Adaptation: Adapting Successful Practices to foster an Inclusive, Respectful, and Equitable Environment (ASPIRE2)

德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UT Dallas)将采用成功的做法，培养一个包容、尊重和公平的环境(ASPIRE2)，以显著和系统地改变校园，扩大和丰富其STEM领域和其他领域的教师多样性。通过ASPIRE2项目，达拉斯大学将调整和实施成功的活动，以促进更具包容性的校园氛围，在STEM领域招聘更多女性(包括有色人种女性和代表不足的少数群体的女性)，并帮助留住STEM和整个校园的所有女性教职员工。该项目的目标是帮助德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校这所主要研究型大学在性别和种族多样性方面更好地反映和代表世界。通过这样做，德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校可以更好地为社区、州和国家服务，帮助解决终身教职女性不成比例缺乏的国家危机，特别是在STEM领域。预计ASPIRE2项目的成果将带来结构和文化转型，并以创新和交叉的方式解决长期存在的问题。ASPIRE2的活动包括：气候(将对院长、系/项目负责人和教职员工进行培训；将成立系/项目负责人理事会；将制定倡导者和盟友计划；将管理两年一次的气候调查；将建立大学和个别学校的公平仪表板)、鉴定和招聘(活动包括未来的教师职业发展研讨会，密切关注搜索委员会的组成和培训，并为搜索委员会提供教师联系人)，以及保留和提升(加强现有的教师指导计划，创建STEM中的女性员工资源小组，并扩大现有的教师晋升和终身教职研讨会)。该项目将改善德克萨斯大学达拉斯校区的氛围，同时扩大女性教职员工的参与和成功，特别是有色人种女性和代表人数较少的少数群体的女性。在现有努力的基础上，德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校已做好准备，通过调整之前经过审查的举措，并通过ASPIRE2活动加强整个校园内管理人员、教职员工和员工之间的关系，从而创造一个更受欢迎和更具包容性的环境。不断增加的教师多样性将推动新的研究合作，同时丰富教学、学习和整体学生体验。NSF高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员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、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“适应”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构以及非学术、非营利性组织提供调整和采用循证策略的支持。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 University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) will be Adapting Successful Practices to foster an Inclusive, Respectful, and Equitable Environment (ASPIRE2) to significantly and systematically transform the campus in ways that will expand and enrich the diversity of its faculty in STEM fields and beyond. Through the ASPIRE2 Project, UT Dallas will adapt and implement successful activities to foster a more inclusive campus climate, recruit more women in STEM fields, (including women of color and women from underrepresented minority groups), and aid in the retention of all women faculty, in STEM and across campus. The goal of the project is help UT Dallas, a major research university, better reflect and represent the world in terms of gender and racial diversity. By doing so, UT Dallas can better serve its community, state and country, helping solve the national crisis of the disproportionate lack of tenured-system women, especially in STEM fields. The outcomes of the ASPIRE2 Project are expected to bring about structural and cultural transformation and tackle persistent problems in innovative and intersectional ways. The ASPIRE2 activities include: Climate (training for deans, department/program heads, and faculty will be conducted; a department/program head council will be formed; an Advocates and Allies Program will be developed; a biennial climate survey will be administered; and equity dashboards for the University and individual schools will be instituted), Identification and Recruitment (Activities include future faculty career development workshops, paying careful attention to the composition of and training for search committees, and providing faculty liaisons to search committees), and Retention and Advancement (strengthening the existing faculty mentoring program, creating a Women in STEM employee resource group, and augmenting existing workshops for faculty promotion and tenure). This project will enhance the climate on the UT Dallas campus while broadening the participation and success among women faculty, particularly women of color and women from underrepresented minority groups. Building on existing efforts, UT DALLAS is well-poised to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment by adapting previously vetted initiatives and strengthening the relationships across campus between administrators, faculty, and staff through the ASPIRE2 activities. Increasing faculty diversity will fuel new research collaborations while enriching teaching, learning and the overall student experience. 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.