ADVANCE Partnership: Kindling Inter-university Networks for Diverse (KIND) Engineering Faculty Advancement in the California State University System

ADVANCE合作项目名为“在加州州立大学（CSU）系统项目（KIND）中为多样化工程学院发展点燃校际网络”，将汇集四个CSU校区：CSU， Fresno；CSU，洛杉矶；圣何塞州立大学；与加州理工大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校合作，建立一个系统范围的项目，以开发、交付和测试系统干预措施，以支持CSU工程教授中女性的雇佣、保留和晋升。KIND项目与NSF INCLUDES ASPIRE机构变革网络合作，该网络使用数据驱动的自我评估来识别教师招聘、保留和晋升方面的不平等，以支持系统变革。该项目的目标是带来组织变革，以解决影响科罗拉多州立大学工程学院教师的系统性性别不平等问题，特别是来自美国科学和工程领域代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的女性（有色人种女性），以及在美国以外出生和/或接受过科学和工程培训的女性（外国出生/外国培训（FB/FT）教师）。这项工作意义重大，因为它将有助于理解和解决系统性的性别平等问题，这些问题对于FB/FT教师以及国内种族和民族多元化的教师来说既相似又不同。KIND项目将1)创建一个安全的仪表盘，其中包含与科罗拉多州立大学系统内工程学院教师招聘、保留和晋升相关的当前不可用的人口统计数据；2)使用仪表板来审查当前的政策/实践，以确定招聘和保留女性教师的障碍，并关注有色人种教师和外国出生/外国培训的教师，并提出新的政策/实践，3)为工程学院创建第一个科罗拉多州立大学范围内的校际网络和指导计划。这项工作有可能影响大量当前和未来的工程专业学生，因为CSU系统招收和培养的工程专业学生中，每15名就有1名在美国。在CSU系统中，大约25%的工程专业学生是西班牙裔，20%是女性，16%是亚洲人。KIND项目将促进对研究、实践和政策的理解，这些研究、实践和政策带来了系统性的变化，以支持科罗拉多州立大学工程教授中所有不同群体的公平。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“伙伴关系”奖为 项目提供支持，这些项目扩大了基于证据的系统性变革战略 ，以增强STEM教师的性别平等 区域或国家。该项目还得到了美国国家科学基金会工程局扩大工程参与（BPE）计划的支持。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 ADVANCE Partnership project called the “Kindling Inter-university Networks for Diverse Engineering Faculty Advancement in the California State University (CSU) System project (KIND)” will bring together four CSU campuses—CSU, Fresno; CSU, Los Angeles; San Jose State University; and California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo—to establish a system-wide program to develop, deliver, and test systemic interventions that support the hiring, retention, and promotion of women in the CSU engineering professoriate. The KIND project partners with the NSF INCLUDES ASPIRE Institutional Change Network, which uses a data driven self-assessment to identify inequities in faculty recruitment, retention, and advancement to support systemic change. The goal of this project is to bring about organizational changes to address systemic gender inequities that impact faculty on the CSU engineering faculty, particularly women from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in science and engineering in the US (women of color), and women that were born and/or trained in science and engineering outside of the US (foreign-born/foreign-trained (FB/FT) faculty). This work is significant as it will help to understand and address systemic gender equity issues that are similar and different for FB/FT faculty and for domestic racially and ethnically diverse faculty.The KIND project will 1) create a secured dashboard containing currently unavailable demographic data related to faculty hiring, retention, and promotion in engineering colleges across the CSU system; 2) use the dashboard to review current policies/practices to identify barriers in the recruitment and retention of women faculty with attention to faculty of color and foreign-born/foreign-trained faculty, and to propose new policies/practices, and 3) create the first CSU-wide Inter-Campus Networking and Mentoring Program for engineering faculty. This work has the potential to impact a significant number of current and future engineering students as the CSU system enrolls and trains one out of every fifteen engineering students in the U.S. In the CSU system about 25% of engineering students are of Hispanic origin, 20% are women, and 16% are Asian. The KIND project will advance understanding of research, practices, and policies that bring about systemic changes to support equity for all diverse groups in the CSU engineering professoriate.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.