Collaborative Research: HSI-Hubs: Intersectionality as Inquiry & Praxis: Race, Class, Gender & Ethnicity for Student Success in STEM

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：该HUB项目旨在召集新墨西哥大学（UNM）、新墨西哥州立大学（NMSU）、新墨西哥中部社区学院（CNM）、城市学院、纽约城市大学（CCNY-CUNY）、雷曼学院（Lehman College）、霍斯托斯社区学院（Hostos- cuny）重新设想数据和公平指标，召集实践社区并改变有关推进STEM公平的叙述。高等教育机构使用一维状态指标（例如，第一代大学，PELL，性别，美洲原住民，非裔美国人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔等）来定义服务不足的学生。然而，研究表明，这不足以记录和消除不平等（McCall 2001; Irizarry 2015; López, Erwin, Binder & Chavez 2018）。迫切需要将交叉性作为战略规划和资源公平分配的新视角（例如，招生，获得的学位，部门/机构文化转变，州级资助公式/资源分配，联邦数据收集和问责制指标/IPEDS等）。交叉性（关注种族、性别、阶级、民族和其他不平等轴线的相互构成，在特定的社会历史和制度背景下，作为分析上不同的、同时存在的权力、压迫、抵抗系统）是一种强大的工具，可以使不平等现象显现出来，并帮助高等教育机构采取有效行动，促进本科生在STEM及其他领域取得成功。我们的hsi中心是一个多方面的资源、连接器和催化剂，促进持久的全系统股权转型，孵化知识生产和股权影响政策的交叉性承诺。我们的协同成果和阶段性成果包括：STEM数据和政策行动网络；2)。HSI STEM实践社区：教员研究员和利益相关者通过交叉性推进公平；和3)。通过叙事变化、传播策略和出版物，HSI STEM中心交叉性作为公平。我们的成果包括一个专门的网站、政策简报和学术报告。项目产品将存档在新墨西哥大学的数字存储库中，标记在以下主题下：“西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）”、“交叉性”、“公平”、“高等教育”、“学生成功”和“指标”。任何有互联网接入的人都可以访问该存储库。为了增加可见度和影响，选定的数据和项目材料将被转换成适合上传到JSTOR-FORUM和OMEKA数据库并在WorldCat中编目的格式。承认交叉性对促进公平的重要性，而没有一个战略计划来消除障碍，重新分配资源，以促进学生的成功，是一个错失的机会。“采用真正的交叉方法将使我们能够以不同的方式思考和行动，以消除教育的系统性障碍”（Harpur, Szucs & Willox 2012:14）。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this HUB Project aims to convene The University of New Mexico (UNM), New Mexico State University (NMSU), Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), City College, The City University of New York (CCNY-CUNY), Lehman College (Lehman-CUNY), Hostos Community College (Hostos-CUNY) to re-envision data and equity metrics, convene communities of practice and transform narratives about advancing equity in STEM. Institutions of higher education define underserved students using one-dimensional status metrics (e.g., first-generation college, PELL, gender, Native American, African-American and Hispanic/Latinx, etc.). Yet, research shows this is insufficient for documenting and eliminating inequities (McCall 2001; Irizarry 2015; López, Erwin, Binder & Chavez 2018). There is an urgent need to operationalize intersectionality as a new angle of vision for strategic planning and equitable distribution of resources (e.g., admissions, degrees earned, department/institutional culture shift, state-level funding formulas/distribution of resources, federal data collection and accountability metrics/IPEDS, etc.). Intersectionality (attention to the mutual constitution of race, gender, class, ethnicity and other axes of inequality as analytically distinct and simultaneous systems of power, oppression, resistance in a given sociohistorical and institutional 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. Our HSI-hub is a multi-faceted resource, connector and catalyst for enduring system-wide equity transformations that incubate the promise of intersectionality for knowledge production and policy for equity impact. Our synergistic and phased deliverables include: 1.) HSI STEM Data and Policy Network for Action; 2.) HSI STEM Communities of Practice: Faculty Fellows and Stakeholders Advancing Equity Through Intersectionality; and 3.) HSI STEM Centering Intersectionality as Equity through Narrative Change, Communication Strategies and Publications. Our deliverables include a dedicated website, policy briefs, and academic. Project products will be archived in the UNM digital repository, tagged under the following subjects: “Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs),” “Intersectionality,” “Equity,” “Higher Education,” “Student Success,” and “Metrics.” The repository is accessible to anyone with internet access. In order to increase visibility and impact, select data and project materials, will be converted to a format suitable for upload to JSTOR-FORUM and OMEKA databases and catalogued in WorldCat. Acknowledging the importance of intersectionality for advancing equity, without a strategic plan to remove barriers and redistribute resources for advancing student success, is a missed opportunity. “Taking a truly intersectional approach will enable us to think and act differently to remove systemic barriers to education” (Harpur, Szucs & Willox 2022:14). 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.