ADVANCE Partnership: Assessing Differential Faculty Contributions and Aligning Faculty Advancement with Mission Values

冈萨加大学（Gonzaga University）、圣路易斯大学（Saint Louis University）和西雅图大学（Seattle University）这三所合作院校提议修改教员晋升流程，使其更加全面，并与他们共同的耶稣会使命保持一致。该项目将提高教师和管理人员对更广泛、更具包容性的教师贡献的认可，开发一个工具来分配和评估这些活动的价值，并提供有针对性的教师发展，以适应新认识的教师职业道路范围。该项目建立在西雅图大学在先前的ADVANCE机构转型奖（NSF 1629875）中使用的参与式行动研究（PAR）模型的基础上。该项目修订了晋升指导方针，明确纳入了对学生、大学和社区至关重要且有益的被低估的活动，但传统上在STEM教师任期和晋升过程中并未考虑这些活动。该项目在两个合作机构内部启动了类似的结构变化，同时也开发了一个工具包来评估教师所做的这些被低估的活动。该项目的长期目标是在耶稣会学院和大学协会（AJCU）的28个机构成员中鼓励这种文化变革。项目活动将产生一套工具，用于对传统上被低估的教师活动进行评价和评价，其他类型的机构，包括为少数民族服务的机构和其他类似的综合性机构也可以采用这套工具。高等教育普遍需要STEM教师评估措施，这些措施与机构需要完成的所有活动相一致，以满足其教育、研究和社区使命。一致的评估措施是至关重要的，因为许多这些活动通常是由女性、在STEM中代表性不足的种族或族裔群体的成员或两者兼而有之的教师完成的。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。

The three partner institutions, Gonzaga University, Saint Louis University, and Seattle University propose to revise faculty advancement processes to be more comprehensive and aligned with their shared Jesuit mission. The project will increase recognition by faculty and administrators of a broader, more inclusive range of faculty contributions, develop a toolkit for assigning merit to and evaluating these activities and provide intentional faculty development to align with the newly recognized range of faculty career pathways. This project builds on the Participatory Action Research (PAR) Model used by Seattle University in a prior ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award (NSF 1629875). That project resulted in revised guidelines for promotion that explicitly incorporated under-valued activities that are essential and beneficial to students, universities, and communities yet are not traditionally considered during STEM faculty tenure and promotion processes. This project initiates similar structural changes within the two partnering institutions while also developing a toolkit to evaluate these under-valued activities done by faculty. A long-term goal of the project is to encourage this type of cultural change across the twenty-eight institutional members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). Project activities will result in a toolkit for assigning merit to and evaluating traditionally under-valued faculty activities, which can be adapted by other types of institutions, including minority-serving institutions and other similar comprehensive institutions. There is a widespread need in higher education for STEM faculty evaluation measures that align with the full range of activities institutions need to complete to meet their educational, research, and community missions. Aligned evaluation measures are essential since many of these activities are often done by faculty identifying as women, members of a racial or ethnic group that is underrepresented in STEM, or both.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.