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)的高级适应项目旨在改善一所新成立的研究型大学STEM教员的工作场所文化和环境。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，并确保他们被留住并在专业和个人方面茁壮成长。该项目旨在将基本变革内容纳入一项全面的机构战略，使数据管理、实践和领导力保持一致，以实现系统性变革。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，并向主要利益攸关方提供培训。这些举措是以证据为基础的，并由相关研究文献提供信息和/或改编自其他先进机构。UTSA Advance项目将创建一个大学级和学院级的本地变化团队，该团队将被授权推动基于证据的系统性变化，如指导和政策审查和修订，包括问责协议。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层的支持，包括监测所执行战略的有效性的计划，旨在实现可持续发展。预计从该项目中吸取的经验教训将为全国其他为拉美裔服务的机构和为少数族裔服务的机构制定支持STEM教师公平的战略。这项工作预计将建立一种公平的制度文化和改进的做法，这将使UTSA的所有教职员工和学生受益。NSF高级计划旨在通过专注于识别和消除阻碍不同教员在学术机构充分参与和晋升的组织障碍来促进性别公平。阻碍公平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。先期“适应”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利性组织提供调整和采用循证策略的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.