APLU NSF INCLUDES: A Collective Impact Approach to Broadening Participation in the STEM Professoriate

公立和赠地大学协会(APLU)将领导这项设计和开发启动试点活动，旨在增加APLU成员大学STEM教师的数量，这些群体来自代表性不足和传统上服务不足的群体：妇女、历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)、残疾人(PWD)和低社会经济背景的人。这个项目是为了响应全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)计划征集(NSF 16-544)而创建的。INCLUDE计划是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在加强美国在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)发现和创新方面的领导地位，重点是NSF对这些领域的多样性、包容性和扩大参与的承诺。Include Design and Development Launch Pilot代表了解决STEM不断扩大的参与度挑战的大胆、创新的方法。美国所有STEM人才的充分参与对于推动科学和工程为国家安全、健康和繁荣服务至关重要。我国正在推进知识和实践，以解决STEM成就和STEM大专学生之间的毕业差距，这些STEM学生是女性、URM、PWD，以及来自低社会经济背景的人，与男性、非URM、非PWD以及来自中等和较高社会经济背景的人之间的毕业差距。与此同时，美国的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提拔多样化的STEM教师，作为历史上代表性不足和传统上服务不足的学生的榜样和学术领袖，让他们向他们学习、与他们合作和效仿。NSF最近的报告显示，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有四年制学院和大学中占据了8%的高级教职职位，在全国最密集的研究机构中约占6%。APLU包括：以集体影响的方法扩大STEM专业人员的参与有可能推动一个全国性的组织网络，以提高STEM教师职位中女性、URM、残疾人和来自低社会经济背景的人的代表性，最终为全国各地STEM本科生和研究生提供URM STEM榜样。APLU将与多个组织密切合作，以实现关键目标，包括美国科学促进会、研究、教学和学习一体化中心、高等教育学术职业合作委员会、机构合作委员会(最近更名为十大学术联盟)、研究生院委员会、佛罗里达教育基金会的麦克奈特博士奖学金计划、南部地区教育委员会州博士奖学金计划和加州大学校长办公室。该网络计划将APLU成员机构和专家联系在一起，以(1)开发和测试一套用于招聘、聘用、留住和支持教师的诊断工具和实践，(2)确定一套机构活动，以增加STEM通往教授的道路上的参与，让一组机构共同实施一项或多项活动，以及(3)评估现有数据源和指标的充分性和覆盖面，可用于跟踪学生从进入专上教育到教授资格的过程。

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) will lead this Design and Development Launch Pilot to conduct activities aimed to increase the number of STEM faculty at APLU member universities from underrepresented and traditionally underserved groups: Women, historically underrepresented minorities (URM), persons with disabilities (PWD), and people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This project was created in response to the Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) program solicitation (NSF 16-544). The INCLUDES program is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations focused on NSF's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in these fields. The INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots represent bold, innovative ways for solving a broadening participation challenge in STEM. The full participation of all of America's STEM talent is critical to the advancement of science and engineering for national security, health and prosperity. Our nation is advancing knowledge and practices to address a STEM achievement and the graduation gap between postsecondary STEM students who are women, URM, PWD, and persons from low socioeconomic backgrounds and males, non-URM, non-PWD, and persons from middle and upper socioeconomic backgrounds. At the same time U.S. universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote a diverse STEM faculty as role models and academic leaders for historically underrepresented and traditionally underserved students to learn from, to work with and to emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of the senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The APLU INCLUDES: A Collective Impact Approach to Broadening Participation in the STEM Professoriate has the potential to advance a national network of organizations to improve the representation of women, URMs, PWDs and persons from low socioeconomic backgrounds in STEM faculty positions, eventually providing URM STEM role models to STEM undergraduate and graduate students at postsecondary academic institutions across the Nation.APLU will work closely with multiple organizations to address key objectives, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (recently renamed the Big Ten Academic Alliance), the Council of Graduate Schools, the Florida Education Fund's McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program, Southern Regional Education Board State Doctoral Scholars Program and the University of California's Office of the President. Together this network plans to connect APLU member institutions and experts to (1) develop and test a set of diagnostic tools and practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining and supporting faculty, to (2) identify a set of institutional activities to increase participation along STEM pathways toward the professoriate, to engage a group of institutions to collectively implement one or more of the activities, and to (3) evaluate the adequacy and coverage current data sources and metrics available to track students from entry into postsecondary education through the professoriate.