ADVANCE Catalyst: Reflecting, Assessing, and Improving Intersectional Equitable Practices with STEM Faculty

该项目旨在评估乔治亚格温内特学院（GGC） STEM教师的公平性。GGC成立于2006年，是一所相对年轻的学院，拥有一支庞大、多样化的STEM教师队伍，他们从成立之初就在该学院工作。它有很大比例的教员认为自己是女性（约50%），以及历史上被排除的种族/民族（约18%）。与传统的高等教育机构相比，GGC有几个独特的特点。这个催化剂项目提供了一个独特的机会来了解在短时间内多样化的教师团体的快速发展；调查吸引和留住大量高等教育师资的因素；调查任何可能阻碍他们职业发展的障碍。GGC大量的HE STEM教师为数据分析提供了大量的样本，可以提供统计上显著的结果。这有可能为STEM领域的多样性和公平性研究做出重大贡献，并确保GGC教师的长期公平性。通过这个项目，乔治亚格威内特学院（GGC）旨在采取数据驱动的方法来评估其STEM教师之间的公平，特别是那些认同历史上被排除（HE）群体的教师，比如那些认同为女性和/或属于特定种族/族裔群体的教师。这项研究将有助于确定在一个多元化、少数族裔服务、开放获取的高等教育机构中，促进高等教育教师招聘、保留和发展的因素。通过收集和分析来自多个来源的数据（如人口统计数据、工资数据、排名时间、调查、焦点小组、访谈、官方政策和指导方针、年度评估等），该研究将确定导致在STEM学科中与高等教育群体认同的教师招聘、保留和进步的政策和实践。这种数据分析也将有助于识别可能影响大学STEM教师的任何不平等现象。该项目通过内部咨询委员会与GGC的主要管理人员合作，旨在制定一个五年战略计划，以解决在自我评估期间发现的任何不公平现象。该战略计划还将确定需要保留的现有做法，以维护GGC STEM教师的公平工作场所，并可与更广泛的学术界共享，以进行更广泛的实施。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“Catalyst”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年教师公平战略计划的制定提供支持。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。

This project aims to assess equity among STEM faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), a relatively young institution founded in 2006, which has a large, diverse STEM faculty who have worked at the institution since its early days. It has a significant percentage of faculty who identify as women (~50%) and with historically excluded (HE) racial/ethnic groups (~18%). GGC has several unique characteristics as compared to traditional institutions of higher education. This Catalyst Project offers a unique opportunity to understand the rapid evolution of a diverse faculty body over a short period; investigate the factors that attracted and retained a large number of HE faculty; and investigate any barriers that may have impeded their professional growth. GGC’s large number of HE STEM faculty provides a large sample size for data analysis that can provide statistically significant results. This has the potential of making significant contributions to the research on diversity and equity in STEM and ensuring equity in the long term for the GGC faculty.Through this project, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) aims to take a data-driven approach to assess equity among its STEM faculty, particularly among faculty identifying with historically excluded (HE) groups, such as those who identify as women and/or as belonging to specific racial/ethnic groups. This study will help identify the factors that contribute to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of HE faculty at a diverse, minority-serving, open-access institution. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources (such as demographic data, salary data, time at rank, surveys, focus groups, interviews, official policies and guidelines, annual evaluations, etc.), the study will identify the policies and practices that lead to recruitment, retention, and advancement of faculty identifying with HE groups in STEM disciplines. This data analysis will also help identify any inequities that might affect STEM faculty at the college. In collaboration with key administrators at GGC through an internal advisory board, the project aims to create a five-year strategic plan to address any inequities that are discovered during this self-assessment. This strategic plan will also identify existing practices that need to be retained to maintain an equitable workplace for STEM faculty at GGC and can be shared with the wider academic community for broader implementation. 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 "Catalyst" awards provide support for institutional equity assessments and the development of five-year faculty equity strategic plans at an academic, non-profit institution of higher education.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.