FAMU ADVANCE IT: Using Cultural Humility to Balance the Institutional and Intersectional Barriers to Equity for STEM Faculty

ADVANCE项目旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和进步的组织障碍，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。ADVANCE机构转型（advanced - it）轨道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）学术劳动力中的性别平等。佛罗里达农业机械大学（FAMU）是美国历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）之一，致力于改变其制度氛围和文化，以支持STEM领域的性别平等和女性教师的进步。FAMU ADVANCE- it项目将通过努力提高对文化谦逊在决策中的作用的认识，并通过实施各种ADVANCE举措，包括政策审查和变革，以及专注于STEM女性教师的持续和保留的支持项目，如专业发展、职业指导和指导，来促进性别平等。这个项目对于了解如何增加HBCUs STEM教师的多样性很重要，HBCUs的教师并不总是反映HBCUs学生群体的多样性。该项目将通过在ADVANCE干预措施和拟议研究中注入文化谦逊的概念，扩大对HBCUs女性STEM教师发展障碍和战略的有限研究。在这一提议的背景下，文化谦逊是一种意识，即没有性别/学科/种族/宗教是规范，每个人都属于FAMU的学术环境。在一所大型HBCU对黑人女性和其他有色人种女性在STEM领域的研究，将通过在黑人女性学生占多数、但黑人女性STEM教师占少数的背景下研究这一现象，扩展对交叉性的研究。此外，研究有色人种女性的群体内差异将有助于对HBCUs性别问题的复杂性有更深层次的交叉理解，同时也有助于更细致地构建挑战和成功因素的框架。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 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.Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is one of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and is committed to transforming its institutional climate and culture in support of gender equity and advancement of women faculty in STEM. The FAMU ADVANCE-IT project will promote gender equity by working to increase awareness of the role of cultural humility in decision-making and by implementing various ADVANCE initiatives including policy review and changes and support programs focused on the persistence and retention of women faculty in STEM such as professional development, career coaching, and mentoring. This project is important to understand how to increase the diversity of STEM faculty at HBCUs, the faculty at HBCUS does not always reflect the student population diversity at HBCUs.This project will expand the limited research on barriers to and strategies for advancement of women STEM faculty at HBCUs by infusing the concept of cultural humility in the ADVANCE interventions and in the proposed research. In the context of this proposal, cultural humility is the awareness that no gender/discipline/race/religion is the norm and that everyone belongs in FAMU's academic setting. The examination of Black women and other women of color in STEM at a large HBCU will extend the research of intersectionality by examining this phenomenon in a context where Black women students are the majority, but where Black women STEM faculty are the minority. Additionally, studying within-group differences of women of color will offer a deeper intersectional understanding of the complexities of gender issues at HBCUs, while also advancing more nuanced framing of challenges and factors for success.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.