ADVANCE Partnership: AccessADVANCE

残疾人发展是NSF的一个发展伙伴关系项目，旨在增加那些在学术科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）职业中被认定为残疾妇女的个人的参与和进步。STEM领域的残疾女教师是一个未被充分研究且往往被忽视的群体。与这一人群有关的问题是特别重要的，因为任何教师可能在他们的职业生涯中的某个时候成为残疾，永久或暂时的解决。为了创造真正包容和公平的学术工作场所，必须系统地解决影响残疾教师的问题。 Accidental ADVANCE项目将促进中学后STEM部门、NSF ADVANCE和NSF INCLUDES项目以及其他组织的系统性变革，使学术职位上的残疾人感到受欢迎，充分融入并取得成功。Accidental ADVANCE将（1）参与全国在线实践社区，（2）提供现场能力建设机构。这种参与的目的是为中学后STEM部门和其他组织制定系统性的变革战略，使他们更欢迎和包容残疾女教师。这些活动的参与者将帮助创造可用于改善学术部门和相关组织中残疾女教师所经历的环境和文化的资源。 该项目还将鼓励残疾女教师及其盟友参与ARC网络和INCLUDES国家网络。 重要的是，该项目将向合作者提供持续的技术援助，以帮助他们改变政策，做法和资源。 最后，该项目将开发与机构做法有关的广泛可用的在线资源，以提高残疾妇女在学术STEM职业中的成功和进步。NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教师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、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖项为学术、非营利高等教育机构和非学术、非营利组织提供支持，以适应和采用基于证据的战略。该奖项反映了NSF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。

AccessADVANCE is an NSF ADVANCE Partnership project that is designed to increase the participation and advancement of individuals who identify as women with disabilities in academic science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Female faculty with disabilities in STEM fields is an understudied and often invisible population. Issues related to this population are particularly important to address because any faculty member may at some point in their career become disabled, permanently, or temporarily. To create truly inclusive and equitable academic workplaces, it is imperative to systematically address issues impacting faculty with disabilities. The AccessADVANCE project will facilitate systemic changes within postsecondary STEM departments, NSF ADVANCE and NSF INCLUDES projects, and other organizations such that those with disabilities in academic positions feel welcome, are fully included, and can achieve success.AcccessADVANCE will (1) engage a nationwide online community of practice and (2) provide on-site capacity-building institutes. The purpose of this engagement is to develop systemic change strategies for postsecondary STEM departments and other organizations that make them more welcoming to and inclusive of female faculty with disabilities. Participants in these activities will help create resources that can be used to improve the climate and culture experienced by female faculty with disabilities in academic departments and relevant organizations. The project will also encourage engagement of female faculty with disabilities and their allies in the ARC Network and the INCLUDES National Network. Importantly, the project will provide ongoing technical assistance to collaborators to help make changes to their policies, practices, and resources. Finally, the project will develop widely available online resources related to institutional practices to increase the success and advancement of women with disabilities in academic STEM careers. 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 "Partnership" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institution of higher education and non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.