ADVANCE Catalyst: Faculty Resources and Opportunities for Growth in STEM

高级催化剂拨款将支持德克萨斯基督教大学确定它如何隐含地影响了科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)系的不平等。通过确定女性STEM教员的障碍和桥梁，该项目旨在产生不仅影响STEM，而且影响TCU所有女教员的制度变革。更广泛地说，随着任何机构将公平环境作为常态发展，硕士和博士项目的毕业生将带着公平的心态进入他们的学术生涯，这有可能增加STEM女教师的数量。此外，系统性的变化(女性教职员工数量的增加)有可能加强我们校园的研究和教育基础设施。分析和由此产生的五年战略计划可能会为其他人口统计和历史背景相似的私立大学的工作奠定基础。德克萨斯基督教大学高级催化剂项目基于三个学术领域的强劲文献；女性在高等教育(特别是STEM)、交叉性和高等教育自学方面的挑战。结合这些工作机构，重点是了解该机构在为交叉部门的女性教员培养挑战和不同的工作环境方面所扮演的角色。该项目将考虑妇女/女性担任的其他身份和职位，以了解她们的地位。短期目标是开展一项自我研究，以找出阻碍妇女在STEM中平等和融入的系统性因素，特别注意交叉分析将如何帮助理解妇女在校园的经历，因为这些差异会对她们的生活产生实质性的影响，因为她们的不同身份决定了这些差异。该项目的一个关键优势是定性地关注于理解STEM女性教职员工被视为一个复杂的存在而不仅仅是她们的性别时的障碍/桥梁。研究问题包括：(1)在STEM招聘、聘用、提拔和留住女性/女性教员的障碍和桥梁是什么？(2)STEM中女性教员在招聘、招聘、提拔和留住方面最重要的交叉点是什么？长期目标是实施五年战略计划并记录机构改革努力的成效。NSF高级计划旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍不同教员在学术机构充分参与和晋升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 grant will support Texas Christian University’s effort to determine how it has implicitly influenced the inequities found in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments. By identifying barriers and bridges for women STEM faculty, this project aims to produce institutional change that will impact not only STEM, but also all women faculty at TCU. More broadly, as any institution develops an environment of equity as the norm, graduates of master and doctoral programs will enter their academic careers with a mindset of equity which has the potential to increase the number of women STEM faculty. In addition, systemic change (with an increase in the number of women faculty) has the potential to enhance infrastructure for research and education on our campus. The analysis and resulting five-year strategic plan may ground the work of other private universities with similar demographics and historical contexts.The Texas Christian University ADVANCE Catalyst project is grounded in the robust literature of three academic areas; challenges for women in higher education (especially STEM), intersectionality, and self-studies in higher education. Combining these bodies of work, the focus is on understanding the institution’s role in cultivating challenges and disparate work contexts for intersectional women faculty. This project will consider the other identities and positions held by women/females to understand their positionality. The short-term goal is to conduct a self-study to identify systemic factors that impede equity and inclusion of women in STEM, paying particular attention to the ways intersectional analyses will inform understandings of women’s experiences on campus given that those differences make a material difference in their lives as derived from their diverse identities. A key strength of the project is the qualitative focus on understanding the barriers/bridges when women STEM faculty are seen as a complex being who are more than their gender. Research questions include: (1) What are the barriers and bridges for recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining women/female faculty in STEM? (2) What are the most significant intersections for women faculty for recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining within STEM? The long-term goal is to implement the five-year strategic plan and document the efficacy of institutional change efforts.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.