ADVANCE Partnership: Raising Equity Values with the Inclusive Professional Framework and the International Organization for Standardization Standards in Engineering Societies

美国作为世界领导者所面临的全球性问题的重要性要求在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）方面表现卓越。卓越是一群才华横溢、多元化的人在包容的环境中共同努力的结果。目前，美国正在努力满足全国对更多、更多样化的STEM学者和劳动力专业人士的需求。由于二十年来NSF advance资助的关于组织变革战略的研究，以促进全面和包容性的STEM学科参与，实现多样化STEM学术和专业劳动力的斗争不是因为我们没有基于证据的政策和实践，而是缺乏国家认可的标准来促进这些基于证据的政策和实践的集体意识、知识和应用。然而，截至2021年5月，国际标准化组织（ISO）人力资源管理发布了其多样性和包容性标准（ISO:30415； ANSI, 2021）。仍然存在的问题是如何有效地实现对新发布的标准的认识、了解和应用。专业和学科协会（统称为“协会”）服务于学术机构和学术影响组织，如认证机构、国家实验室、公司和政府，因此具有独特的地位，可以为ISO标准：30415的高效采用提供模型和帮助。此外，由于工程师对标准特别敏感，因此工程协会是主要关注的焦点。因此，该项目旨在为工程学会领导者和利益相关者提供ISO:30415标准化资源和工具，这将推动基于证据的包容性组织政策和实践的意识、知识和应用。最终，该项目将增强美国在STEM领域的卓越能力，以及解决美国和世界面临的复杂问题的手段。该项目的目标是提高工程专业协会对ISO:30415多样性和包容性标准的认识和采用，这将提高对以证据为基础的组织政策和实践的认识和采用，促进包容性学科的卓越。该项目将涉及三个目标受众：(1)个人，(2)组织，和(3)系统。该项目旨在通过两个阶段的方法来实现其目标。第一阶段包括为工程协会量身定制一个新颖的、基于网络的ISO:30415平台的创建和试点。阶段2包括开发和部署活动，以使变更领导者的变更过程标准化。社团包容性专业框架是一个以研究为依据、以证据为基础的框架，将成为组织变革过程标准化的基础。预期成果包括：ISO:30415工程学会网络平台的开发；参与2个队列（最多15个学会）；为工程变革领导者收集、开发和使用组织变革工具和资源。研究结果将通过网站、网络研讨会、工程期刊和社会专业会议传播。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“伙伴关系”奖为高等教育的学术、非营利机构和非学术、非营利组织适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持。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 significance of the global problems faced by the United States as a world leader demand excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Excellence is the result of teams of talented, diverse people working together in an inclusive environment. Currently, the United States is struggling to meet national demand for a greater number and more diverse engagement of STEM academics and workforce professionals. Thanks to two decades of NSF ADVANCE-funded research on organizational change strategies to promote comprehensive and inclusive STEM disciplinary engagement, the struggle to achieve a diverse STEM academic and professional workforce is not because we don’t have evidence-based policies and practices for doing so, but rather the lack of nationally recognized standards to promote the collective awareness, knowledge, and application of these evidence-based policies and practices. However, as of May 2021, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Human Resource Management released their Diversity and Inclusion Standard (ISO:30415; ANSI, 2021). The problem that remains is the mechanism by which awareness, knowledge, and application of the newly released standard will be efficiently and effectively achieved. Professional and disciplinary societies (collectively referred to as “societies”) serve academic institutions and academic-influencing organizations such as accrediting agencies, national laboratories, corporations, and government, and are thus uniquely positioned to model and help facilitate efficient and effective adoption of the ISO standard:30415. Further, because engineers are especially attuned to standards, engineering societies are a primary focus. Thus, this project aims to provide engineering society leaders and stakeholders with ISO:30415 standardization resources and tools, which will drive awareness, knowledge and application of evidence-based inclusive organizational policies and practices. Ultimately, this project will enhance the United States’ STEM excellence and means of addressing the complex problems facing the nation, and the world.The goal of this project is to enhance awareness and adoption of the ISO:30415 Diversity and Inclusion Standards by engineering professional societies which will increase the awareness and adoption of evidence-based organizational policies and practices promoting inclusive disciplinary excellence. The project will engage three target audiences: (1) individuals, (2) organizations, and (3) systems. The project aims to accomplish its goal through a two-phase approach. Phase 1 involves the creation and piloting of a novel, web-based ISO:30415 platform tailored for engineering societies. Phase 2 includes developing and deploying activities to standardize a change process for change leaders. The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies, a research-informed, evidence-based framework, will be foundational to the standardization of the organizational change process. Expected outcomes include: development of ISO:30415 engineering society web-based platform; engagement of 2 cohorts (up to 15 societies); collection, development, and use of organizational change tools and resources for engineering change leaders. Results will be disseminated through websites, webinars, engineering journals, and society professional conferences. 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 "Partnership" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education and 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.