ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Award: Creating Faculty Change Agents to Transform Academic Science and Engineering

拟议的项目将汇集从目前的UM IT计划的有效元素，形成一个新的活动，步骤（科学和技术卓越计划）。STEP的目标是通过对科学家职业轨迹中关键过程的深入研究和干预活动，创建教师变革代理人。该提案借鉴了关于无意识偏见、劣势积累、临界质量和组织理论的社会科学文献，并寻求为强化制度变革贡献一种新模式。该项目的目标是让男女STEM教师团体参与自我教育计划，并致力于成为学术机构内积极的变革推动者。 该计划将汇集UM ADVANCE机构转型项目过程中开发的几项成功活动。该项目将为强化机构转型提供一种新的模式，让高级教师参与到一个密集（集中）和广泛的过程中，成为致力于同一目标的教师网络中的变革推动者，并随着时间的推移得到支持。更广泛的影响：该计划将直接接触来自UM，中西部地区和全国的300名STEM教师。UM教师的第一批将参加后来的参与者的网络，其中一些人也将在其学科范围内采取全国性行动，增加对STEM领域的影响。所有教职员工都应该成为所在机构内更好的倡导者，并成为同事的榜样和领导者。由于教师参与者将在部门团队和更大的网络中运作，他们还将建立男女科学家和工程师的联盟。该项目将包括开发一个配套网站，用于若干目的。它将提供有关通过该项目开发的模型的信息，包括资源、阅读清单和在其他机构开发类似项目的工具包。此外，它还将管理一个讨论板，使参与者能够通过参与该计划保持联系，并提供分享信息的机会，以及帮助彼此解决特定挑战。

The proposed project will bring together effective elements from the current UM IT program to form a new activity, STEP (Science and Technology Excellence Program). STEP's goal is the creation of faculty change agents through intensive faculty study of key processes in the career trajectory of scientists and through intervention activities. The proposal draws on the social science literature regarding unconscious bias, accumulation of disadvantage, critical mass, and theories of organization and seeks to contribute a new model for intensified institutional change.The project goal is to engage groups of male and female STEM faculty in a program of self-education and commitment to becoming active change agents within their academic institutions. The program will bring together several successful activities developed in the course of the UM ADVANCE Institutional Transformation project. This project will contribute a new model for intensified institutional transformation by engaging senior faculty in an intensive (concentrated) and extensive process of becoming change agents within a network of faculty committed to the same goals, and supported over time.Broader impact: The program will directly reach 300 STEM faculty drawn from UM, the Midwest region, and nationally. The first cohort of UM faculty will participate in networks of later participants, some of whom will also take actions nationally within their disciplines, increasing the impact on the STEM fields. All faculty participants should become better advocates within their institutions and serve as models and leaders for colleagues. Because faculty participants will be operating in departmental teams and larger networks, they will also model alliances of men and women scientists and engineers. The project will include the development of a companion website that will serve several purposes. It will provide information about the model developed through this project, including resources, reading lists, and a toolkit for developing similar programs at other institutions. In addition, it will manage a discussion board to allow participants to maintain connections developed through participation in the program and provide opportunities to share information and as well as help one another problem-solve particular challenges.