ADVANCE Adaptation: Re-envisioning Inclusive and Sustainable Excellence (RISE) Advancing Women in STEM at Old Dominion University

旧领土大学(ODU)重新构想包容性和可持续卓越(RISE)项目旨在为旧领土大学努力消除科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)中系统性的性别和种族不平等做出重大贡献。性别和种族偏见在招聘、招聘、任期和晋升方面产生了差距，并助长了不利的部门氛围。使用交叉镜头，RISE项目团队将从以前的高级计划中调整基于证据的策略，以适应ODU特定的STEM环境。Rise项目旨在实现可持续变化，将ODU的校园社区转变为一个充满活力和多样化的STEM教师社区。ODU Rise项目有三个目标：1)改善STEM教师的招聘和招聘流程；2)解决与终身教职和晋升过程相关的公平问题；3)改善部门氛围，以增强包容性。使用跨部门的视角，RISE项目的结构化干预措施包括：1)为STEM部门提供招聘资源，并要求部门和院长对其招聘做法负责；2)创建公平的应聘程序，公平分配服务，提高学术工作评估以及晋升和终身教职指导方针的透明度；3)实施促进学术文化变革的战略和计划，使不同的STEM教师能够在部门中茁壮成长。这些目标和活动是相互支持、互惠互利的，是进步和可持续发展所必需的。RISE项目旨在提高教职员工对公平问题的认识，并改善所有STEM学科的院系氛围。RISE项目的成果将由ODU媒体专业人员和科学促进会(AAAS)在地方、区域和全国范围内传播。RISE项目将促进对实施跨部门战略的关注，这些战略加强了全国其他类似机构在STEM中的包容性。 高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和提升的组织障碍来促进性别公平。 高级计划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。NSF高级计划为适应和采用基于证据的策略提供支持，以适应学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织。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 Old Dominion University (ODU) Re-envisioning Inclusive and Sustainable Excellence (RISE) project is designed to make a significant contribution to ODU's efforts to eliminate systemic gender and racial inequities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Gender and racial biases produce gaps in recruitment, hiring, tenure, and promotion, and contribute to adverse departmental climates. Using an intersectional lens, the RISE project team will adapt evidence-based strategies from previous ADVANCE programs to ODU’s specific STEM environment. The RISE project seeks to achieve sustainable change that will transform ODU’s campus community into one that embraces a vibrant and diverse STEM faculty.The ODU RISE project has three goals: 1) Improve STEM faculty recruitment and hiring processes; 2) Address equity issues related to the tenure and promotion process, and 3) Improve departmental climate to enhance inclusivity. Using an intersectional lens, the RISE project’s structured interventions include: 1) providing resources for STEM departments for hiring and holding departments and deans accountable for their hiring practices; 2) creating processes for equitable launch upon hire, equitable distribution of service, and increased transparency in the evaluation of scholarly work and promotion and tenure guidelines; and 3) implementing strategies and programs that foster academic culture change and result in departments where diverse STEM faculty can thrive. The goals and activities are mutually supportive, reciprocal, and necessary for progress and sustainability. The RISE project aims to raise awareness about equity issues among faculty members and improve the departmental climate of all STEM disciplines. The outcomes of the RISE project will be disseminated locally, regionally, and nationally by ODU media professionals and the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The RISE project will promote mindfulness about the implementation of intersectional strategies that enhance inclusivity in STEM at other similarly situated institutions across the nation. 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.