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、综合性大学的STEM部门的性别不平等问题，这是实施预付赠款的独特背景。2018年，威斯康星大学(UW)系统经历了重组过程。作为美国最大的公立高等教育系统之一，拥有约16.5万名学生和3.9万名教职员工，其影响是广泛的。威斯康星大学奥什科什大学(UWO)先期项目的目标包括：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2021年气候调查中发现的气候问题的认识并进行培训；对STEM部门任期、续签和晋升(TRP)政策进行公平审查；为教职员工和教学人员制定TRP路线图；以及协助各部门制定新的/修订后的、公平的政策和程序，以改善部门氛围。该项目将使用来自NSF高级获奖者、战略工具包、ADVANCEGeo改造工作场所项目的几项战略，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。该项目将增加知识库，了解如何通过改变一个经历了预算削减、教学负担增加、入学人数下降、学费冻结和重组的组织的部门气候和政策，来监测和促进STEM的跨部门性别平等。项目成果将在包括类似机构的威斯康星大学系统内战略性地传播。此外，还将通过同行评议的期刊和相关的会议报告，以及向社区、州和国家利益攸关方分享成果。拟议的活动旨在解决现有政策和程序中存在的不公平现象，以留住并最终招聘更多不同的科技教育专业教员和教员。考虑到预计将有25%的终身STEM教师可能在10-15年内从华盛顿大学退休，这项工作尤其紧迫。国家科学基金会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。 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。 高级适应奖为适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持，以适应学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术机构，非营利组织。该奖项反映了NSF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 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.