ADVANCE Catalyst: Advancing kaulike (equity) focusing on STEM intersectional experiences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

作为美国六大陆地、海洋、太空和太阳资助机构之一，夏威夷大学Mānoa （UHM）吸引了许多希望在我们丰富的生态系统中探索、创新、学习、分享和教育的STEM专业人士。然而，从数字上看，女性在STEM学术职业中的比例很低。多元化的STEM领域在实现最佳解决方案、创新和市场竞争方面更有效。UHM的NSF ADVANCE Catalyst项目将为这所地理位置孤立、以岛屿为基础、为土著服务的R1大学提供有关STEM领域女性交叉经验的现有丰富知识体系。将进行一项机构自我评估，以调查女性教师在STEM领域取得进步的支持和障碍，试点围绕终身教职和晋升的组织变革战略的潜在活动，并制定一项五年STEM教师公平计划。该项目将重点关注na wāhine或女性的经历，特别是夏威夷原住民、菲律宾人和其他未被充分代表的群体，她们将自己作为女性的经历集中在UHM的STEM学术专业中。该项目将为其他少数族裔和土著服务机构的未来性别平等模式提供信息，并为他们的系统性变革工作提供支持，以改善STEM学科中女性教师的职业成果。该项目采用女权主义、交叉性的方法来研究女性在STEM职业中的经历，并打算将孤岛性作为一个中介变量。方法包括收集和分析机构数据，实施结构化的无偏见问卷，以及焦点小组访谈。该项目将为UHM提供战略计划，通过修改招聘、保留和晋升实践，增加STEM领域中代表性不足的wāhine教师的数量，包括改进UHM的终身教职和晋升流程、指导，并创造聘用UHM毕业生担任教职的途径。该项目有四个主要的沟通策略，包括(i)与行政领导、院长、主任、STEM教职员工和学生的内部沟通；（ii）在教务长办公室的主要网站上建立一个网站，提供相关细节和资源和出版物的链接；（iii）每季度与ARC网络分享经验教训、产品和材料。（四）通过在高影响力期刊上提交文章供审议和在有关会议上发言进行对外传播。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“催化剂”奖为学术、非营利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。

As one of six US institutions that is a land-, sea-, space-, and sun-grant institution, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) attracts many STEM professionals who want to explore, innovate, study, share, and educate in our rich ecosystems. Yet, by the numbers, the presence of women in the STEM academic professions is low. STEM fields that include diverse peoples are more effective at achieving optimal solutions, innovating, and competing in the market. The NSF ADVANCE Catalyst at UHM will add to the existing and rich body of knowledge about the intersectional experiences of women in STEM at a geographically-isolated, island-based, indigenous-serving, R1 university. An institutional self-assessment will be conducted to investigate supports and barriers to advancements by women faculty in STEM, pilot potential activities towards an organizational change strategy around tenure and promotion, and develop a five-year STEM faculty equity plan. The project will focus on the experiences of na wāhine or women, in particular Native Hawaiian, Filipino and other underrepresented groups who center their experience as women in STEM academic professions at UHM. The project will inform future gender equity models at other minority- and indigenous-serving institutions, and provide support for their work toward systemic change that improves career outcomes for women faculty in the STEM disciplines. The project takes a feminist, intersectional approach to examine women’s experience in STEM professions, and intends to situate islandness as a mediating variable. Methods include the collection and analysis of institutional data, the implementation of a structured unbiased questionnaire, and focus group interviews. This project will provide UHM with strategic plans for increasing the number of underrepresented, wāhine faculty in the STEM fields through modified recruitment, retention, and promotion practices, including revamping the UHM Tenure and Promotion process, mentoring, and creating pathways to hiring UHM graduates into faculty positions. The project has four major communication strategies including (i) internal communication to executive leadership, deans, directors, STEM faculty, staff, and students, (ii) a website established under the Office of the Provost on the main UHM website with relevant details and links to resources and publications, (iii) sharing lessons learned, products and materials with the ARC Network on a quarterly basis, and (iv) external dissemination through the submission of articles for consideration in high impact journals and presentations at relevant conferences. 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 academic, non-profit institutions 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.