ADVANCE Partnership: Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)

尽管使用社区参与研究（CER）方法的研究是由几个联邦机构资助的，但在更广泛的STEM学科文化中，CER仍然被低估，并且在STEM教师年度审查、任期和晋升过程中，CER通常被归类为“服务”。本项目认为，对环境工程的系统性低估导致了许多教师的流失，这些教师被认为是女性和代表性不足的种族和少数民族女性（URMWF），她们经常进入环境工程（EnvE），以解决社会重要问题。这个名为“社区参与STEM（空间）的战略伙伴关系”的ADVANCE伙伴关系项目将加强对严格的CER研究及其对EnvE学科和社会的价值的理解和认识，特别是由ummwf进行的研究。这是由11个学术机构、EnvE学科的主要专业协会（美国环境工程师和科学家学会、美国气溶胶研究协会、环境工程和科学教授协会、水环境联合会）以及美国国家科学基金会通过国家研究培训计划关注CER的一项倡议共同努力的结果。空间将利用空间伙伴关系的力量，在EnvE性别代表性方面取得的成就，以及在EnvE和公共卫生领域正在实施的正义、公平、多样性和包容（JEDI）倡议。该项目旨在建立一个结构模型，作为一个机构记分卡来运作，这将为那些进行CER的教师带来更大的成功和专业进步。记分卡将包括与URMWF在EnvE的教师在个人、学科和社会层面的寿命和流失相关的趋势的因素。记分卡有可能在其他工程学科中使用。该项目的目标是(1)在EnvE中增加URMWF的保留和推广；(2)改变气候和基础设施，以支持和重视EnvE学术界的社区参与研究；(3)提高人们对社会责任研究及其对EnvE学科和社会的价值的理解和认识，特别是由ummwf进行的研究。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“伙伴关系”奖为高等教育的学术、非营利机构和非学术、非营利组织适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持。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。

Although research using community-engaged research (CER) methods is funded by several federal agencies, CER is still undervalued within the broader STEM discipline culture, and often, it is classified as “service” during STEM faculty annual review, tenure, and promotion processes. This project posits that the systemic undervaluation of CER contributes to the attrition of many faculty that identify as women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority women (URMWF) who frequently enter Environmental Engineering (EnvE) motivated to address societally important problems. This ADVANCE Partnership project titled “Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)” will enhance the understanding and awareness of rigorous CER research and its value to the EnvE discipline and society, especially as conducted by URMWF. This is a collaborative effort among 11 academic institutions, EnvE discipline’s primary professional societies (American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists, American Association for Aerosol Research, Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors, Water Environment Federation), and an NSF initiative focused on CER through the National Research Traineeship program.SPACES will leverage the strength of the SPACES partnership, gains made in gender representation in EnvE, as well as the justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives underway in EnvE and public health. The project aims to produce a structural model, operationalized as an institutional scorecard, that will result in greater faculty success and professional progress for those conducting CER. The scorecard will incorporate factors that shape trends related to the longevity and attrition of URMWF faculty in EnvE at the personal, disciplinary, and societal levels. The scorecard has potential to be used in other engineering disciplines. The project goals are to (1) increase the retention and promotion of URMWF in EnvE; (2) transform the climate and infrastructure to support and value community-engaged research in the EnvE academic community; and (3) enhance understanding and awareness of CER research and its value to the EnvE discipline and society, especially as conducted by URMWF.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 "Partnership" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education and 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.