Commemorating 20 Years of ADVANCE: Design Thinking Sessions for a Digital Exhibit and Archive

该奖项将召集ADVANCE社区的成员开发和推出纪念NSF ADVANCE 20年的展览和档案的原型。面对面的焦点小组将在2022年ARC网络公平STEM社区会议上举行，该会议是ADVANCE社区的两年一次会议，虚拟焦点小组将紧随会议之后。会议将以集思广益的方式进行，利用设计思维，就展览和档案的内容创作、分发和评估寻求广泛的意见。从2022年社区会议中收集的意见将在之后通过在线焦点小组和参与式网络研讨会进行完善，以接触未出席的ADVANCE社区成员。通过这种方式，更广泛的ADVANCE社区将共同为档案创建框架，从而产生共享所有权。本次会议提案的学术价值在于，其重点在于展示过去20年来设计、实施、评估和研究ADVANCE项目的不同个人的贡献。这项工作旨在捕捉和分享这些团队和个人对STEM性别平等工作的贡献。该项目还将分享关于组织和制度变化如何作为NSF ADVANCE奖的直接结果而发生的知识。这个数字档案的创建和传播旨在通过突出人们在这些活动中的多样化组成和参与来增强所有ADVANCE项目的影响。这包括捕捉参与ADVANCE的人的纵向职业影响。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。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。

This award will convene members of the ADVANCE community to develop and launch prototypes of an exhibit and archive commemorating 20 years of NSF ADVANCE. The in-person focus groups will take place at the 2022 ARC Network Equity in STEM Community Convening, which serves as the biennial meeting of the ADVANCE community, with the virtual focus group immediately following the Convening. The meetings will be conducted as collaborative brainstorming using design thinking to seek broad input on content creation, distribution, and evaluation for the exhibit and archive. Inputs gleaned from the 2022 Community Convening will be refined afterward through an online focus group and participatory webinar to reach those members of the ADVANCE community who were not in attendance. In this way the broader ADVANCE community will co-create the framework for the archive and thereby generate shared ownership.The intellectual merit of this conference proposal lies in its focus on rendering visible the contributions of the diverse individuals that have designed, implemented, evaluated, and researched ADVANCE projects over the last 20 years. This effort is designed to capture and share the contribution of these teams and individuals to gender equity work in STEM. This project will also share knowledge on how organizational and institutional change occurred as a direct result of NSF ADVANCE awards. The creation and dissemination of this digital archive is intended to enhance the impact of all ADVANCE projects by highlighting the diverse composition and participation of people in these activities. This includes capturing the longitudinal career impact on people of having participated in ADVANCE. 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.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.