Conference: HSI Intersectionality Community of Practice for Student Success (HSI-ICPSS)

高等教育机构通常使用一维指标来定义服务不足的学生群体，例如第一代大学地位、PELL获得者、拉丁裔、非裔美国人、美洲原住民和性别。然而，研究表明，仅按种族、性别或阶级来报告高等教育成果，不足以记录和消除不平等现象。在特定的社会历史背景下，对种族、性别、阶级和其他不平等轴线构成的交叉性或关注，既是分析上不同的，又是同时存在的系统，是一种强大的工具，可以使不平等现象变得清晰可见，并帮助高等教育机构采取有效行动，促进本科生在STEM及其他领域的成功。HSI学生成功实践交叉社区（HSI- icpss）项目将通过一系列虚拟会议汇集25个HSI，进行为期一年的实践社区。它将召集与会的hsi参加四个半天的会议。将邀请主要利益相关者，包括教职员工和其他在公平和包容方面具有专业知识的领导者，以及专注于STEM的本科生成功计划。虚拟会议系列的一个关键目标是分享高等教育中交叉性应用的最新学术成果，以及交叉性作为公平指标和制定促进学生成功的有效策略的探究和实践的变革潜力。交叉性作为探究和实践在学术界和实践者群体中都有着悠久的谱系。然而，在高等教育的公平指标和资源分配方面，交叉性的力量还没有达到催化持久的、全系统的公平变革的规模。HSI-ICPSS的长期目标是建立作为调查和实践的交叉性的能力，作为高等教育资源分配公平指标的新黄金标准。HSI- icpss项目将为每个参与的HSI提供三个书面产品：1)数据政策简报，概述机构共识值，当前数据收集和分析策略以及以交叉性调查为中心的替代方案，以对公平影响进行调查；2)行动计划，描述他们的变革理论，利益相关者参与，预期的障碍，以及在他们的交叉实践社区的实际解决方案；3)沟通策略，概述网站更新和全校范围内关于招生、保留、毕业（包括本科STEM学位）的机构公平报告。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

Institutions of higher education generally define underserved student populations using one-dimensional metrics, such as first-generation college status, PELL recipient, Latinx origin, African American origin, and Native American origin and gender. Yet, research shows that reporting higher education outcomes by race alone, gender alone or class alone is insufficient for documenting and eliminating inequities. Intersectionality or attention to the constitution of race, gender, class, and other axes of inequality as both analytically distinct and simultaneous systems in a given sociohistorical context is a powerful tool for making inequities visible and helping institutions of higher education create effective actions for advancing undergraduate student success in STEM and beyond. The HSI Intersectionality Community of Practice for Student Success (HSI-ICPSS) project will bring together 25 HSIs for a year-long community of practice through a virtual conference series. It will convene participating HSIs for four half-day conferences. Key stakeholders, including faculty, staff and other leaders with expertise in equity and inclusion and undergraduate success initiatives focused on STEM will be invited. A key goal of the virtual conference series is to share state of the art scholarship on the use of intersectionality in higher education and the transformative potential of intersectionality as inquiry and praxis for equity metrics and developing effective strategies for advancing student success.Intersectionality as inquiry and praxis has a long genealogy in both academic and practitioner communities. Yet, the power of intersectionality has not been brought to scale for catalyzing enduring and system-wide equity transformations in equity metrics and distribution of resources in higher education. The long-term goal of HSI-ICPSS is to build capacity for intersectionality as inquiry and praxis as a new gold standard in higher education equity metrics for distribution of resources. The HSI-ICPSS project will result in three written products for each participating HSI: 1) Data Policy Brief outlining institutional consensus values, current data collection and analytical strategies and alternatives that center intersectionality inquiry for equity impact; 2) Action Plan describing their theory of change, stakeholder engagement, anticipated roadblocks, as well as practical solutions in their intersectional community of practice; and 3) Communication Strategy outlining updates to websites and university-wide institutional equity reports on admissions, retention, graduation, including undergraduate STEM degrees. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.