ASU ADVANCE Institutional Transformation

高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和发展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、实践、文化和组织氛围等领域。高级机构转型(Advanced-IT)路径支持高等教育机构内创新组织变革战略的发展，以增强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学术工作中的性别公平。亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)的Advance-IT项目将建立在其成功过渡到跨学科机构结构的基础上，并将其基于公共价值的制度设计思维的运营理论扩展到STEM教职员工的公平问题。以公共价值为基础的制度设计在制度的所有层面上采用设计思维，以制定政策和实践，以促进公共利益的目标。该项目将侧重于通过三项举措改善亚利桑那州立大学中后期职业STEM教师的成果：1)确保招聘、晋升、评估和留用程序明确涉及如何在跨学科结构中提高公平性和多样性；2)提供适当和可获得的职业发展和指导机会；以及3)设计、实施和评估数字管理系统，以监测与公平相关的过程，并授权管理人员进行干预，以确保公平的机会和结果。这项工作很重要，因为科学和工程领域的挑战需要新的方法，而且重要的是确保所有教职员工-包括传统学科和那些作为跨学科学者运作的人-能够取得成功，并且在STEM研究向更多跨学科结构发展的过程中不处于不利地位。亚利桑那州立大学高级研究采取终身课程的方法来支持教授从职业生涯开始到中期，直到高级和领导职位。该项目的社会科学研究部分将使用混合方法来调查交叉性和跨学科的体制结构如何在整个学术生涯中发挥作用。亚利桑那州立大学是一个战略研究网站，非常适合研究学科和跨学科学术在学术生涯中可能发生的变化。亚利桑那州立大学进步计划将能够分析学术生涯中已知的差异基础--性别、种族、民族、性取向、外国出生地位、残疾、排名和学科--如何与跨学科背景相互作用，为学术生涯的发展创造机会和障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 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 areas such as policy, practice, culture, and organizational climate. The ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE-IT) track supports the development of innovative organizational change strategies within an institution of higher education to enhance gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academic workforce.The Arizona State University (ASU) ADVANCE-IT project will build on its successful transition to an interdisciplinary institutional structure and extend their operating theory of public values-based institutional design thinking to issues of equity for STEM faculty. Public values-based institutional design employs design thinking at all levels of the institution to enact policies and practices that forward goals in the public interest. The project will focus on improving outcomes for mid-to-late career STEM faculty at ASU through three initiatives to: 1) ensure that procedures on recruiting, promotion, evaluation, and retention explicitly address how to improve equity and diversity in an interdisciplinary structure; 2) provide appropriate and accessible professional development and mentoring opportunities; and 3) design, implement, and evaluate digital administrative systems to monitor equity-related processes, and empower administrators to intervene to ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes. This work is important since challenges in science and engineering require new approaches and it will be important to ensure all faculty - both traditionally disciplinary as well as those who operate as interdisciplinary scholars - can be successful and are not disadvantaged as STEM research moves toward more interdisciplinary structures.ASU ADVANCE takes a life course approach to support professors from the beginning of the career, into the middle, and through senior and leadership positions. The social science research component of the project will use a mixed-methods approach to investigate how intersectionality and an interdisciplinary institutional structure play out across the academic life course. ASU is a strategic research site uniquely well-suited to study how disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship may change over the academic life course. ASU ADVANCE will enable the analysis of how known bases of difference in the academic life course - gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, foreign-born status, disability, rank, and discipline - interact with the interdisciplinary context to create opportunities and barriers to academic career advancement.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.