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

克里斯托弗·纽波特大学（Christopher Newport University）的ADVANCE Catalyst奖将支持一项为期两年的自我评估，该评估涉及科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师之间的性别、种族/民族和社会身份的其他方面的系统性不平等。该项目的目标是创造一个专业的环境，有效地支持具有多种身份的女性在STEM领域的融入和成功。ADVANCE团队将采用交叉方法来评估个人的多重身份如何影响他们的职业经历。该项目旨在深入了解工作量分配、资源分配、专业发展、对校园包容性的关注，以及阻碍和促进职业成功的因素。该项目将为主要本科大学的教师带来对与性别平等和交叉性有关的问题的重要理解。此外，ADVANCE团队将致力于开始实施有针对性的变革，并制定战略计划，以解决观察到的不公平现象和成功的挑战。ADVANCE Catalyst项目将采用混合方法，特别是顺序解释性设计，研究克里斯托弗·纽波特大学（Christopher Newport University）女性在STEM领域的制度背景。该项目将评估机构数据，并调查教师的观点和校园文化。通过分析机构和调查数据确定的关于妇女在其职业生活和生产力中的角色和身份的主题将用于编制与教员和大学行政人员面谈的问题。机构、调查和访谈数据将用于：1)确定影响女性和代表性不足的少数民族（URM）教师满意度、晋升和留任的政策和做法；2)制定一个5年数据驱动计划，以纠正任何已确定的系统性不平等或成功障碍。这项拨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教师之间的平等，并旨在对具有多种身份（如父母身份、性取向/性别认同）的女性的招聘、保留和晋升产生可持续的影响。这种交叉方法将产生有关STEM教师经验的新知识，并成为克里斯托弗·纽波特大学以及其他类似机构变革的催化剂。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。

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.