Work Life Balance Policy for the HBCU Context

这项探索性研究的主要重点是调查北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学以及其他少数民族高等教育机构的工作与生活平衡政策，以促进有色人种STEM女性教师的成功。该项目将：1）扩大NCA T STEM性别平等重点，包括强调有色人种STEM女教师的工作与生活平衡，2）开发适合HBCU背景的标题，以支持HBCU机构政策矩阵的制度化。这是北卡罗来纳州A T大学高级方案和最近由国家科学基金会资助的性别价值观项目之间的一项合作努力，该项目的重点是广泛使用一种机制，收集和编目有利于家庭的机构政策和做法，作为机构化水平和包容性考虑的一个功能。这项合作代表了一项努力，为高等教育机构提供了一个实用和战术的蓝图，以促进STEM女性有色人种教师的灵活工作场所政策和实践，达到戏剧性变化和持续影响所需的精确度。拟议的项目将为推动全国范围内关于在学院实现性别友好氛围相关问题的讨论和讨论做出重大贡献，特别是与STEM领域相关的问题。 一个主要成果将是HBCU机构政策矩阵，可以作为NSF职业生活平衡网站的特色贡献，为研究人员和评估人员提供指导，评估现有机构政策的完整性及其支持STEM女性的潜力。

The primary focus of this exploratory research study is to investigate the work-life balance policies at North Carolina A&T State University, as well as other minority serving institutions of higher education, to promote the success of STEM women faculty of color. The project will: 1) expand the NCA&T STEM gender equity focus to include an emphasis on work-life equilibrium for STEM women faculty of color and 2) develop a rubric, appropriate to the HBCU context, to support the institutionalization of an HBCU Institutional Policy Matrix. This is a collaborative effort between the North Carolina A&T University ADVANCE Program and the recently NSF-funded Gender Values project, which has as its focus to implement widespread use of a mechanism for collecting and cataloguing institutional family friendly policies and practices as a function of levels of institutionalization and consideration for inclusivity. This collaboration represents an effort to provide institutions of higher education with a practical and tactical blueprint for promoting flexible workplace policies and practices for STEM women faculty of color at the level of precision required for dramatic change and sustained impact. The proposed project will contribute significantly to advancing the national discussion and discourse on matters related to achieving gender friendly climates in the academy, particularly as they relate to the STEM fields. A major outcome will be the HBCU Institutional Policy Matrix that can potentially serve as a featured contribution to the NSF Career Life Balance website, providing guidance to researchers and evaluators about the assessment of the integrity of existing institutional policies and their potential to support STEM women faculty of color.