ADVANCE Adaptation: UMass Boston CARES: Communities, Acknowledgment, Recognition and Equity through a Culture of Sponsorship

该项目解决了与社区参与研究和关怀工作缺乏认可和价值相关的问题，以及女性教师和有色人种教师承担的不公平服务负担。重要的是，这些问题在高等教育中普遍存在，并已被证明会导致女性教师和有色人种教师在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的经验和职业发展方面的不平等。为了解决性别和种族不平等问题，马萨诸塞大学波士顿社区，通过赞助文化的认可，认可和公平（CARES）将实施两套主要战略，即政策核心和培训核心。政策核心将侧重于在终身教职和非终身教职教师的晋升审查中，增加对服务、社区参与研究和关怀工作的公平认可。培训核心将集中在剧院增强的旁观者培训上，以解决和减轻教员人事审查中的性别和种族偏见。该项目还将为人事审查、旁观者干预和行为、赞助和共谋工具制定以性别和种族平等为重点的指导方针。此外，该项目旨在发展一种重视关怀工作、服务和社区参与研究的制度文化，这将导致麻省大学波士顿分校的系统性变革。基于马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校国家科学基金会ADVANCE Catalyst机构自我评估的结果，马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校关怀项目的目标是使用交叉视角来适应和实施校园范围内的政策和旁观者干预，以促进结构和文化变革，从而增加STEM教师的性别和种族平等。该项目的具体目标是实施与终身教职和非终身教职教职人员评估相关的公平政策和实践，并将大学文化转向以表彰和奖励社区参与的研究、服务和关怀工作为中心。该项目侧重于战略的两个核心，即政策核心和培训核心。政策核心的目标是通过一个工作组程序，制定和实施具有公平意识的业务人员审查指南，创造公平的教员人事审查。培训核心的目的是为参与教师人事审查的教师和领导提供戏剧增强的旁观者干预。旁观者项目关注的是与关怀工作、服务和社区参与研究评估相关的人员评估中的内隐偏见问题。该项目还有望明确社区参与的研究和关怀工作，以及如何认可和奖励这些教师活动，以支持女性教师和有色人种教师在STEM领域的经历和职业成果。该项目将导致系统性的变化，显著地改变马萨诸塞大学波士顿分校的结构和文化，以公平的人事审查政策、实践和流程为中心。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。

This project addresses issues related to lack of recognition and value for community engaged research and caring work, along with inequitable service loads shouldered by women faculty and faculty of color. Importantly, these issues are widespread in higher education and have been demonstrated to lead to inequities in the experiences and career advancement of women faculty and faculty of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. To address gender and racial inequities, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston Communities, Acknowledgment, Recognition and Equity through a Culture of Sponsorship (CARES) will implement two major sets of strategies, the policy core and the training core. The policy core will focus on increasing the equitable recognition of service, community-engaged research, and caring work in tenure and promotion reviews for tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty. The training core will center theater-enhanced bystander training to address and mitigate gender and racial bias in faculty personnel reviews. The project will also develop gender and racial equity-focused guidelines for personnel reviews, bystander interventions and behaviors, sponsorship, and co-conspirator tools. In addition, the project seeks to develop an institutional culture that values caring work, service, and community-engaged research which will lead to systemic change at UMass Boston.Grounded in the findings of UMass Boston’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE Catalyst institutional self-assessment, the UMass Boston CARES project’s goal is to use an intersectional lens to adapt and implement campus wide policy and bystander interventions to promote structural and cultural changes that increase gender and racial equity for STEM faculty. The specific objectives of the project are to implement equity-minded policies and practices related to tenure-track and nontenure-track faculty personnel reviews and to shift the culture of the university toward centering recognition and rewards for community-engaged research, service, and caring work. The project focuses on two cores of strategies, the policy core and the training core. The aim of the policy core is to create equitable faculty personnel reviews through a working group process that will develop and implement equity-minded operational personnel review guidelines. The aim of the training core is to provide theater enhanced bystander interventions for faculty and leaders involved in faculty personnel reviews. The bystander program focuses on issues of implicit bias in personnel reviews related specifically to the evaluation of caring work, service, and community-engaged research. The project is also expected to provide clarity about community-engaged research and caring work, and how those faculty activities are recognized and rewarded to support the experiences and career outcomes of women faculty and faculty of color in STEM fields. The project will lead to systemic change that significantly shifts the structures and culture of UMass Boston to center equitable personnel review policies, practices, and processes.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.