ADVANCE Adaptation - ASCEND: Adaptations for a Sustainable Climate of Excellence and Diversity

NSF ADVANCE项目旨在通过识别和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教师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、过程、实践以及组织文化和气候中。ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术和非学术非营利组织的适应和采用基于证据的战略提供支持。田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校（UT）适应项目将适应其他机构ADVANCE项目的成熟举措，以改变UT的校园氛围，减少STEM学科女性教师的招聘、雇用、保留和晋升方面的差距。该项目被称为适应卓越和多样性的可持续气候（ASCEND）。ASCEND计划针对UT确定的三个具体制度问题：(1)内隐偏见文化（UT- climb），(2)社会和专业隔离经验（UT- connects），以及(3)缺乏对工作与生活融合的支持（UTWINS）。该项目的目的不是促进妇女融入有问题的工作文化，而是确定和改变校园工作文化中有问题的方面。ASCEND ut - climb活动将致力于提高人们对STEM中的隐性偏见及其对制度政策和非正式做法的影响的认识，减少隐性偏见和制度歧视，并促进正在进行的对话和部门公平联盟。UT- connects活动将增加在UT招聘和保留的STEM女性教师的数量，提高STEM女性教师的归属感，增加跨学科合作的数量，提高满意度和生产力。UT-WINS活动将提高对育儿假政策的满意度，更公平的服务负荷分配和对“无形”服务的认可，并转变对这些政策及其使用的态度。UT ADVANCE适应项目将利用该机构的交叉性学者社区，这是一个跨学科的教师团体，对交叉研究，理论和行动感兴趣和专业知识。ASCEND将给UT校园带来一种意识，即隐性偏见的交叉性，它在所有层面都有正式和非正式的影响，而且不仅仅发生在招聘阶段。它将通过IDIAS研究文摘和在线数据库广泛传播这一认识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic and non-academic non-profit organizations.University of Tennessee Knoxville (UT) Adaptation project will adapt proven initiatives from ADVANCE programs at other institutions to transform the campus climate at UT and reduce disparities in the recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement of women faculty in STEM disciplines. The project is called the Adaptions for a Sustainable Climate of Excellence and Diversity (ASCEND). The ASCEND initiatives target three specific institutional issues identified by UT: (1) a culture of implicit bias (UT-CLIMBS), (2) experience of social and professional isolation (UT-CONNECTS), and (3) lack of support for work-life integration (UTWINS). The project is not designed to facilitate the assimilation of women into problematic work cultures, but rather to identify and change problematic aspects of campus work cultures. ASCEND UT-CLIMBS activities will work to increase awareness of implicit bias in STEM and its implications on institutional policies and informal practices, reduce implicit bias and institutional discrimination, and facilitate ongoing dialogue and departmental equity allies. UT-CONNECTS activities will increase the number of female STEM faculty recruited to and retained at UT, improve the sense of belonging among STEM women faculty, increase the number of interdisciplinary collaborations, and satisfaction and productivity. UT-WINS activities will increase satisfaction with parental leave policies, more equitable service load distributions and recognition of "invisible" service, and transform attitudes toward these policies and their use. The UT ADVANCE Adaptation project will leverage the institution's Intersectionality Community of Scholars which is an interdisciplinary group of faculty with interest and expertise in intersectional research, theory, and action. ASCEND will bring to the UT campus a consciousness of the intersectional nature of implicit bias that has formal and informal implications at all levels and occurs beyond just the hiring phase. It will disseminate this awareness broadly via the IDIAS Research Digest and online database.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.