ADVANCE Catalyst: Self-Assessment to Establish Equity Among STEM Faculty at a Public Liberal Arts Institution

授予克里斯托弗·纽波特大学的高级催化剂奖将支持对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教职员工中与性别、种族/民族和社会认同的其他方面有关的系统性不平等进行为期两年的自我评估。该项目的目标是创造一个专业环境，有效地支持具有多种身份的妇女在STEM中的融入和成功。先遣团队将采取交叉方法来评估个人的多重身份如何影响他们的职业体验。该项目旨在提供对工作量分配、资源分配、专业发展、对校园包容性的关注，以及作为专业成功障碍和促进者的因素的重要见解。该项目将导致对主要是本科大学的教师的性别平等和交叉性问题有重要的了解。此外，先遣小组将致力于开始实施有针对性的改革，并制定一项战略计划，以解决所观察到的不平等现象和取得成功的挑战。使用混合方法，特别是顺序解释性设计，高级催化剂项目将审查克里斯托弗·纽波特大学STEM中妇女的机构背景。该项目将评估机构数据，并调查教职员工的观点和校园文化。通过分析机构和调查数据确定的关于女性在职业生活和生产力中的角色和身份的主题将被用来为采访教职员工和大学管理人员制定问题。机构、调查和访谈数据将被用来1)确定影响妇女和代表不足的少数群体(URM)教师的满意度、晋升和留住的政策和做法，2)制定以数据为导向的5年计划，以纠正任何已发现的系统性不平等或成功障碍。这笔赠款的五年战略计划的制定和实施将支持克里斯托弗·纽波特大学STEM教员的平等，并旨在对招聘、留住和提升具有多种身份(例如，父母身份、性取向/性别认同)的妇女产生可持续的影响。这种跨部门的方法将产生关于STEM教员经验的新知识，并成为克里斯托弗·纽波特大学和其他类似机构变革的催化剂。NSF高级计划旨在通过专注于发现和消除阻碍不同教员充分参与和提升学术机构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、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“催化剂”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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The ADVANCE Catalyst Award to Christopher Newport University will support a two-year self-assessment into systemic inequities related to gender, race/ethnicity, and other aspects of social identity among science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty. The project’s goal is to create a professional environment that effectively supports the inclusion and success of women with multiple identities in STEM. The ADVANCE team will take an intersectional approach to evaluate how individuals’ multiple identities impact their professional experiences. The project aims to provide significant insight into workload distribution, resource allocation, professional advancement, concerns regarding inclusivity on campus, and factors that serve as barriers and facilitators to professional success. The project will lead to important understanding of issues related to gender equity and intersectionality for faculty at primarily undergraduate universities. Further, the ADVANCE team will aim to begin implementing targeted changes and develop a strategic plan to address observed inequities and challenges to success. Using a mixed methods approach, specifically a sequential explanatory design, the ADVANCE Catalyst project will examine the institutional context for women in STEM at Christopher Newport University. The project will assess institutional data and survey faculty about their perspectives and campus culture. Themes about women’s roles and identities in their professional lives and productivity identified by analyzing the institutional and survey data will be used to develop questions for interviews with faculty and university administrators. The institutional, survey, and interview data will be used to 1) identify policies and practices that affect satisfaction, promotion, and retention of women and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty and, 2) develop a 5-year data-driven plan to remedy any identified systemic inequities or barriers to success. The creation and implementation of the five-year strategic plan from this grant will support equity among STEM faculty at Christopher Newport University and is intended to have sustainable effects on the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women with multiple identities (e.g., parenthood, sexual orientation/gender identification). The intersectional approach will generate new knowledge about the experiences of STEM faculty and serve as a catalyst for change at Christopher Newport University as well as at other similar institutions.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.