ADVANCE Adaptation: University of Arkansas Empowering Networked Groups for Arkansas Gender Equity (ENGAGE)

阿肯色大学的国家科学基金会高级适应计划（ENGAGE）的目标是使STEM教师多样化，并确保所有教师都能在我们的环境中茁壮成长。ENGAGE将通过重新想象服务工作的价值和分配方式，解决校园中有色人种女性和白人女性被边缘化和孤立的问题，并将其视为不平等的根源。因此，我们寻求通过以下方式转变为一种包容和认可的文化：1)通过重新分配服务工作量来赋予白人妇女和有色人种妇女权力，以支持研究并使服务义务透明；2)将孤立的白人女性和有色人种女性与活跃的研究团队联系起来；3)吸引和支持白人女性和有色人种女性进入校园。通过这种方式，我们的公平倡议寻求将性别和种族化的逻辑重组为公平的，同时通过提供指导和融入研究团队来解决孤立的经历。阿肯色大学的定位是运用组织理论和ADVANCE奖学金的经验教训来改变大学。从这个项目中预期的文化转变将导致重视所有教师的贡献，并将与全校范围内对跨学科研究、创新和合作的重视相吻合。此外，阿肯色大学适应参与项目将对最近成立的包容性和多样性研究所表示赞赏。NSF ADVANCE项目旨在通过识别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、过程、实践以及组织文化和气候中。ADVANCE“适应”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 goals of the University of Arkansas’s NSF ADVANCE Adaptation program (ENGAGE) are to diversify STEM faculty and assure all faculty can thrive in our environment. ENGAGE will address the marginalization and isolation of women of color and white women on campus as a source of inequality by re-imagining how service work is valued and allotted. Thus, we seek to shift to a culture of inclusivity and recognition through 1) empowering white women and women of color through the redistribution of service workloads to both support research and make service obligations transparent; 2) connecting isolated white women and women of color to active research teams; and 3) attracting and supporting white women and women of color to campus. In this way, our equity initiatives seek to restructure gendered and racialized logics as equitable while addressing the experience of isolation by providing mentoring and integration into research teams.The University of Arkansas is positioned to apply lessons learned from organizations theory and ADVANCE scholarship to change the university. The cultural shift expected from this project will result in valuing the contributions of all faculty and will coincide with a university-wide emphasis on interdisciplinary research, innovation, and collaboration. In addition, the University of Arkansas Adaptation ENGAGE project will compliment a recently launched Institute for Inclusion and Diversity.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.