NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Re-Imagining STEM Equity Utilizing Postdoctoral Pathways

NSF 包括联盟：利用博士后途径重新构想 STEM 股权

• 批准号: 2217329
• 负责人: Philip Rous
• 金额: $ 999.97万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Alliance; Re; Imagining

Improving models for enhanced recruitment, engagement, and transition to faculty roles for minoritized postdoctoral scholars is critical to address their significant and disproportionate departure from academic career paths in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. While some institutional approaches have produced modest, localized results, collaborative approaches across networks of institutions and established state university systems could be leveraged to address this challenge. The NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Re-Imagining STEM Equity Utilizing Postdoc Pathways (RISE UPP) aims to increase the number of minoritized faculty in STEM by focusing on four areas of evidence-based interventions: 1) facilitating a formal assessment of departments, institutions, and systems and promoting inclusive policies, programs and practices that are undergirded by more equitable norms and expectations; 2) creating pathways, through policy and practice, that facilitate recruitment and conversion of minoritized postdocs into tenure-track positions within and across participating university systems; 3) developing minoritized postdoctoral scholars by providing training, professional development, and community with other scholars across their university system and the RISE UPP Alliance network; and 4) supporting mentors of minoritized postdocs and junior faculty by providing training, compensation, recognition, and advocacy. RISE UPP’s goals align with the vision of NSF INCLUDES to innovate and facilitate collaborative approaches to broaden participation and leadership in STEM. The Alliance will collaborate with and build upon the work of the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance to diversify faculty and improve institutional cultures, maintaining a unique focus on the postdoctoral scholar career stage and the structural changes needed within and across state university systems to facilitate racial equity in the professoriate.RISE UPP leverages the work of two state university systems that have developed and implemented inter-institutional approaches to diversify faculty through postdoctoral recruitment, training, and transition into faculty positions - the University System of Maryland’s NSF AGEP PROMISE Academy Alliance and the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. These systems will act together as Core Model Partners and will provide support to three additional state university systems that will adapt these models as Scaling Partners: the University of Texas System, the Texas A&M University System, and the University of North Carolina System. The RISE UPP Alliance will help Scaling Partners act as a system to facilitate the more equitable and inclusive recruitment, development and subsequent hiring of minoritized postdoctoral scholars into tenure-track positions at R1, R2, and teaching-intensive institutions within participating state university systems. The Alliance will contribute to the body of knowledge in broadening participation research by examining how collaborations within and across multiple state systems may interact to shape efforts at organizational diversification and transformational change needed in STEM fields. The five elements of collaborative infrastructure will guide this multi-institutional, multi-dimensional project to forge novel partnerships and accelerate change. The National Association of System Heads (NASH) will serve as the backbone organization for RISE UPP, having served as a forum for discussion, dissemination, and action-oriented change efforts among state university systems for decades. The National Postdoctoral Association will also serve as an amplifying partner, and will assist in recruitment, production of resources, including a toolkit, and dissemination across the NSF INCLUDES National Network. By investing effort into building tools to help other institutions and systems implement and scale successful approaches, RISE UPP can contribute to a STEM professoriate that reflects the population of the Nation and reduce the barriers to broad implementation of effective approaches.This project is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The Alliance is co-funded by NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which supports institutional change to advance African American, Hispanic American, Native American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Native Pacific Islander STEM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral research scholars and faculty toward tenure and promotion in academic institutions.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.

改善少数族裔博士后学者的招聘、参与和向教师角色过渡的模式，对于解决他们在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域严重且不成比例地偏离学术职业道路的问题至关重要。虽然一些机构方法产生了适度的局部结果，但可以利用跨机构网络和已建立的州立大学系统的合作方法来应对这一挑战。NSF INCLUDES联盟：利用博士后路径重新想象STEM公平（RISE UPP）旨在通过关注四个循证干预领域来增加STEM中少数族裔教师的数量：1)促进对部门、机构和系统的正式评估，促进以更公平的规范和期望为基础的包容性政策、项目和实践；2)通过政策和实践创造途径，促进少数民族博士后在参与大学系统内部和跨系统的招聘和转化为终身职位；3)通过大学系统和RISE UPP联盟网络为其他学者提供培训、专业发展和社区，培养少数民族博士后；4)通过培训、薪酬、表彰和倡导等方式支持少数族裔博士后和初级教师的导师。RISE UPP的目标与NSF INCLUDES的愿景一致，即创新和促进协作方法，以扩大STEM的参与和领导。该联盟将与NSF INCLUDES Aspire联盟合作，并以其工作为基础，使教师多样化，改善机构文化，保持对博士后学者职业生涯阶段的独特关注，以及州立大学系统内部和跨州立大学系统所需的结构变化，以促进教授中的种族平等。RISE UPP利用了两个州立大学系统的工作，这两个州立大学系统已经开发并实施了机构间的方法，通过博士后招聘、培训和过渡到教师职位来实现教师多样化——马里兰大学系统的NSF AGEP承诺学院联盟和加州大学校长博士后奖学金计划。这些系统将共同作为核心模式合作伙伴，并将为另外三个州立大学系统提供支持，这些大学系统将采用这些模式作为扩展合作伙伴：德克萨斯大学系统、德克萨斯农工大学系统和北卡罗来纳大学系统。RISE UPP联盟将帮助scale Partners作为一个系统，促进更公平、更包容的招聘、发展和随后聘用少数族裔博士后学者，让他们在参与的州立大学系统内的R1、R2和教学密集型机构担任终身教职。该联盟将通过研究多个国家系统内部和跨系统的合作如何相互作用，以塑造STEM领域所需的组织多样化和转型变革的努力，从而为扩大参与研究的知识体系做出贡献。协作基础设施的五个要素将指导这个多机构、多维度的项目建立新的伙伴关系并加速变革。全国系统负责人协会（NASH）将作为RISE UPP的骨干组织，几十年来一直是州立大学系统中讨论、传播和以行动为导向的变革努力的论坛。国家博士后协会也将作为一个扩大的合作伙伴，并将协助招聘、生产资源，包括工具包，并在NSF INCLUDES国家网络中传播。通过投入努力构建工具来帮助其他机构和系统实施和扩展成功的方法，RISE UPP可以为反映国家人口的STEM教授做出贡献，并减少广泛实施有效方法的障碍。该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在全国范围内的工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大STEM的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该联盟由美国国家科学基金会的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划共同资助，该计划支持制度变革，以推动非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民的STEM博士候选人、博士后研究学者和教师在学术机构获得终身职位和晋升。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。