ADVANCE Adaptation: Gender Equity Advances Retention in STEM at Wayne State University (WSU GEARS)

韦恩州立大学（WSU）是密歇根州底特律市中心的一所城市校园。WSU GEARS ADVANCE项目侧重于系统性的制度和文化变革，将WSU推向一个归属感和重视多样性的地方，在那里女性STEM教师茁壮成长并取得成功。2010年，女性在STEM教师中的比例不到14%。WSU开始通过加强对常规搜索程序的监督和强调多样性价值和隐含偏见风险的研讨会来解决这种性别不平衡问题。其结果是妇女在WSU的干教师稳步增加到2018年的20%;值得注意的是，这些妇女中只有不到3%是代表性不足的少数民族。虽然世界大学继续增加这些数字，并加强妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的成功途径，但解决所有机构层面的结构性挑战仍然是一个优先事项。WSU GEARS将利用WSU和NSF ADVANCE同行机构制定的成功干预策略。WSU GEARS ADVANCE适应项目将通过系统性变革，减少STEM教师中女性和代表性不足的少数群体的不平等现象。WSU GEARS ADVANCE适应项目将通过利用现有的势头和合作，在部门，学院和大学层面调整相关政策和实践，重塑校园包容文化。具体而言，该项目将解决WSU校园STEM中雇用，晋升和保留妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的三个障碍：（1）有毒的工作环境，（2）工作/家庭/生活压力，（3）不平等的工作负担。为了克服这些障碍，WSU GEARS将通过以下综合途径调整在先前的ADVANCE计划下开发的经过验证的计划：细致入微的数据收集，为政策和实践提供信息（韦恩驱动器），增强现有的WSU计划（韦恩移位），以及创建新的WSU计划（韦恩加速）。WSU GEARS项目将：1）促进成功的计划，改善校园气氛，并在STEM教师的招聘和保留中创造更大的公平; 2）确定STEM中女性和代表性不足的少数民族的其他障碍，特别是交叉身份，需要在当前计划之外解决; 3）提供细致入微的数据，以指导女性和代表性不足的少数民族的机构改进。WSU致力于在奖励期限之外维持成果，并将投资于将成功的计划制度化，以继续实施积极的系统性变革。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。

Wayne State University (WSU) is an urban campus in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. WSU GEARS ADVANCE project focuses on systemic institutional and cultural change to move WSU toward a place of belonging and valuing diversity where women STEM faculty thrive and succeed. In 2010, women comprised under 14% of STEM faculty. WSU began to address this gender imbalance through increased oversight of regular search procedures and by workshops that stressed the value of diversity and the risks of implicit bias. The result was a steady increase of women in WSU’s STEM faculty to 20% in 2018; notably less than 3% of these women were underrepresented minorities. While WSU has continued to increase these numbers and strengthen pathways for success of women and underrepresented minorities, addressing structural challenges at all institutional levels remains a priority. WSU GEARS will leverage successful intervention strategies developed by WSU and NSF ADVANCE peer institutions. This project will reshape the campus inclusion culture by capitalizing on existing momentum and collaborations, adapting relevant policies and practices at departmental, college, and university levels.The WSU GEARS ADVANCE Adaptation Project will reduce inequities for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM faculty through systemic change. Specifically, this project will tackle three barriers to the hiring, promotion, and retention of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM on the WSU campus: (1) toxic work environments, (2) work/family/life strains, and (3) unequal workload burdens. To overcome these barriers, WSU GEARS will adapt proven programs developed under prior ADVANCE programs through the following integrated tracks: nuanced data collection to inform policies and practices (Wayne Drives), enhancement of existing WSU programs (Wayne Shifts), and creation of new WSU programs (Wayne Accelerates). The WSU GEARS Project will: 1) promote successful programs that improve campus climate and create greater equity among STEM faculty in hiring and retention; 2) identify additional barriers for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM, especially for intersecting identities, that need to be tackled beyond the current programs; and 3) provide nuanced data to guide institutional improvements for women and underrepresented minorities. WSU is committed to sustaining outcomes beyond the award term and will invest in institutionalizing successful programs to continue to enact positive systemic change. 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 institution 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.