ADVANCE Catalyst: Reflecting, Assessing, and Improving Intersectional Equitable Practices with STEM Faculty

该项目旨在评估乔治亚格温尼特学院(GGC)STEM教员的公平性，GGC是一所成立于2006年的相对年轻的机构，拥有大量多样化的STEM教员，他们从成立初期就一直在该机构工作。它有相当大比例的教职员工认同为女性(约50%)和历史上被排除在外的种族/民族(约18%)。与传统的高等教育机构相比，GGC有几个独特的特点。这一催化剂项目提供了一个独特的机会，让我们了解多元化教师队伍在短时间内的快速演变；调查吸引和留住大量高等教育教师的因素；以及调查可能阻碍他们专业发展的任何障碍。GGC的大量HE STEM教员为数据分析提供了大量样本，这些数据分析可以提供具有统计学意义的结果。通过这一项目，乔治亚州格温尼特学院(GGC)旨在采用数据驱动的方法来评估其STEM教职员工的公平性，特别是在认同历史上被排除在外的(HE)群体的教职员工中，例如那些认为自己是女性和/或属于特定种族/民族群体的教职员工。这项研究将有助于确定有助于在一个多元化的、少数族裔服务的开放访问机构招聘、保留和提升高等教育教师的因素。通过收集和分析来自多个来源(如人口统计数据、薪资数据、任职时间、调查、焦点小组、访谈、官方政策和指导方针、年度评估等)的数据，该研究将确定导致STEM学科中认同高等教育群体的教师招聘、留住和晋升的政策和做法。这项数据分析还将有助于识别可能影响学院STEM教员的任何不平等现象。该项目通过内部咨询委员会与GGC的主要管理人员合作，旨在制定一项五年战略计划，以解决在自我评估过程中发现的任何不平等现象。这一战略计划还将确定需要保留的现有做法，以维护GGC STEM教师公平的工作场所，并可与更广泛的学术界分享，以便更广泛地实施。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“催化剂”奖为学术、非营利性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。

This project aims to assess equity among STEM faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), a relatively young institution founded in 2006, which has a large, diverse STEM faculty who have worked at the institution since its early days. It has a significant percentage of faculty who identify as women (~50%) and with historically excluded (HE) racial/ethnic groups (~18%). GGC has several unique characteristics as compared to traditional institutions of higher education. This Catalyst Project offers a unique opportunity to understand the rapid evolution of a diverse faculty body over a short period; investigate the factors that attracted and retained a large number of HE faculty; and investigate any barriers that may have impeded their professional growth. GGC’s large number of HE STEM faculty provides a large sample size for data analysis that can provide statistically significant results. This has the potential of making significant contributions to the research on diversity and equity in STEM and ensuring equity in the long term for the GGC faculty.Through this project, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) aims to take a data-driven approach to assess equity among its STEM faculty, particularly among faculty identifying with historically excluded (HE) groups, such as those who identify as women and/or as belonging to specific racial/ethnic groups. This study will help identify the factors that contribute to the recruitment, retention, and advancement of HE faculty at a diverse, minority-serving, open-access institution. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources (such as demographic data, salary data, time at rank, surveys, focus groups, interviews, official policies and guidelines, annual evaluations, etc.), the study will identify the policies and practices that lead to recruitment, retention, and advancement of faculty identifying with HE groups in STEM disciplines. This data analysis will also help identify any inequities that might affect STEM faculty at the college. In collaboration with key administrators at GGC through an internal advisory board, the project aims to create a five-year strategic plan to address any inequities that are discovered during this self-assessment. This strategic plan will also identify existing practices that need to be retained to maintain an equitable workplace for STEM faculty at GGC and can be shared with the wider academic community for broader implementation. 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 an academic, non-profit institution 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.