ADVANCE Adaptation: Enabling Minorities’ Prime Outcomes with Education & Research (EMPOWER) at Florida Atlantic University

缺乏包容性和多样化的STEM教员严重损害了STEM劳动力的教育，因为缺乏榜样来帮助在西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)教育不同的学生群体。人口统计学上没有代表性的科学也可能对社区和社会需要的领域的研究产生负面影响和忽视。之前的NSF高级催化剂资金提供了大量的知识，并启动了招聘流程的变化。然而，在招聘、保留和晋升方面对任职人数不足和跨界别的少数群体提供包容性支持，将对机构格局和文化产生重大影响。NSF高级适应奖将使佛罗里达大西洋大学能够采取新的举措，在当前政策和数据收集活动的基础上，将FAU转变为一个公平、包容和多样化的学术教学和研究场所。该项目将寻求推进：(1)为多样化招聘提供自我维持的干预措施；(2)透明和公平的政策；(3)通过纵向人口统计数据仪表盘提供信息；(4)战略沟通。这些干预措施将侧重于对性别多样性和跨界别少数群体(最明显的是拉丁裔和非洲裔美国妇女)在招聘、留住和晋升方面的包容性支持。这一进程将采用姐妹先行机构的循证做法和创新。为协助体制一体化和长期可持续性，项目组将优先考虑那些将在预先支助下启动并与持续努力和现有体制基础设施协同作用的做法。该项目的具体目标是：1)开展循证研究，以扫描和确定不公平的政策、这些政策彼此之间的关系及其随时间的变化；2)开发一个可复制和可转让的程序，以建立政策数据库(网站门户由两个关键部分组成--一个开放获取部分，允许政策透明，另一个受保护的部分，供内部使用，目的是标明不公平)；以及(3)一个可扩展的纵向教师仪表盘，用于收集股权的长期趋势。该项目将把能力集中在复杂系统和数据科学上，以确定影响系统变化的相互关联的因素。这将通过自适应分析方法来完成，这些方法能够处理随着时间的推移在多个层面上动态交互的大量变量。这一机构改革项目的成功实施旨在培养一支更具代表性和参与性的STEM教员队伍，并加快机构在教育和研究方面的竞争力。这一转变的关键结果将是缓解STEM劳动力短缺，并对当地行业(特别是生物技术、航空航天、健康、老龄化、农业、国际贸易、海洋环境、信息技术和安全以及金融服务)产生影响。该项目得到了HSI计划的共同资助。HSI项目旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。考虑到HSIS的不同性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区的变革，并促进基础研究(I)参与学生的学习，(Ii)关于如何使STEM多样化并有效地增加参与，以及(Iii)提高我们对如何建设HSIS机构能力的理解。NSF高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教员充分参与和提升学术机构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 absence of an inclusive and diverse STEM faculty significantly hurts the education of a STEM workforce by the lack of role models to help educate the diverse group of students at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Demographically unrepresentative science can also negatively impact and neglect research in areas that communities and societies need. Prior NSF ADVANCE CATALYST funding provided significant knowledge and initiated changes in the hiring processes. However, inclusive support for underrepresented and intersectional minorities in hiring, retention, and promotion will make a significant difference in the institutional landscape and culture. An NSF ADVANCE adaptation award will allow Florida Atlantic University to undertake new initiatives, build on current policies and data collection activities, and transform FAU into an equitable, inclusive, and diverse place of academic teaching and research. This project will seek to advance: (1) self-sustaining interventions for diverse hiring; (2) transparent and equitable policies, (3) information through a longitudinal demographic data dashboard of faculty; and (4) strategic communications. These interventions will focus on inclusive support for gender diversity and intersectional minorities (most visibly, Latina and African American women) in hiring, retention, and promotion. The process will adapt evidence-based practices and innovations from sister ADVANCE institutions. To aid institutional integration and long-term sustainability, the project team will prioritize practices that will be bootstrapped with ADVANCE support and synergized with ongoing efforts and existing institutional infrastructures for diversity.The specific aims of the project are to 1) generate evidence-based research to scan and identify inequitable policies, the relationships that they entertain with each other, and their change over time; 2) develop a reproducible and transferrable process for building a policy database (with a website portal consisting of two key sections- an open-access section that allows for policy transparency and a secured section for internal use aimed at flagging inequity); and (3) a scalable longitudinal faculty dashboard to collect long-term trends in equity. The project will focus the competencies on Complex Systems and Data Science to identify interconnected factors that influence systemic change. This will be done with adaptive analytic approaches that are capable of processing large numbers of variables that dynamically interact on multiple levels over time. The successful implementation of this project for institutional change aims to achieve a more representative and participatory STEM faculty and accelerate institutional competitiveness in education and research. The crucial outcome of this transformation will be the mitigation of STEM workforce shortages with implications for local industries (in particular biotechnologies, aerospace, health, aging, agriculture, international trade, marine environment, information technology and security, and financial services).This project was supported by a co-funding from the HSI Program. The HSI program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs.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 the 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.