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

布拉德利大学（BU）的推进和维护STEM (AMES) ADVANCE适应项目将实施干预措施，以改善校园气候，并制定政策和程序，这些政策和程序可以在布拉德利大学和其他主要的本科院校（PUIs）中使用，以招募和留住来自各种背景的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师。为了解决校园气候问题，AMES项目将实施两项举措；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，提高对系统和人际歧视形式的理解，并在教师中建立倡导和干预技能；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赞赏。AMES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学术生涯参与和阻碍所有STEM教师成功的系统性障碍。为了解决系统性结构问题，该项目旨在1)让教师参与年度审查流程和任期、晋升和保留政策的修订；2)创建并实施一个仪表板，以便更好地从多个维度跟踪教师数据，并建立制度变革的问责制；3)开发和试点先进的知情主席培训（ACT），为STEM主席提供影响招聘、工作量、保留和晋升的领域的培训。AMES项目成果，包括工具和课程材料，将通过出版物、会议报告及其可公开访问的网站向区域和国家受众传播。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“适应”奖为高等教育的学术、非营利机构以及非学术、非营利组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。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 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.