ADVANCE Adaptation: Advancing and Maintaining Equity in STEM (AMES)

布拉德利大学(BU)的推进和维护STEM公平(AMES)高级适应项目将实施干预措施，以改善校园环境，并制定政策和程序，可用于布拉德利大学和其他以本科为主的机构(PUI)，以招聘和留住所有背景的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教师。为了应对校园氛围，Ames项目将实施两项倡议：1)倡导者和盟友计划(由北达科他州立大学开发)，以解决隐性偏见，提高对系统性和人际形式歧视的理解，并在教职员工中培养倡导和干预技能；2)多样性、公平和团结(IDEAS)计划，通过定期和高度可见的校园活动和交流，提高对扩大STEM参与和公平的认识和欣赏。艾姆斯项目旨在将波士顿大学的校园氛围转变为公平、相互尊重和非歧视的文化。该项目还寻求解决导致缺乏对学术事业的参与并阻碍所有STEM教员取得成功的系统性障碍。为了解决系统性的结构性问题，该项目旨在1)让教师参与修订年度审查流程和终身教职、晋升和留任政策，2)创建和实施一个仪表板，以更好地跟踪多个维度的教员数据，并建立机构变革的问责制，以及3)开发和试点提前知情教席培训(ACT)，为STEM教席提供影响招聘、工作量、留任和晋升领域的培训。AMES项目成果，包括工具和课程材料，将通过出版物、会议报告和其可公开访问的网站向区域和国家受众传播。 高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教员在学术机构充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别公平。 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。AMES高级适应奖为适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持，以适应和采用基于证据的战略，以适应学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术机构，非营利组织。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 Advancing and Maintaining Equity in STEM (AMES) ADVANCE Adaptation project at Bradley University (BU) will implement interventions to improve campus climate and develop policies and procedures that can be used across Bradley University and in other predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs) to recruit and retain science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty from all backgrounds. To address campus climate, the AMES project will implement two initiatives; 1) an Advocates & Allies program (developed by North Dakota State University) to address implicit bias, improve understanding of systemic and interpersonal forms of discrimination, and build advocacy and intervention skills among faculty, and 2) a Diversity, Equity, and Solidarity (IDEAS) Program to increase awareness of and appreciation for broadening participation and fairness in STEM through regular and highly visible campus events and communications. The AMES project is designed to shift the BU campus climate toward a culture of fairness, mutual respect, and non-discrimination. The project also seeks to address the systemic barriers that contribute to the lack of participation in academic careers and hinder success for all STEM faculty. To address systemic structural issues, the project aims to 1) engage faculty in the revision of annual review processes and tenure, promotion, and retention policies, 2) create and implement a dashboard to better track faculty data along multiple dimensions and build accountability for institutional change, and 3) develop and pilot ADVANCE-informed Chair Training (ACT) to provide STEM chairs with training in areas that impact hiring, workload, retention, and promotion. The AMES project outcomes including tools, and curricular materials will be disseminated to regional and national audiences through publications, conference presentations, and its publicly accessible website.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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education as well as non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.