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

虽然使用社区参与研究（CER）方法的研究由几个联邦机构资助，但CER在更广泛的STEM学科文化中仍然被低估，并且通常在STEM教师年度审查，任期和晋升过程中被归类为“服务”。该项目假定，CER的系统性低估有助于许多教师，确定为妇女和代表性不足的种族和少数民族妇女（URMWF）谁经常进入环境工程（EnvE）的动机，以解决社会上重要的问题的摩擦。这个名为“STEM（空间）社区参与协调战略伙伴关系”的ADVANCE合作项目将提高对严格的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URMWF进行的。这是11个学术机构，EnvE学科的主要专业协会（美国环境工程师科学家学会&，美国气溶胶研究协会，环境工程&科学教授协会，水环境联合会）和NSF通过国家研究培训计划专注于CER的倡议之间的合作努力。SPACES将利用SPACES伙伴关系的优势，在EnvE中性别代表性方面取得的进展，以及正义，公平，多样性，在环境教育和公共卫生领域正在开展的包容性倡议。该项目旨在产生一个结构模型，作为一个机构的记分卡，这将导致更大的教师的成功和专业进展进行CER。该记分卡将纳入因素，形状相关的寿命和自然减员的URMWF教师在EnvE在个人，学科和社会层面的趋势。记分卡有潜力被用于其他工程学科。该项目的目标是：（1）提高环境大学对URMWF的保留和推广;（2）改变气候和基础设施，以支持和重视环境大学学术界的社区参与研究;（3）提高对环境评价研究及其对环境工程学科和社会的价值的理解和认识，NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍不同群体充分参与和发展的组织障碍来促进性别平等。学术机构的教师。 阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖项为学术、非营利高等教育机构和非学术、非营利组织提供支持，以适应和采用循证战略。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.