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

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：评估教师的差异化贡献并使教师的进步与使命价值观保持一致

• 批准号: 2204538
• 负责人: Jodi O'Brien
• 金额: $ 99.98万
• 依托单位: Seattle University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Assessing; Differential; Faculty

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.

三个合作机构，贡扎加大学，圣刘易斯大学和西雅图大学建议修改教师的进步过程，以更全面，并与他们共同的耶稣会使命一致。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，开发一个工具包，用于分配价值和评估这些活动，并提供有意的教师发展，以符合新认可的教师职业途径范围。该项目建立在西雅图大学在先前的ADVANCE机构转型奖（NSF 1629875）中使用的渐进行动研究（PAR）模型的基础上。该项目导致修订了促进准则，明确纳入了被低估的活动，这些活动对学生，大学和社区至关重要且有益，但在STEM教师任期和晋升过程中传统上不被考虑。该项目在两个合作机构内启动了类似的结构变革，同时还开发了一个工具包，以评估教师所做的这些被低估的活动。该项目的一个长期目标是鼓励耶稣会学院和大学协会（AJCU）的28个机构成员进行这种类型的文化变革。 项目活动将产生一个工具包，用于对传统上被低估的教师活动进行评优和评价，其他类型的机构，包括为少数群体服务的机构和其他类似的综合性机构，也可以采用该工具包。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各种活动相一致，以满足其教育，研究和社区使命。一致的评估措施是必不可少的，因为这些活动中的许多往往是由教师确定为女性，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。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过专注于识别和消除组织障碍来促进性别平等，这些障碍阻碍了学术机构中多元化教师的充分参与和发展。 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。