ADVANCE Partnership: ACCESS+ Initiative to Leverage STEM Professional Societies to Accelerate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Systemic Change in STEM Academic Professions

经过20年的ADVANCE资助的研究与性别有关的多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）的变化战略，问题并不是缺乏基于证据的政策和实践，而是不同的和不系统的认识，知识，并采用这些战略。ACCESS+计划的目标是通过协调和整合STEM专业协会（ProSs）的努力，加快NSF ADVANCE赠款人制定的政策和实践的认识和采用。 ACCESS+倡议将准备和支持一个积极的STEM专业协会（ProS）实践社区，这些专业协会将采取行动加速采用循证政策和实践。ACCESS+提出了三项战略：1）开展以STEM性别为重点的DEI环境扫描; 2）组织年度ACCESS+会议，准备多个STEM ProS边界跨越者小组，以制定DEI行动计划; 3）支持问责制并促进边界跨越者努力，通过建立以STEM ProS性别为重点的DEI实践社区（CoP）来加速采用循证行动计划目标。通过准备和支持选定的STEM ProS“边界跨越者”，ACCESS+倡议将加速集体的国家一级变革，以促进ADVANCE政策和实践。ACCESS+的工作不仅将为STEM ProSs内部和之间的以性别为重点的DEI工作提供信息和补充，还将跨越成员学术机构，以及STEM认证机构、国家实验室、STEM行业和政府的学术影响领域。五个在STEM DEI中具有全国领导地位的合作伙伴组织将利用其独特的资源和网络为拟议的工作提供服务。ADVANCE实施导师（AIM）网络（NSF #0810927）和科学界妇女协会（AWIS）的ADVANCE资源和协调（ARC）网络（NSF #1740860）带来了ADVANCE特定的专业知识和资源。WEPAN在为工程领域的妇女提供服务方面拥有40年的经验（NSF EEC #1445076、HRD GSE #1203164、HRD ESE #0833076、HRD GSE #0648210）。INCLUDES Aspire Alliance（NSF #1834518、1834522、1834510、1834513、1834526、1834521）国家变更团队将拟议的工作与Aspire Alliance和更广泛的INCLUDES工作联系起来。促进STEM成功平等变革联盟（ACCESS）项目（NSF# 1744098）为拟议的ACCESS+倡议提供了概念证明和基础。该项目将在原有ACCESS项目的基础上进行延伸、调整和扩展。 作为学科的“大熔炉”，STEM专业协会（ProSs）不仅服务于学术机构，还服务于学术影响组织，如认证机构，国家实验室，公司和政府代表，因此具有独特的优势，可以加速采用ADVANCE循证战略。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”奖旨在支持STEM专业协会与学术和非学术非营利组织之间的合作，旨在扩大基于证据的公平战略的实施，并具有国家或地区影响力。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。

After two decades of ADVANCE-funded research on gender-related diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) change strategies, the problem is not so much a lack of evidence-based policies and practices, but rather varied and unsystematic awareness, knowledge, and adoption of these strategies. The goal of the ACCESS+ Initiative is to accelerate the awareness and adoption of policies and practices developed by NSF ADVANCE grantees by coordinating and integrating efforts of STEM professional societies (ProSs). The ACCESS+ Initiative will prepare and support a community of practice of motivated STEM Professional Society (ProS) “boundary spanning” change agents who will act to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based policies and practices. ACCESS+ proposes three strategies: 1) conduct a STEM gender-focused DEI Environmental Scan; 2) organize an annual ACCESS+ convening to prepare multiple cohorts of STEM ProS Boundary Spanners to develop DEI Action Plans, and 3) support accountability and promote Boundary Spanner effort to accelerate adoption of evidence-based Action Plan objectives by establishing a STEM ProS gender-focused DEI Community of Practice (CoP). By preparing and supporting selected cohorts of STEM ProS “Boundary Spanners,” the ACCESS+ Initiative will accelerate collective, national-level change to promote ADVANCE policies and practices. ACCESS+ efforts will inform and complement gender-focused DEI efforts not only within and between STEM ProSs, but also across member academic institutions, and the academic-influencing domains of STEM accrediting bodies, national laboratories, STEM industry, and government.Five partner organizations recognized for their national leadership in STEM DEI will leverage their unique resources and networks in service of the proposed work. The ADVANCE Implementation Mentors (AIM) Network (NSF #0810927) and the Association for Women in Science’s (AWIS’s) ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network (NSF #1740860) bring ADVANCE-specific expertise, and resources. WEPAN brings 40 years of experience in serving women in the engineering domain (NSF EEC #1445076, HRD GSE #1203164, HRD ESE# 0833076, HRD GSE #0648210). The INCLUDES Aspire Alliance (NSF #1834518, 1834522, 1834510, 1834513, 1834526, 1834521) National Change Team connects the proposed work to the Aspire Alliance and broader INCLUDES efforts. The Alliance to Catalyze Change for Equity in STEM Success (ACCESS) Project (NSF# 1744098) provides proof of concept and the foundation for the proposed ACCESS+ Initiative. This project will extend, adapt, and expand upon the original ACCESS Project. As disciplinary “melting pots,” STEM professional societies (ProSs) serve not only academic institutions but also academic-influencing organizations like accrediting agencies, national laboratories, corporations, and government representatives, and thus are uniquely positioned to accelerate adoption of ADVANCE evidence-based strategies. 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 to collaborations among STEM professional societies and academic and non-academic non-profit organizations designed to broaden the implementation of evidence-based equity strategies and have a national or regional reach.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.