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

缺乏包容性和多元化的STEM教师队伍，严重损害了STEM劳动力的教育，因为缺乏榜样来帮助教育西班牙裔服务机构（hsi）的不同学生群体。人口统计学上不具代表性的科学也会对社区和社会需要的领域的研究产生负面影响和忽视。先前的NSF ADVANCE CATALYST资助提供了重要的知识，并启动了招聘流程的变化。然而，在招聘、保留和晋升方面，对代表性不足和交叉族裔的包容性支持将对制度格局和文化产生重大影响。美国国家科学基金会ADVANCE适应奖将允许佛罗里达大西洋大学开展新的举措，建立在当前政策和数据收集活动的基础上，并将佛罗里达大西洋大学转变为一个公平、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)多元化招聘的自我维持干预；(2)透明和公平的政策；(3)通过教师纵向人口统计数据仪表板提供信息；(4)战略沟通。这些干预措施将侧重于在招聘、保留和晋升方面为性别多样性和交叉少数族裔（最明显的是拉丁裔和非裔美国妇女）提供包容性支持。这一进程将采用姐妹ADVANCE机构的循证实践和创新。为了帮助机构整合和长期可持续性，项目团队将优先考虑在ADVANCE支持下启动的实践，并与正在进行的努力和现有的机构基础设施协同促进多样性。该项目的具体目标是：1)开展基于证据的研究，以扫描和识别不公平的政策、它们之间的关系以及它们随时间的变化；2)制定一个可复制和可转移的流程，用于建立政策数据库（网站门户由两个关键部分组成——一个开放访问部分，允许政策透明，一个安全部分，供内部使用，旨在标记不平等）；(3)一个可扩展的纵向教师仪表板，以收集股权的长期趋势。该项目将侧重于复杂系统和数据科学的能力，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，这种方法能够处理大量的变量，这些变量随着时间的推移在多个层面上动态地相互作用。这一制度变革项目的成功实施旨在实现更具代表性和参与性的STEM教师队伍，并加快教育和研究方面的机构竞争力。这一转变的关键结果将是缓解STEM劳动力短缺问题，并对当地产业（特别是生物技术、航空航天、卫生、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。该项目由HSI计划共同资助。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，扩大STEM参与，并在HSI建立能力。考虑到hsi的多样性和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区转型，并促进基础研究(1)关于参与式学生学习，(2)关于如何有效地使STEM多样化和增加参与，以及(3)提高我们对如何在hsi建立机构能力的理解。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 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.