—address systemic issues related to recruiting and retaining intersectionally diverse women in computing and engineering workplaces at multiple institutional levels (institution, college, department, program).The primary goal of this project is to lay the foundation for the creation and widespread utilization of a first-of-its-kind, scalable software decision support platform specifically designed to empower computing and engineering departments to implement systemic, sustainable approaches to creating inclusive cultures in the academic workplace. Working together, the partner organizations seek to 1) integrate their evidence-based resource collections; 2) curate these resources into sub-collections aligned with the NCWIT Academic Workplace Systemic Change Model; 3) build out and scale an easy-to-use online platform, which embeds the curated resource sub-collections, to guide computing and engineering departments through the process of developing strategic and intersectional approaches for addressing systemic barriers to creating inclusive cultures; and 4) deploy a guided, community-based professional development and strategic planning experience for computing and engineering departments. The project and collaborative infrastructure plans are based on established theories of organizational change and relevant research. The project team seeks to utilize insights generated through targeted focus groups and a community-based professional development program to enable the creation and refinement of contextually relevant, easily adopted resources that can be shared on a national scale. Sound quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods will be utilized throughout the project.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.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.