INCLUDES DDLP: Creating Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences through Equity and INclusion (COME-IN)

为了加强美国的经济和技术未来，有必要增加大学和学院中训练有素的STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)学生的数量。这必须发生在美国大学适龄学生数量减少的情况下。因此，仅仅依靠服务于过去主修STEM领域的学生类型是不够的。相反，有必要招收和留住那些通常没有学习过STEM学科的学生。这可以通过多样性、包容性和扩大参与(DIB)努力来实现。然而，学院和大学永远不会完全解决DIB挑战，除非它们在数学和统计学中得到解决。数学和统计系基本上影响着每一位进入大学的STEM学生。鉴于数学科学系在基本上教育所有进入高等教育的学生方面的独特作用，对所有STEM学科来说，数学科学解决STEM教育中的DIB问题至关重要。为此，TSE Math(改造中学后教育数学)将试行为期两年的DIB数学/统计领导学院，将数学家和统计学家培训为DIB顾问，并支持数学和统计部门开展DIB改进项目。DIB数学/统计领导学院将在扩大参与的同时，在更多样化和更具包容性的发展环境中促进高等教育中的数学和统计系。这将影响到与系有关的广泛个人群体，包括本科生、研究生、博士后、教职员工和工作人员，他们来自不同的种族、民族、性别认同、国籍和残疾状况。此外，这将涉及不同的部门，如两年制、四年制主要是本科院校的系，以及研究密集型院校的系。由于其巨大的服务作用，数学和统计系基本上影响着每一位进入学院或大学的STEM学生。为了帮助这些系成功地推进其在STEM教育中的多样性、包容性和更广泛的参与，TPSE Math创建了一套专为数学科学量身定做的资源，称为Come-in Tool。进来是与AAAS海洋变化倡议合作开发的。在这个项目中，TPSE Math计划建立一个为期两年的DIB数学/统计领导学院作为试点，以测试小型部门团队的生存能力，使用新的DIB工具和数学/统计DIB顾问作为数学科学系变革的催化剂。DIB数学/统计领导学院将由四个相互关联的部分组成：建立一个改善数学系DIB工作的基础，培训DIB顾问，建立一个社区和机构网络，共同致力于DIB在数学科学界的改进，并对这些努力进行评估。TPSE Math将继续与AAAS SEA变化倡议合作，并与数学/统计专业组织合作，如美国数学协会和国家科学基金会包括国家网络。长期的愿景是试点、测试、修改和扩大DIB数学/统计领导研究所，该研究所将建立最终的计划，作为数学科学界改进DIB努力的典范。该项目由美国国家科学基金会埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊在全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习者社区(INCLUDE)倡议资助，该倡议旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推动和维持系统性变化，以扩大对STEM的参与。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。

To strengthen the economic and technological future of the U.S., there is a need to increase the number of well-trained STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students at universities and colleges. This must occur while the number of college-aged students in the U.S. is decreasing. Thus, relying on just serving the types of students who have majored in STEM fields in the past is inadequate. Instead, there is a need to recruit and retain students who have not typically studied STEM disciplines. This can be achieved through diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation (DIB) efforts. Yet, colleges and universities will never fully address DIB challenges unless they are addressed in mathematics and statistics. Mathematics and statistics departments impact essentially every STEM student who enters the university. Given the mathematical sciences' departments unique role in educating essentially all students who enter higher education, it is crucial for all STEM disciplines that the mathematical sciences address DIB issues in STEM education. To do this, TPSE Math (Transforming Post-Secondary Education Math) will pilot a two-year DIB Math/Stat Leadership Institute to train mathematicians and statisticians as DIB consultants and provide support to mathematics and statistics departments to work on a DIB improvement project. The DIB Math/Stat Leadership Institute will facilitate mathematics and statistics departments in higher education in developing environments that are more diverse and inclusive while broadening participation. This will impact a broad group of individuals connected with the department including undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and staff, of different races, ethnicities, gender identities, nationalities, and disability status. Also, this will involve a diverse set of departments such as those at two-year, four-year principally undergraduate institutions, and research-intensive institutions. Because of their enormous service role, mathematics and statistics departments impact essentially every STEM student who enters a college or university. To help these departments successfully advance their efforts toward diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in STEM education, TPSE Math created a set of resources tailored to the mathematical sciences, called the COME-IN tool. COME-IN was developed in partnership with the AAAS SEA Change initiative. In this project, TPSE Math plans a 2-year DIB Math/Stat Leadership Institute as a pilot to test the viability of small departmental teams using the COME-IN DIB tools along with math/stat DIB consultants as catalysts for transformational change in mathematical sciences departments. This DIB Math/Stat Leadership Institute will consist of four interrelated components: building a foundation to improve DIB efforts in mathematical sciences departments, training DIB consultants, establishing a community and network of institutions working in collaboration on DIB improvements in the mathematical sciences communities, and evaluating these efforts. TPSE Math will continue to partner with the AAAS SEA Change initiative and partner with math/stat professional organizations such as the Mathematics Association of America and the NSF INCLUDES National Network. The long-term vision is to pilot, test, modify, and expand the DIB Math/Stat Leadership Institute, which will establish the resulting program as a model for the mathematical sciences communities to improve DIB efforts. This project is funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.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.