ADVANCE Adaptation: THRIVE at East Carolina University (ECU): Towards Hiring, Resources, Inclusion, Value and Excellence

NSF ADVANCE适应计划-东卡罗莱纳大学（ECU）的招聘，资源，包容，价值和卓越（THRIVE）将通过解决教师招聘，招聘和晋升政策和实践中根深蒂固的偏见来促进性别平等，并为多元化教师的全面包容和进步提供支持。ECU是一所研究密集型公立大学，位于北卡罗来纳州东部农村。为了克服ECU对性别平等的组织障碍，THRIVE将：1）为教师和领导者实施以证据为基础的多元文化能力专业发展; 2）提供资源和支持网络，以确保妇女，特别是那些因种族，LGBTQ+和其他少数民族地位而被边缘化的妇女，因其贡献而得到认可和奖励，并为她们提供领导机会;以及3）建立一套问责制的做法和激励教师，系主任和院长，以及修改政策和程序的教师手册和单位代码（ECU的章程），以更公平地管理招聘，晋升和终身职位的过程。THRIVE的目标是：1）通过建立包容文化来改变文化; 2）在所有STEM单位为妇女建立支持系统; 3）实施结构性变革。为了实现这些目标，我们将调整倡导者和盟友（A A）计划，在北达科他州州立大学发起。A采取交叉的方法来打破根深蒂固的等级制度。 通过A A，我们将招募，培训和部署历史特权群体的成员，以中断和纠正人际和程序偏见。A A是适应性和可扩展性，以适应不同规模，使命和影响区域的大学。它已经在几所大学成功地情境化和实施，包括克拉克森、俄亥俄州州立大学、罗切斯特理工学院和怀俄明州大学。使用这一行之有效的战略，这一先进的适应赠款将催化持续的，结构性的变化在ECU。在这样做的过程中，繁荣将改变制度环境，以满足最边缘化的教师的经验确定的需求，并支持所有干妇女进步，领导和茁壮成长。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“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织提供基于证据的战略适应和采用支持。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。

The NSF ADVANCE Adaptation Program-Towards Hiring, Resources, Inclusion, Value and Excellence (THRIVE) at East Carolina University (ECU) will foster gender equity by addressing biases entrenched in faculty recruitment, hiring, and advancement policies and practices, as well as provide support for the full inclusion and advancement of a diverse faculty. ECU is a research-intensive public university located in rural eastern North Carolina. To surmount ECU’s organizational barriers to gender equity, THRIVE will: 1) implement evidenced-based multicultural competence professional development for faculty and leaders; 2) provide resources and a network of support to ensure that women, particularly those marginalized by race, LGBTQ+ and other minoritized statuses, are recognized and rewarded for their contributions and afforded opportunities for leadership; and 3) establish a set of accountability practices and incentives for faculty, department chairs, and deans, as well as modify policies and procedures in the Faculty Manual and Unit Codes (ECU's bylaws), to more equitably govern hiring, promotion, and tenure processes. The aims of THRIVE are to: 1) change culture by building a culture of inclusion; 2) create support systems for women in all STEM units; and 3) implement structural change. To meet these goals, we will adapt the Advocates and Allies (A&A) program, initiated at North Dakota State University. A&A takes an intersectional approach to disrupting entrenched hierarchies. Through A&A we will recruit, train, and deploy members of historically privileged groups to interrupt and correct interpersonal and procedural biases. A&A is both adaptable and scalable to universities of different sizes, missions, and regions of influence. It has been successfully contextualized and implemented at several universities including Clarkson, Ohio State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and University of Wyoming. Using this proven strategy, this ADVANCE Adaptation grant will catalyze sustained, structural change at ECU. In so doing, THRIVE will alter the institutional climate to meet the empirically identified needs of the most marginalized faculty and support all STEM women to advance, lead, and thrive. 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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education as well as 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.