Understanding the Barriers to Institutional Success in STEM at Central Michigan University

中密歇根大学(CMU)将实施一项高级催化剂项目，以进行教师氛围校园调查、对CMU STEM教师的焦点小组访谈、对离开CMU的STEM教师和拒绝录用的候选人的访谈。该项目将包括文件和机构数据分析，以了解CMU STEM女教员取得成功的障碍。此外，该项目将分析这些障碍如何根据学术部门、种族/民族和/或世界原籍地区的不同而相似或不同。项目小组将访问其他先进机构，了解它们在类似问题上的成功和挣扎，并将邀请专家演讲者来到CMU。他们将为STEM系的教师举办一项试点隐性偏见培训计划，并了解更多关于隐性偏见及其在CMU工作场所的表现，为教师公平战略计划的制定提供信息。这个为期两年的项目将为大学未来收集和分析教师公平的数据做好准备，机构领导层可以利用这些数据为决策提供信息。促进会的工作还将使该机构做好准备，实施循证战略，以改善所有教员的大学氛围，这将在作为该项目一部分编制的五年教员公平战略计划中概述。NSF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、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“催化剂”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年教师公平战略计划的制定提供支持。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。

Central Michigan University (CMU) will implement an ADVANCE Catalyst project to undertake faculty climate campus survey, focus group interviews with STEM faculty at CMU, interviews with STEM faculty who left CMU and candidates who turned down employment offers. The project will include document and institutional data analyses to understand the barriers to success for STEM women faculty at CMU. Furthermore, the project will analyze how these barriers are similar or different depending on the academic department, race/ethnicity, and/or world region of origin. The project team will visit other ADVANCE institutions to learn about their success and struggles with similar issues and will invite expert speakers to come to CMU. They will host a pilot implicit bias training program for faculty in STEM departments and learn more about implicit bias and how it plays out in the CMU workplace to inform the development of the faculty equity strategic plan. This two-year project will prepare the university for future data collection and data analyses of faculty equity which can be used by institutional leadership to inform decision-making. The Catalyst work will also prepare the institution to implement evidence-based strategies to enhance the university climate for all faculty which will be outlined in a five-year faculty equity strategic plan that will be produced as part of this project. 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 "Catalyst" awards provide support for institutional equity assessments and the development of five-year faculty equity strategic plans at an academic, non-profit institution of higher education.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.