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

该项目旨在解决最近整合，重组，多校区，综合性大学STEM部门的性别不平等问题，这是ADVANCE赠款实施的独特背景。2018年，威斯康星大学（UW）系统经历了重组过程。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。威斯康星大学奥什科什分校（UWO） ADVANCE项目的目标包括：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；提高对气候问题的认识并开展培训，以解决2021年气候调查中发现的气候问题；就STEM部门的任期、续期及晋升政策进行公平检讨；为教师和教学人员制定研究计划的路线图；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NSF ADVANCE获奖项目、StratEGIC Toolkit、ADVANCEGeo改造工作场所项目以及校长关于工作/生活平衡研究中概述的有针对性的最佳实践。该项目将通过改变一个经历了预算削减、教学负担增加、入学率下降、学费冻结和重组的组织的部门气候和政策，增加如何监测和促进STEM领域交叉性别平等的知识基础。项目结果将在西澳大学系统内战略性地传播，该系统包括类似的机构。此外，研究结果将通过同行评议的期刊和相关的会议报告分享给社区、州和国家的利益相关者。拟议的活动旨在解决现有政策和程序中的不平等问题，以保留并最终招募更高比例的不同STEM教师和讲师。考虑到预计在10-15年内，25%的STEM终身教职员工可能会从UWO退休，这是一项特别紧迫的工作。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 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.