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问题的重要性，需要在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面取得卓越成绩。卓越是由才华横溢的不同人员组成的团队在包容的环境中共同工作的结果。目前，美国正在努力满足国家对STEM学者和劳动力专业人员更多和更多样化的参与的需求。得益于美国国家科学基金会二十年来对组织变革战略的预先资助研究，以促进全面和包容的STEM学科参与，努力实现多样化的STEM学术和专业队伍并不是因为我们没有这样做的循证政策和实践，而是因为缺乏国家公认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，国际标准化组织人力资源管理发布了其多样性和包容性标准(ISO：30415；美国国家标准协会，2021年)。仍然存在的问题是如何高效地实现对新发布的标准的认识、知识和应用。专业学会和学科学会(统称为“学会”)为学术机构和学术影响力组织服务，如认证机构、国家实验室、公司和政府，因此在示范和帮助有效地采用国际标准化组织标准：30415方面具有独特的地位。此外，由于工程师特别适应标准，工程学会是主要关注点。因此，该项目旨在为工程学会领导人和利益攸关方提供ISO：30415标准化资源和工具，从而提高人们对基于证据的包容性组织政策和实践的认识、知识和应用。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，从而提高人们对促进包容性学科卓越的循证组织政策和实践的认识和采用。该项目将吸引三个目标受众：(1)个人、(2)组织和(3)系统。该项目旨在通过两个阶段的方法实现其目标。第一阶段涉及为工程学会量身定做的基于网络的ISO：30415平台的创建和试点。阶段2包括为变更领导者开发和部署标准化变更流程的活动。包容性社会专业框架是一个以研究为基础、以证据为基础的框架，它将是组织变革进程标准化的基础。预期成果包括：开发国际标准化组织：30415工程学会网络平台；参与2个群体(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。结果将通过网站、网络研讨会、工程期刊和社会专业会议进行传播。NSF高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员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、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“伙伴关系”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构和非学术、非营利性组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。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 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.