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，有必要在大学和学院增加受过良好训练的STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学生的数量。这必须在美国大学生人数减少的情况下发生。因此，仅仅依靠为过去主修STEM领域的学生提供服务是不够的。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）的努力来实现。然而，除非在数学和统计方面解决这些问题，否则高校永远无法完全解决DIB的挑战。数学和统计系基本上影响着每一个进入大学的STEM学生。考虑到数学科学系在教育所有进入高等教育的学生方面的独特作用，数学科学在STEM教育中解决DIB问题对所有STEM学科都至关重要。为此，TPSE数学（转化高等教育数学）将试点一个为期两年的DIB数学/统计领导学院，培训数学家和统计学家成为DIB顾问，并为数学和统计部门提供支持，以开展DIB改进项目。DIB数学/统计领导学院将在发展中国家环境中为高等教育中的数学和统计部门提供便利，使其更加多样化和包容性，同时扩大参与。这将影响到与该系相关的广泛群体，包括不同种族、民族、性别认同、国籍和残疾状况的本科生、研究生、博士后、教职员工。此外，这将涉及各种各样的部门，如两年制、四年制本科院校和研究密集型院校的部门。由于其巨大的服务作用，数学和统计部门基本上影响着每一个进入学院或大学的STEM学生。为了帮助这些院系成功推进STEM教育的多样性、包容性和更广泛的参与，TPSE Math创建了一套针对数学科学的资源，称为COME-IN工具。COME-IN是与美国科学促进会海洋变化倡议合作开发的。在这个项目中，TPSE数学计划建立一个为期两年的DIB数学/统计领导学院，作为试点，测试小型部门团队使用COME-IN DIB工具以及数学/统计DIB顾问作为数学科学部门转型变革的催化剂的可行性。该DIB数学/统计领导力研究所将由四个相互关联的部分组成：建立基础，以改善数学科学部门的DIB工作；培训DIB顾问；建立一个社区和机构网络，合作改善数学科学社区的DIB工作；以及评估这些工作。TPSE数学将继续与美国科学促进会海洋变化计划合作，并与美国数学协会和美国国家科学基金会INCLUDES国家网络等数学/统计专业组织合作。长期愿景是试点、测试、修改和扩大DIB数学/统计领导力研究所，该研究所将建立一个最终项目，作为数学科学界改进DIB工作的典范。该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊（Eddie Bernice Johnson）资助，该计划旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，扩大STEM的大规模参与。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。

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.