ADVANCE Adaptation: Intersectionality and Mentoring in the Professoriate for Advancement, Community, and Transformation (IMPACT)

该格鲁吉亚州立大学（GSU）先进的项目影响（跨部门和辅导教授的进步，社区，和转型）将实施旨在增加妇女的数量，特别是代表性不足的少数民族妇女，谁是招聘，晋升，并保留在干终身职位和GSU的领导。IMPACT将适应并建立在佛罗里达国际大学所展示的一系列活动的基础上，以有效地产生系统性的变化，促进在终身制轨道上招聘和保留STEM教师职位的女性。教师多样性有利于劳动力，国家竞争力和繁荣，是国家社会正义的关键。IMPACT旨在通过从DEI学者，几十年的ADVANCE计划中吸取的教训，以及GSU领导层对促进教师多样性的坚定承诺，改变GSU的文化景观。该项目旨在：1）使招聘战略和战术制度化，以提高多样性和卓越性（STRIDE）培训，以促进公平和公正的招聘，并增加培训的交叉内容，2）提供旁观者领导力培训，以提高对隐性偏见和微攻击的认识，以及在发生时打断它们的技能，3）提供一个大学范围内的教师指导计划，针对教师在所有职业阶段，和4）制度化的政策审查，倡导多样性，公平和包容性（DEI），最初的重点是公平的服务分配和教师审查过程。IMPACT活动将通过提供一个独特的试验平台，调查这些活动在大型R1少数民族服务城市机构中的功效，为增加教师多样性的机构解决方案的知识体系做出贡献，并将提供在这种环境中有效/无效战略的经验教训。此外，IMPACT将通过增加教师招聘培训的交叉内容来推进DEI的工作和奖学金。该项目包括一项全面的宣传计划，以广泛传播IMPACT的活动、调查结果和资源。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定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、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。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。

The Georgia State University (GSU) ADVANCE project IMPACT (Intersectionality and Mentoring in the Professoriate for Advancement, Community, and Transformation) will implement practices aimed at increasing the number of women, particularly underrepresented minority women, who are recruited, promoted, and retained in STEM tenure track positions and GSU leadership. IMPACT will adapt and build upon a suite of activities demonstrated by Florida International University to effectively produce systemic changes that promote the recruitment and retention of women in STEM faculty positions on the tenure track. Faculty diversity benefits the workforce, national competitiveness, and prosperity and is critical for national social justice.IMPACT aims to transform the cultural landscape at GSU by profiting from lessons learned from DEI scholars, decades of ADVANCE initiatives, and the strong commitment of GSU leadership to promote faculty diversity. The project aims to 1) institutionalize Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) training for fair and equitable recruitment and increase the intersectional content of the training, 2) provide bystander leadership training to promote awareness of implicit bias and microaggressions and skills to interrupt them when they occur, 3) offer a university-wide faculty mentoring program that targets faculty at all career stages, and 4) institutionalize policy review that advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), with an initial focus on equitable service allocation and faculty review processes. IMPACT activities will contribute to the body of knowledge of institutional solutions for increasing faculty diversity by offering a unique testbed for investigating the efficacy of these activities in a large R1 minority-serving urban institution and will provide lessons learned on effective/ineffective strategies in this setting. Additionally, IMPACT will advance DEI efforts and scholarship by increasing the intersectional content available for faculty recruitment training. The project includes a comprehensive communication plan to disseminate IMPACT activities, findings, and resources widely. 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.