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

全国包容性和多样性STEM教师联盟（NAIDSF）是一个NSF INCLUDES联盟，旨在提高整个中学后教育中STEM代表性不足群体（URG）学生的学习，坚持和完成，从而增加他们对美国的贡献。扩大STEM劳动力的参与将带来多样化的观点，提高我们国家解决复杂社会挑战的能力，并扩大技术和创新型经济。该联盟的总体战略是在机构，区域和国家层面的三个互动变革战略中改善STEM教师的专业发展和招聘做法。为了促进制度变革，NAIDSF将帮助机构检查他们的招聘，雇用和保留URG教师的做法;提高教师的包容性做法;制定行动计划，以增加STEM教师之间的多样性;提供资源，以帮助实施所需的改革;并为下一代多样化的机构领导人提供培训。认识到2年制大学教师的职业道路往往发生在区域生态系统内，NAIDSF的区域变革倡议将建立2年制大学，4年制区域大学，地方研究型大学，和私营部门-所有共同发展和入职更多的教师谁是在教学不同的学生群体和增加不同的教师在2-一年制大学，许多URG学生开始高等教育。NAIDSF将寻求通过与学科，URG为重点，专业发展组织合作，使教师的学科经验与通过联盟的机构和区域变革举措培养的机构经验相一致的国家变革。这些努力将共同创造和推进STEM教师，STEM部门，学科协会和机构领导的国家系统性变革。由公立和赠地大学协会（APLU）和研究，教学和学习一体化中心（CIRTL），50多所大学，三个区域合作伙伴（爱荷华州、加州和得克萨斯州），以及超过35个跨部门合作伙伴已经承诺共同实现联盟的目标。利用集体影响力跨部门（不同的机构类型和学科社会）以及跨系统（机构领导人，部门，教师和专业发展系统）工作，该联盟旨在加强包容性做法的使用，以增加国家STEM教师在机构，区域和国家层面的多样性。将通过一项全面计划对各项目标进行评估，该计划在变革流内部和整个联盟提供形成性和总结性评估。将使用一套通用的衡量标准来调整联盟的活动和重点。NAIDSF包括研究和评估小组，评估联盟的变革理论、直接影响和对合作进程的反馈。结合CIRTL在共享领导决策方面的成功以及APLU与多个机构领导人团体的合作，领导团队将制定和共享联盟政策，协调工作流程中的活动，并与合作伙伴和相关工作的领导人合作。联盟骨干将整个项目连接起来，协调和整合各项活动，并提供一个多方面的通信结构。联盟计划的设计是模块化的，便携式的，适应性强，使其在规模，资源和使命不同的机构和学科团体中都是可访问和可持续的。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟由NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划共同资助，该奖项旨在增加STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的少数民族教师的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。

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.