ADVANCE Partnership: Promoting Equity and Inclusion to Facilitate Retention of Faculty through Evidence- and Place-Based Intervention Training

加州大学河滨分校(UCR)协作性NSF高级合作伙伴项目(COE Advance)旨在发展一种组织文化和氛围，更好地促进工程学教师的公平和包容。这将通过建立对排他性行为的认识和理解以及实施旁观者培训来实现。该项目将影响整个加州大学(UC)系统中工程学院(CoE)的个人和组织变革，从加州大学伯恩斯工程学院(BCOE)开始，通过与加州大学工程学院院长理事会的合作，扩展到所有其他UC CoE。项目目标包括：(1)提高个人和组织对整个加州大学系统COE内的文化和氛围的认识和了解，特别是当它们影响女性和在交叉性的背景下；(2)培养组织领导人、盟友和来自各系和学院的合作者，为所有教职员工提供旁观者干预培训，并树立促进公平和包容的行为模式；(3)使教职员工能够应用旁观者干预策略，以促进积极的组织文化和氛围，鼓励公平的态度，并促进系统变革；以及(4)阐明任职人数不足的教职员工的跨部门经验和对变革的抵制。该项目与ADVANCEGeo：从课堂到现场：改善地球科学中的工作场所(#1725879)合作，国家科学基金会包括：利用实地活动网络促进合作变革(#1835055)项目。COE高级项目将导致：(1)整个加州大学系统的工程学教师更多地理解和采用策略，以识别和解决排他性做法；(2)可用于多种高等教育背景的干预模式，以促进科技、教育、教育、教师和学生的公平和包容；(3)来自UC系统内COE各部门的组织领导网络，致力于为公平和包容建模，并连接到AdvanceGEO，包括合作伙伴及其网络；以及(4)改善整个UC系统COE教职员工的文化和氛围。该项目支持系统性和可持续变革的重要元素包括：学院、大学和加州大学系统层面的领导力参与；部门内部组织领导人作为盟友和共谋者的发展；以及通过部门集中培训(培训培训者模式)赋予教职员工权力。培训材料和研究方法将通过与AdvanceGEO和NSF包括的项目建立伙伴关系来开发。这些项目合作伙伴带来了在以地点为基础的背景下应用这种方法的经验。COE高级研究方法、数据、交付成果和成果将有助于增加关于旁观者干预计划的知识和出版文献，以及促进学术界公平和包容的努力。虽然 Advance侧重于包容STEM教师，但组织文化和氛围的系统性变化也将对学生和员工产生积极影响。 Advance计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍不同教师在学术机构充分参与和晋升的组织障碍来促进性别公平。COE Advance可能在政策、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中存在阻碍公平的组织障碍。COE Advance“伙伴关系”奖为那些扩大基于证据的系统性变革战略的项目提供支持，以增强地区或国家STEM教师的性别公平。该项目也得到了NSF工程局扩大参与工程(BPE)计划的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 California, Riverside (UCR) Collaborative NSF ADVANCE Partnership project (COE ADVANCE) aims at developing an organizational culture and climate that better promotes equity and inclusion for engineering faculty. This will be achieved by building awareness and understanding of exclusionary behaviors and implementing bystander training. This project will affect individual and organizational change in Colleges of Engineering (COEs) across the University of California (UC) system, starting in the Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE) at UCR and expanding to all other UC COEs, through a partnership with the UC Engineering Deans’ Council. The project objectives include: (1) Increase individual and organizational awareness and understanding of the culture and climate within COEs across the UC system, particularly as they affect women and in the context of intersectionality; (2) Develop organizational leaders, allies, and coconspirators from the departments and colleges to provide bystander intervention training for all faculty and to model behaviors that promote equity and inclusion; (3) Empower faculty to apply bystander intervention strategies that promote positive organizational culture and climate, encourage equitable attitudes, and facilitate systemic change; and (4) Elucidate the intersectional experiences of underrepresented faculty and resistance to change among overrepresented faculty. This project is in partnership with the ADVANCEGeo: From the Classroom to the Field: Improving the Workplace in the Geosciences (#1725879) and NSF INCLUDES: Leveraging Field- Campaign Networks for Collaborative Change (#1835055) projects.The COE ADVANCE project will result in: (1) An increased understanding and adoption of strategies by engineering faculty across the UC system for identifying and addressing exclusionary practices; (2) An intervention model that can be used in multiple higher education contexts to promote equity and inclusion of STEM faculty, staff, and students; (3) A network of organizational leaders from departments within COEs across the UC system who are committed to modeling equity and inclusion, and who are connected to the AdvanceGEO and INCLUDES partners and their networks; and (4) An improved culture and climate for COE faculty across the UC system. Important elements in this project for supporting systemic and sustainable change include: engagement of leadership at the College, University, and UC System levels; development of organizational leaders within departments as allies and co-conspirators; and faculty empowerment through department-centralized training (train-the-trainer model). Training materials and research methods will be developed through the partnerships with the AdvanceGEO and NSF INCLUDES projects. These project partners bring experience in applying such approaches in a place-based context. The COE ADVANCE research methods, data, deliverables, and outcomes will contribute to a growing body of knowledge and published literature on bystander intervention programs, as well as on efforts to promote equity and inclusion in academia. Although COE ADVANCE focuses on inclusion for STEM faculty, systemic shifts in organizational culture and climate will also positively affect students and staff.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 for projects that scale-up evidence based systemic change strategies to enhance gender equity for STEM faculty regionally or nationally. This project is also supported by the NSF Directorate for Engineering's Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program.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.