Collaborative Research: Inspiring Networks and Sustainability of Postsecondary Inclusivity and Racial Equity with the Computing Alliance of HSIs

激励网络和高等教育包容性和种族平等的可持续性（INSPIRE）项目将解决维持以公平为中心的学生成功实践的重大问题，这些实践试图减轻STEM和STEM教育企业内部的系统性不平等。关于这种做法的组织可持续性的研究很少，特别是在西班牙裔服务机构和其他少数族裔服务机构。此外，很少有这样的举措能够长期持续下去。西班牙裔服务机构计算联盟（CAHSI）成立了16年，由40个HSI计算机科学系和其他合作伙伴组成，致力于改善种族平等，是这一领域罕见的长期倡议。研究这个联盟为组织变革和适应性策略提供了机会，以减轻长期存在的导致计算领域不公平参与的制度实践。INSPIRE的目标是：(1)加强对以公平为中心的学生成功策略的理解，以减轻计算机企业中的系统性不平等；(2)支持hsi中以公平为中心的学生成功策略的组织可持续性；(3)将以公平为中心的学生成功计算的可转移模型扩展到其他机构。该项目旨在实现三个主要成果。首先，推进以平等为中心的学生成功实践的研究，以减轻体制性种族主义，促进计算机领域的种族平等。第二，创建一个平台，让学生、员工、教师和管理人员通过开发实用的方法来整合和维持这些策略，从而提升和表达他们的意见。最后，开发一种可转移的、文化上可持续的组织转型模式。项目范围包括与CAHSI计算部门进行的混合方法定量和定性研究。INSPIRE团队还将努力建设这些计算机部门的能力，以维持朝着种族平等方向的组织变革。该方法将包括定量调查、定性访谈和深入的四个CAHSI部门的定性案例研究。案例研究将包括访谈和观察，以研究关键利益相关者如何在实施和维持以股权为中心的实践中遇到挑战和机遇。这些利益相关者包括教师、管理人员、员工和学生。项目团队将共享数据并产生反馈，以建立各部门在这些活动中维持以公平为导向的组织变革的能力。一个预期的结果是增强对以公平为中心的学生成功策略的理解，以及阻碍或促进这些策略的采用和可持续性的组织条件。另一个是建立一个计算机学生成功的模型，以减轻所有机构在计算机和STEM领域的机构种族主义。INSPIRE团队将通过网络研讨会、出版物、演讲和互动研讨会传播研究和专业发展。传播将侧重于包容和公平的部门实践，例如社区建设和交叉学习和研究方法，这些方法可以直接应用于提高少数族裔学生在计算机方面的成功。传播工作将针对多种角色的受众，包括学生、教职员工和管理人员。该项目由STEM教育中的种族平等项目（EHR种族平等）资助。该项目支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目旨在将STEM企业中受系统性不平等影响最大的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验集中起来。该项目符合美国国家科学基金会的核心价值，即支持来自全国不同人口群体、地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。EHR种族平等的资金来自EHR各个项目，以表彰其项目与董事会四个部门的集体研究和开发重点的一致性。院校可以包括低收入本科生比例较高的院校。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 Inspiring Networks and Sustainability of Postsecondary Inclusivity and Racial Equity (INSPIRE) project will address the significant problem of sustaining equity-centered student success practices that attempt to mitigate systemic inequities within the STEM and STEM education enterprise. Studies of organizational sustainability of such practices are rare, particularly in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and other Minority-Serving Institutions. Also, few such initiatives have been sustained significantly over time. The Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI), a 16-year-old consortium of 40 HSI computer science departments and other partners dedicated to improving racial equity, is one rare long-lasting initiative in this arena. Studying this consortium provides the opportunity to inform organizational change and adaptive strategies to mitigate often long-standing institutional practices that have led to inequitable participation in the computing field. INSPIRE’s goals are to (1) strengthen understanding of equity-centered student success strategies to mitigate systemic inequities in the computing enterprise, (2) support organizational sustainability of equity-centered student success strategies in HSIs, and (3) extend a transferable model of equity-centered student success in computing to other institutions.The project aims to achieve three primary outcomes. First, to advance research on equity-centered student success practices that mitigate institutional racism and advance racial equity in computing. Second, to create a platform to elevate and give voice to student-, staff-, faculty-, and administrator-developed practical approaches to integrate and sustain these strategies. Finally, to develop a transferable and culturally sustaining model of organizational transformation. The project’s scope includes mixed methods quantitative and qualitative research with CAHSI computing departments. The INSPIRE team will also strive to build capacity in these computing departments to sustain organizational change toward racial equity. The approach will include quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and in-depth qualitative case studies of four CAHSI departments. The case studies will involve interviews and observations to study how key stakeholders encounter challenges and opportunities to implementing and sustaining equity-centered practices. These stakeholders include faculty, administrators, staff, and students. The project team will share data and generate feedback to build departments’ capacity to sustain equity-oriented organizational change during these activities. One expected result is an enhanced understanding of equity-centered student success strategies and the organizational conditions that hinder or enhance the adoption and sustainability of these strategies. Another is a model of computing student success to mitigate institutional racism in computing and STEM at all institutions. The INSPIRE team will disseminate research and professional development through webinars, publications, presentations, and interactive workshops. Dissemination will focus on inclusive and equitable departmental practices, such as community-building and intersectional approaches to learning and research, that can be directly applied to raise minoritized students’ computing success. Dissemination efforts will address audiences in multiple roles, including students, staff, faculty, and administrators. This project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education program (EHR Racial Equity). The program supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This program aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Funds for EHR Racial Equity are pooled from programs across EHR in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate. Institutions may include those with significant percentages of low-income undergraduate students.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.