ADVANCE Adaptation: Removing Barriers to Institutional Success in STEM at Central Michigan University

中密歇根大学（CMU）的ADVANCE适应项目旨在改善CMU STEM教师的工作场所文化和氛围。该项目是由机构的自我评估，确定了机会，以提高机构的能力，招聘高素质的干教师CMU，并确保他们在CMU保留和茁壮成长的通知。该项目包括三项举措：1）创建一个“倡导者和盟友”计划，2）确保透明和公平的政策和程序，以及3）制定更受欢迎的教师招聘做法和指导机会。CMU ADVANCE项目将产生几个可能对其他机构有益的工具，例如基于文献的自我评估清单，用于部门规章制度审查和教师招聘和招聘工具包。 该项目得到了机构领导的支持，旨在实现可持续性。这项工作预计将建立一个公平的制度文化，透明的政策，并改善招聘和指导的做法，这将有利于所有教师和学生在CMU.The NSF ADVANCE计划旨在促进性别平等，通过对识别和消除组织障碍，阻碍了学术机构的全面参与和发展的不同教师的重点。 阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Central Michigan University's (CMU) ADVANCE Adaptation project aims to improve the workplace culture and climate for STEM faculty at CMU. 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 CMU and to ensure that they are retained and thrive at CMU. The project includes three initiatives: 1) creating an “advocates and allies” program, 2) ensuring transparent and fair policies and procedures, and 3) developing more welcoming faculty recruitment practices and mentoring opportunities. These initiatives are evidence-based informed by the relevant research literature and/or adapted from other ADVANCE institutions.The CMU ADVANCE project will result in several tools that may be beneficial to other institutions such as a self-assessment checklist, based on the literature, for departmental by-law reviews and a faculty recruitment and hiring toolkit. The project has support from institutional leadership and is designed to be sustainable. This work is expected to build an institutional culture of equity, transparent policies, and improved recruitment and mentoring practices that will benefit all faculty and students at CMU.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.