ADVANCE Adaptation: NYU InterScience-Systemic Changes in Leadership and Climate for Inclusive STEM

纽约大学（NYU）的ADVANCE Adaptation项目InterScience将专注于为所有STEM教师改善纽约大学的工作场所文化和气候。该项目旨在实施新的政策和做法，以提高在STEM教师职业中代表性不足的女性和有色人种女性的保留率、成功率、满意度和代表性。InterScience项目有三个主要目标：(1)培养STEM教师担任领导角色，特别是担任系主任；(2)授权部门主席、中心领导和倡导者进行批判性培训；(3)提高所有STEM教师的留任率、终身任职成功率、满意度和归属感。ADVANCE项目将与现有的NSF AGEP ELEVATE项目合作，该项目专注于有色人种的初级教师。利用两个项目所做的工作。由于系主任在指导初级教师、设置部门氛围、招聘、终身教职和晋升过程中发挥着至关重要的作用，因此该项目将重点关注改善通往领导角色的途径，以确保来自代表性不足群体的STEM教师感兴趣。该项目将制定和实施新的政策，以提高主席角色的吸引力，创造新的副主席角色，并提高任命教师担任领导职位的程序的透明度和公平性。此外，该项目将为主席、倡导者和中心主任提供定期培训，创建正式的多元化倡导者项目，并创建一系列指导和网络项目。拟议中的InterScience中心和数字指导平台将发展到包括来自纽约地区其他大学的教师，并可以作为美国其他大学的典范。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 New York University’s (NYU) ADVANCE Adaptation project, InterScience, will focus on improving the workplace culture and climate at NYU for all STEM faculty. The project aims to implement new policies and practices that will lead to improved retention, success, satisfaction, and representation of women and women of color who are underrepresented in STEM faculty careers. The InterScience project has three main objectives (1) Develop STEM faculty for leadership roles, in particular as department chairs; (2) Empower department chairs, center leaders, and advocates with critical training; (3) Improve retention, tenure success, satisfaction, and sense of belonging for all STEM faculty. The ADVANCE project will partner with the existing NSF AGEP ELEVATE program which is focused on junior faculty of color. to leverage the work done by both projects. Because department chairs play a crucial role in mentoring junior faculty, in setting the department climate, in hiring, and in the tenure and promotion process, this project will focus on improving the pathway to this leadership role to ensure it is of interest to STEM faculty from underrepresented groups. The project will develop and implement new policies to improve the attractiveness of the role of chair, create new vice-chair roles, and improve transparency and equity in the procedure to appoint faculty to leadership positions. In addition, the project will provide regular training to Chairs, Advocates, and center directors, create a formalized Diversity Advocates program, and create a range of mentoring and networking programs. The proposed InterScience Center and digital mentoring platform will evolve to include faculty from other New York-area universities and can serve as a model for other universities in the US. 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.