Collaborative Research: NSF INCLUDES Alliance: National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty (NAIDSF)

全国STEM包容性和多样性教师联盟(NAIDSF)是一个NSF包括联盟，旨在提高STEM中代表不足群体(URG)的学生在整个高等教育过程中的学习、坚持性和完成率，从而增加他们对美国STEM事业的贡献。扩大STEM劳动力的参与将带来不同的视角，提高我们国家解决复杂社会挑战的能力，并扩大以技术和创新为基础的经济。该联盟的总体战略是通过机构、地区和国家层面的三个互动变革战略，改善STEM教师的专业发展和招聘实践。为了促进机构变革，NAIDSF将帮助机构审查其招聘、聘用和保留URG教师的做法；加强教师包容性做法；制定行动计划，增加STEM教师的多样性；提供资源，帮助实施必要的改革；并为下一代不同的机构领导者提供培训。NAIDSF认识到，两年制学院的教师职业道路往往发生在地区生态系统中，NAIDSF的地区变化计划将建立由两年制学院、四年制地区大学、当地研究型大学和私营部门组成的地区合作伙伴--所有这些都共同培养和进入更多擅长教授不同学生群体的教师，并增加两年制学院的不同教师数量，许多URG学生都是从这些学院开始接受高等教育的。NAIDSF将通过与以URG为重点的学科和专业发展组织合作，寻求国家变革，使教师的纪律经验与他们通过联盟的机构和地区变革倡议培养的机构经验保持一致。这些努力将为STEM教员、STEM系、学科学会和机构领导层创造和推进全国性的系统性变革。以公立和赠地大学协会(APLU)和研究、教学和学习整合中心(CIRTL)为支撑，50多所大学、三个地区合作伙伴(爱荷华州、加利福尼亚州和德克萨斯州)和超过35个跨行业合作伙伴已经承诺共同实现联盟的目标。该联盟利用集体影响力，跨部门(不同的机构类型和学科协会)以及跨系统(机构领导人、部门、教师和专业发展系统)开展工作，旨在加强包容性做法的使用，以增加国家STEM教师在机构、地区和国家层面的多样性。将通过一项综合计划对目标进行评估，该计划在变化流内和整个联盟范围内提供形成性和总结性评估。将使用一套通用指标来调整整个联盟的活动和重点。NAIDSF包括评估联盟关于变化、直接影响和协作过程反馈的理论的研究和评估团队。将CIRTL在共享领导决策方面的成功与APLU与多个机构领导人小组的接触结合在一起，领导团队将制定和分享联盟政策，协调工作流程中的活动，并与合作和相关工作的领导人接触。连接整个项目，联盟主干将协调和整合各项活动，并提供多方面的沟通结构。联盟计划的设计是模块化、可移植和可适应的，使其在规模、资源和使命各不相同的机构和学科组中都可访问和可持续。这个NSF包括联盟由NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)计划共同资助，该计划旨在增加STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。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 National Alliance for Inclusive and Diverse STEM Faculty (NAIDSF) is an NSF INCLUDES Alliance which intends to increase the learning, persistence, and completion of students from underrepresented groups (URG) in STEM throughout postsecondary education, and thereby increase their contributions to the U.S. STEM enterprise. Broadening participation in the STEM workforce will bring diverse perspectives, improving our nation's ability to solve complex social challenges, and expanding the technological and innovation-based economy. The Alliance's overarching strategy is to improve professional development and hiring practices of STEM faculty across three interactive change strategies at institutional, regional, and national levels. To facilitate Institutional Change, NAIDSF will help institutions examine their practices for recruiting, hiring, and retaining URG faculty; enhance faculty inclusive practices; develop action plans to increase diversity among STEM faculty; provide resources to help implement needed reforms; and provide training for the next generation of diverse institutional leaders. Recognizing that career pathways for faculty at 2-year colleges often occur within regional ecosystems, NAIDSF's Regional Change initiative will build Regional Collaboratives of 2-year colleges, 4-year regional universities, local research universities, and the private sector--all collectively developing and onboarding more faculty who are skilled in teaching diverse student populations and increasing the number of diverse faculty in the 2-year colleges where many URG students begin higher education. NAIDSF will seek National Change by partnering with disciplinary, URG-focused, and professional development organizations to align faculty disciplinary experiences with their institutional experiences that are fostered through the Alliance's Institutional and Regional Change initiatives. Together, these efforts will create and advance national systemic change for STEM faculty, STEM departments, disciplinary societies, and institutional leadership.Anchored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), over 50 universities, three regional collaboratives (Iowa, California, and Texas), and more than 35 cross-sector partners have already committed to collectively achieving the Alliance goals. Using collective impact to work across sectors (diverse institutional types and disciplinary societies) as well as across systems (institutional leaders, departments, faculty, and professional development systems), the Alliance aims to enhance the use of inclusive practices to increase the diversity of the national STEM faculty at the institutional, regional, and national levels. Goals will be evaluated through a comprehensive plan providing both formative and summative assessments within the change streams and across the Alliance. A set of common metrics will be used to align activities and foci across the Alliance. NAIDSF includes both research and evaluation teams assessing the Alliance's theories of change, immediate impacts, and feeding back on collaborative processes. Integrating CIRTL's success in shared leadership decision-making and APLU's engagement with multiple groups of institutional leaders, the leadership team will develop and share Alliance policies, coordinate activities across workstreams, and engage with leaders of partnering and related efforts. Connecting the entire project, the Alliance backbone will coordinate and integrate activities and provide a multifaceted communications structure. Alliance programming is designed to be modular, portable, and adaptable, making it both accessible and sustainable at both institutions and disciplinary groups that vary in size, resources, and mission.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which targets increasing the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM disciplines.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.