ADVANCE Partnership: Transforming HSI STEM Departmental Climate for Faculty Success

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：转变 HSI STEM 部门氛围以促进教师成功

• 批准号: 2204577
• 负责人: Ala Qubbaj
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 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=2204577&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Transforming; HSI; STEM

Latinas represent one of the fastest-growing populations in the US, yet Latina faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers remain underrepresented. Departmental and institutional environments must welcome and foster the engagement and career development of Latina faculty to be successful in academia. This project recognizes the importance of academic departmental climates in the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Latinas. The anticipated STEM department climate transformation focuses on equipping department chairs and their change teams with the resources needed to transform their departments' cultures into psychologically healthy workplaces for Latina and other underrepresented minority faculty. The project leverages the influence, expertise, and resources embedded within a multifaceted, multi-organizational partnership of academic and professional organizations and strategically draws on the knowledge and insights gained from, but not limited to, NSF-ADVANCE projects. The project is designed to facilitate broader adaptation of evidence-based gender equity and systemic change strategies, resulting in more diverse and inclusive STEM academic workplaces and professions. By diversifying STEM faculty, our project aspires to enhance the STEM pipeline, improve student outcomes, and ultimately strengthen the U.S. STEM workforce and global competitiveness.The goal of this project is to transform STEM departmental climates and cultures into psychologically healthy workplaces where Latina faculty can thrive in ways that maximize their scholarly productivity and advancement. The project scope encompasses four objectives, and related activities: 1) expose department change leaders to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) information and evidence-based practices via a newly created Advancing Latina Faculty in STEM Community of Practice (CoP); 2) engage STEM department change leaders in an annual spring Advancing Latina Faculty in STEM Summit for networking and resource sharing; 3) enable annual cohorts of STEM department chair-led change teams to transform their departments through intensive work guided by experienced facilitators/coaches; and 4) examine via social science research how empowerment-driven healthy workplace intervention programs for department chairs lead to improved diversity, climate, well-being, and productivity for Latinas in STEM. Implementing and applying strategies through the community of practice and department chair intervention will sharpen knowledge regarding the critical and influential factors that facilitate or hinder the success of Latina STEM faculty. Our broad partnership will disseminate information to various stakeholders on best practices to create and sustain inclusive and supportive climates for Latina STEM faculty. 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.

拉丁裔是美国增长最快的人口之一，但科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业的拉丁裔教师仍然代表性不足。部门和机构环境必须欢迎和促进拉丁教师的参与和职业发展，在学术界取得成功。该项目认识到学术部门的气候在招聘，保留和拉丁美洲的进步的重要性。预期的STEM部门气候转型的重点是装备部门主席和他们的变革团队所需的资源，将其部门的文化转变为拉丁裔和其他代表性不足的少数民族教师的心理健康的工作场所。该项目利用嵌入在学术和专业组织的多方面，多组织合作伙伴关系中的影响力，专业知识和资源，并从战略上借鉴从但不限于NSF-ADVANCE项目中获得的知识和见解。该项目旨在促进更广泛地适应基于证据的性别平等和系统性变革战略，从而使STEM学术工作场所和专业更加多样化和包容。通过多元化的STEM教师，我们的项目渴望加强STEM管道，提高学生的成绩，并最终加强美国. STEM劳动力和全球竞争力.这个项目的目标是将STEM部门的气候和文化转化为心理健康的工作场所，拉丁裔教师可以茁壮成长的方式，最大限度地提高他们的学术生产力和进步.该项目的范围包括四个目标和相关活动：1）通过新创建的实践社区（CoP）推进STEM拉丁系教师，使部门变革领导者接触多样性，公平性和包容性（DEI）信息和基于证据的实践; 2）在一年一度的春季推进STEM拉丁系教师峰会上，让STEM部门变革领导者参与网络和资源共享; 3）使STEM部门主席领导的变革团队的年度队列，通过有经验的促进者/教练指导下的密集工作来改造他们的部门;和4）通过社会科学研究来检查部门主席的授权驱动的健康工作场所干预计划如何导致改善多样性，气候，福祉和生产力为拉丁美洲人在STEM。通过实践和部门主席干预社区实施和应用策略将提高对促进或阻碍拉丁STEM教师成功的关键和有影响力的因素的认识。我们广泛的合作伙伴关系将传播信息的最佳做法，以创造和维持包容性和支持性的气候为拉丁美洲STEM教师的各种利益相关者。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“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。