ADVANCE Partnership: Leveraging Intersectionality and Engineering Affinity groups in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (LINEAGE)

专业学会通过政策和实践制定卓越标准，在学术界和工业界博士学位的进步中发挥着至关重要的作用。他们为STEM学科内的文化和气候定下了基调。对于工业工程和运筹学（IEOR），建立领域规范的两个学会是IISE（工业系统工程师学会）和INFORMS（运筹学和管理科学学会）。专业组织塑造工程师的学术身份，并决定在他们的学科中什么是有价值和奖励的。NSF ADVANCE LINEAGE项目将与这些全球专业组织合作，通过将积极的组织奖学金（POS）与六西格玛DMAIC（定义，测量，分析，改进和控制）框架相结合，解决有色人种妇女不平等的系统性原因。 LINEAGE将评估这样一个假设，即通过这些组织，有可能改变一个领域，并系统地改变该领域的文化和气候。通过与IISE和INFORMS共同创建亲和团体（AG），该项目旨在实现学术工作场所和职业的系统性变革，这将改善这些学科中有色人种女性的招聘，保留和成功。该项目是由以前的工作，以了解由NSF工程理事会（NSF 2024569）资助的学术界和工业界的AGs的影响。这项先前的工作提供的证据表明，AGs有可能在学术工作场所和专业领域产生系统性的变化。LINEAGE项目的重点是专业协会中的AG，而不是个别机构，因为1）有色人种的女性通常是家庭部门的“唯一”，这创造了一个孤立的环境，2）专业协会在职业生涯的各个阶段接触到个人，从博士到全职教授。LINEAGE将与EBJ NSF INCLUDES资助的Aspire Alliance合作，向iThrive Collective（旨在解决代表性不足的教师所发现的问题的有意对抗空间）学习。 NSF ADVANCE计划旨在通过重点确定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、流程、做法以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖项为学术、非营利高等教育机构和非学术、非营利组织提供支持，以适应和采用循证战略。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Professional societies play a critical role in the advancement of PhDs in academia and industry by setting standards of excellence through policies and practices. They set the tone for culture and climate within STEM disciplines. For industrial engineering and operations research (IEOR), the two societies that establish field norms are the IISE (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers) and INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). Professional organizations shape engineers’ academic identity and determine what is valued and rewarded in their disciplines. The NSF ADVANCE LINEAGE project will partner with these global professional organizations to address systemic causes of inequity for women of color by integrating positive organizational scholarship (POS) with the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) framework. LINEAGE will evaluate the hypothesis that through these organizations it is possible to transform a field and systemically change culture and climate within the field. Through the co-creation of affinity groups (AG) with IISE and INFORMS, this project aims to achieve systemic changes in academic workplaces and the profession that will improve the recruitment, retention, and success of women of color in these disciplines. This project is informed by prior work to understand the impact of AGs in academia and industry funded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering (NSF 2024569). This prior work provides evidence that AGs have the potential to produce systemic change in academic workplaces and in the professions. The LINEAGE project focuses on AGs in professional societies, rather than individual institutions, because 1) women of color are often the “only” in their home departments, which creates an isolated environment, and 2) professional societies reach individuals at all stages of their careers, from PhD to full professors. LINEAGE will partner with the EBJ NSF INCLUDES funded Aspire Alliance to learn from the iThrive Collective (intentional counterspaces to address issues identified by underrepresented faculty). 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 the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education and non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.