ADVANCE Catalyst: Discovery Enabling Systemic Advancement and Faculty Inclusion Across Ranks (DESAFIAR)

加州州立大学海峡群岛(CSUCI)将实施一项名为Desafiar的NSF高级催化剂项目(Discovery Enabling Systallation Advantage And Teachers Including All Rating)。CSUCI非常适合获得Catalyst赠款，因为园区非常重视增加包容性，最近关键行政职位发生了变化，预计园区规模将增长60%。后者将导致STEM教员人数的增加，从而使STEM教员构成发生戏剧性变化。Catalyst的工作将使人们能够对重要的系统性因素有重要的了解，以确保现有和新聘用的教员获得公平的体验。该项目将侧重于四个目标：1)围绕教师招聘和聘用实践的每个阶段实施强有力的数据跟踪；2)探索教师教学和服务负荷中公平和透明的认知和现实；3)审查政策和实践；4)合作制定提高STEM教师多样性的5年计划。为期五年的STEM教师公平计划将包括从数据收集和政策审查中吸取的经验教训，对高级和教师公平相关工作的彻底文献审查，以及通过现场访问高级获奖者和参加ARC网络的会议和网络研讨会咨询CSUCI领导层和高级网络中的其他人员。通过调整由不同类型的机构建模的发现努力，以适应我们的中型地区性公共机构的背景，其中超过一半的注册学生来自STEM历史上代表性不足的群体，或者是低收入和第一代学生，我们将增加对特定股权倡议如何在机构和机构类型中推广的理解。将分享所学到的经验教训，以促进其他机构的类似变化，从而促进学术界和整个STEM队伍的多样化发展。NSF高级计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教员充分参与和提升学术机构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、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“催化剂”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构的机构公平评估和五年教师公平战略计划的制定提供支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) will implement an NSF ADVANCE Catalyst project called DESAFIAR (Discovery Enabling Systemic Advancement and Faculty Inclusion Across Ranks). CSUCI is well positioned for a Catalyst grant, due to a strong campus emphasis on increasing inclusivity, recent changes in critical administrative positions, and an expected 60% growth in campus size. The latter will lead to adding STEM faculty in numbers that allow a dramatic change in the STEM faculty composition. The Catalyst work will enable significant learning about important systemic factors to ensure equitable experiences for current and newly hired faculty. The project will focus on four goals: 1) Implement robust data tracking around each stage of faculty recruitment and hiring practices; 2) Explore perceptions and realities of equity and transparency in faculty teaching and service loads; 3) Review policies and practices; 4) Collaboratively develop a 5-year plan to enhance faculty diversity in STEM. The five-year STEM faculty equity plan will incorporate lessons learned from data collection and policy review, a thorough literature review of ADVANCE and faculty-equity related works, and from consulting with CSUCI leadership and others in the ADVANCE network through site visits to ADVANCE awardees and participation in the ARC Network’s conferences and webinars. By adapting discovery efforts modeled by different types of institutions to our context of a midsize regional public institution where over half of the enrolled students are from groups historically underrepresented in STEM or are lower-income and first-generation students, we will increase understanding of how particular equity initiatives generalize across institutions and institutional types. Lessons learned will be shared to promote analogous changes at other institutions, thus contributing to the development of a diverse STEM workforce in academia and in general.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 "Catalyst" awards provide support for institutional equity assessments and the development of five-year faculty equity strategic plans at an academic, non-profit institution of higher education.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.