Navigating the Legal and Higher Education Landscapes to Foster and Sustain

AAAS将开展一个为期一年的项目，该项目建立在五年多的工作基础上，探索联邦和州法律和政策如何影响旨在支持大学校园中代表性不足的教师和学生的项目的运作。智力优势。 在开展了确定有价值和在法律上可辩护的举措的工作之后，使本指南适用于更广泛的机构和情况，其中法律的先例可能以不同的方式适用，还有其他内在的知识价值。 AAAS将通过两个研讨会达到高等教育的各个部分？与五个认可的高等教育组织合作。 这些技术援助研讨会将为总法律顾问、学术领袖和项目管理人员搭建联邦法律与机构实践的桥梁。 该项目的重点是如何通过增加弱势群体和代表性不足的群体在STEM教育和职业中的参与来加强美国STEM劳动力。不同的法律适用于教师搜索，招聘和晋升（在工作场所）以及学生访问，支持和成功。 该项目解决这两个问题，并以研究和评估为基础的方案和做法的真实的例子。补充材料，例如，此外，还将制作社区学院以及在项目前一阶段创建的深入法律的分析和方案指南。NSF的表演者社区，以及更普遍的高等教育机构，是这些媒体的目标受众。

AAAS will conduct a one-year project that builds on over five years of work exploring how federal and state law and policy impact the operation of programs designed to support underrepresented faculty and students on university campuses. Intellectual Merit. Having undertaken the work of identifying worthy and legally defensible initiatives, there is additional intrinsic intellectual merit in making this guidance relevant to a broader array of institutions and situations where legal precedent may apply differently. AAAS will reach various segments of higher education through two workshops?in partnership with five endorsing higher education organizations. These technical assistance workshops will bridge federal law to institutional practice for general counsels, academic leaders, and program administrators.Broader Impacts. The project focus is how to strengthen the U.S. STEM work force by increasing participation by disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in STEM education and careers. Different bodies of law apply to faculty search, hiring, and advancement (in the workplace) and to student access, support, and success. The project addresses both, with real examples of programs and practices that are research and evaluation-based. Supplementary materials on, e.g., community colleges plus in-depth legal analysis and program guidelines created in the previous phase of the project, will also be produced. The NSF performer community, and higher education institutions more generally, are the targeted audience for these media.