ADVANCE Adaptation: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Three Campuses, One Institution

该项目旨在解决STEM部门的性别不平等问题，该部门是一所最近整合，重组，多校区，综合性大学，这是一个独特的背景下，将实施ADVANCE赠款。在2018年，威斯康星州（UW）系统的大学经历了重组过程。作为全国最大的公立高等教育系统之一，拥有约165，000名学生和39，000名教职员工，其影响是广泛的。该威斯康星州奥什科什（UWO）先进项目的大学的目标包括：开发一个基于网络的仪表板，用于跟踪三个校区的进展和透明度;创建意识和培训，以解决在2021年气候调查中发现的气候问题;进行STEM部门任期，更新和推广（TRP）政策的公平审查;为教师和教学人员建立TRP路线图;协助各部门制定新的/修订的、公平的政策和程序，以改善部门气氛。该项目将使用来自NSF ADVANCE获奖者、StratEGIC工具包、ADVANCEGeo改造工作场所项目的多项战略，以及校长关于工作/生活平衡的研究中概述的有针对性的最佳实践。该项目将通过在经历了预算削减的组织中改变部门气候和政策，增加教学负担，降低入学率，冻结学费和重组。项目结果将在华盛顿大学系统内进行战略传播，其中包括情况类似的机构。此外，研究结果将通过同行评审期刊和相关会议报告，并向社区，州和国家利益相关者分享。拟议的活动旨在解决政策和程序中存在的不公平现象，以保留并最终招募更高比例的多元化STEM教师和讲师。考虑到预计25%的STEM终身教职员工可能在10-15年内从UWO退休，这是一项特别紧迫的工作。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过关注识别和消除阻碍学术机构多元化教师充分参与和发展的组织障碍来促进性别平等。过程，做法，以及组织文化和气候。先进的“适应”奖提供支持，适应和采用基于证据的战略，以学术，非营利高等教育机构以及非学术，非该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。

The project is designed to address gender inequities in STEM departments at a recently integrated, restructured, multi-campus, comprehensive University, which is a unique context for an ADVANCE grant to be implemented. In 2018, the University of Wisconsin (UW) System underwent a restructuring process. As one of the largest systems of public higher education in the nation, with ~165,000 students and 39,000 faculty and staff, the impacts were wide-reaching. The goals of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO) ADVANCE project include: developing a web-based dashboard for tracking progress and transparency on the three campuses; creating awareness of and training to address the climate issues uncovered in the 2021 Climate Survey; conducting an equity review of STEM departmental tenure, renewal, and promotion (TRP) policies; establishing roadmaps for TRP for faculty and instructional staff; and aiding departments in creating new/revised, equitable policies and procedures to improve department climates. The project will use several strategies from NSF ADVANCE awardees, StratEGIC Toolkit, the ADVANCEGeo Transforming the Workplace Project, as well as targeted best practices outlined in the Chancellor’s Study on Work/Life Balance.The project will add to the knowledge base on how to monitor and advance intersectional gender equity in STEM by transforming departmental climates and policies in an organization that has experienced budget cuts, increasing teaching loads, dropping enrollment, tuition freezes, and restructuring. The project results will be strategically disseminated within the UW system which includes similarly situated institutions. In addition, results will be shared through peer-reviewed journals and relevant conference presentations, and to the community, state, and national stakeholders. The proposed activities are intended to address existing inequities in policies and procedures to retain and eventually recruit a higher proportion of diverse STEM faculty and instructors. This is especially urgent work given the anticipation that 25% of tenured STEM faculty will likely retire from UWO within 10-15 years.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.