ADVANCE Adaptation: Leveraging Best Practices for Institutional Change at a Research-Intensive Hispanic-Serving Institution

德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校（UTSA）的ADVANCE适应项目旨在改善一所新成立的研究型大学STEM教师的工作场所文化和气候。该项目由机构自我评估提供信息，该评估确定了提高机构招聘高素质STEM教师到UTSA的能力的机会，并确保他们在专业和个人方面得到保留和发展。该项目旨在将必要的变化组成部分集成到一个综合的机构战略中，该战略将数据管理、实践和领导结合起来，以实现系统性变化。该项目将实施一项教师指导计划，以培养一种指导文化，在教师职业生涯的各个阶段为他们提供支持。此外，该项目将支持政策审查和修订，并为主要利益相关者提供培训。这些举措是基于证据的，并根据相关研究文献和/或改编自其他ADVANCE机构。UTSA ADVANCE项目将创建一个大学级和学院级的地方变革团队，这些团队将被授权推动基于证据的系统性变革，如指导、政策审查和修订，包括问责制协议。该项目旨在制定和实施一系列协调一致的举措，以实现系统性的体制变革。该项目得到了机构领导的支持，包括监测所执行战略有效性的计划，其目的是可持续的。预计从该项目中吸取的经验教训将为全国其他为西班牙裔服务的机构和少数族裔服务的机构提供信息，以设计支持STEM教师公平的战略。这项工作预计将建立一个公平的制度文化和改进的做法，将有利于所有教师和学生在UTSA。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 University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) ADVANCE Adaptation project is designed to improve the workplace culture and climate for STEM faculty at a newly minted research one university. This project is informed by an institutional self-assessment that identified opportunities to enhance the institution’s ability to recruit highly qualified STEM faculty to UTSA and to ensure that they are retained and thrive professionally and personally. The project aims to integrate essential change components into a comprehensive institutional strategy that aligns data management, practice, and leadership to effect systemic change. The project will implement a faculty mentoring program to foster a culture of mentoring that supports faculty at all points in their professional career. In addition, the project will support policy reviews and revisions and provide training to key stakeholders. These initiatives are evidence-based and informed by the relevant research literature and/or adapted from other ADVANCE institutions.The UTSA ADVANCE project will create a university level and college level Local Change Teams that will be empowered to drive evidenced-based systemic changes such as mentoring and policy review and revision including accountability protocols. This project aims to develop and implement a range of coordinated initiatives in pursuit of systemic institutional changes. The project has support from institutional leadership, includes plans for monitoring the effectiveness of the strategies implemented, and is designed to be sustainable. It is anticipated that the lessons learned from the project will inform other Hispanic-serving institutions and minority-serving institutions around the nation in designing strategies to support equity for STEM faculty. This work is expected to build an institutional culture of equity and improved practices that will benefit all faculty and students at UTSA.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.