Collaborative Research: Access Expansion: Growing a Network of Equity-Focused Programs in the Physical Sciences

合作研究：扩大访问范围：发展物理科学领域以公平为中心的项目网络

• 批准号: 2011895
• 负责人: Joel Corbo
• 金额: $ 9.41万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Access; Expansion; Growing

This award supports the Access Network, a project aimed at substantially improving equity and inclusion in the physical sciences. Research has shown that many common existing cultural features of physics departments disproportionately and negatively impact women and underrepresented minority students, ultimately leading to their attrition. Students and faculty in physics departments have created programs using research-based strategies that cultivate a culture that welcomes and values students’ different identities. The Access Network, formed in 2015, combines nine of these single campus programs into a national network while providing them with resources, expertise, and knowledge related to equity work, institutional change, and STEM education. Evidence shows that Access sites have positively transformed the student experience, and that the Network supports the success of these sites. The lessons learned in developing intensive mentorship and workshops to new sites and deliberately expanding leadership will be of value to others attempting to apply best practices in student support to new populations and scale local efforts to national movements. Documentation will expand the set of resources for new and existing programs, which can be used within the Network and beyond. Finally, ongoing evaluation will contribute to an understanding of the impacts of the Network on the individual sites and of the sites on their participants.The Access Network works towards a more equitable and inclusive physics culture. Driven by a set of shared principles (e.g., student voice, community building) and a suite of programmatic offerings (e.g., mentorship, model building courses, community events, early research opportunities), each site is tailored to the needs of its unique population, ranging from a large number of Deaf and hard of hearing students at the Rochester Institute of Technology to Black commuter students at Chicago State University. The Network supports each site by providing relevant expertise, community support, mentored leadership opportunities, and shared resources. By helping students succeed and empowering them as leaders, Access supports these students in changing the culture of physics to make it more inclusive, welcoming, and equitable.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.

该奖项支持 Access Network，该项目旨在大幅提高物理科学的公平性和包容性。研究表明，物理系现有的许多共同文化特征对女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生产生了不成比例的负面影响，最终导致了她们的学生流失。物理系的教师和教师采用基于研究的策略创建了项目，培养一种欢迎和重视学生不同身份的文化。 2015 年成立的 Access Network 将其中 9 个单一校园项目合并为一个全国网络，同时提供这些项目。拥有资源、专业知识和与公平工作、制度变革和 STEM 教育相关的知识 有证据表明，Access 网站积极地改变了学生的体验，并且该网络支持这些网站在新网站和有意识地开展强化指导和研讨会方面取得的成功。领导力对于其他尝试将学生支持的最佳实践应用于新人群以及将地方努力扩大到全国性运动的人来说将是有价值的，文件将扩大新项目和现有项目的资源范围，这些资源可以在网络内外使用。最后，持续的评估将有助于了解网络的影响在一组共享原则（例如，学生的声音、社区建设）和一套程序化产品（例如，指导、模型构建课程、社区活动、早期研究机会），每个站点都是根据其独特人群的需求量身定制的，从罗彻斯特理工学院的大量聋哑和听力障碍学生到芝加哥的黑人通勤学生州立大学网络支持。 Access 通过提供相关专业知识、社区支持、受指导的领导机会和共享资源，帮助学生取得成功并赋予他们领导者权力，支持这些学生改变物理文化，使其更具包容性、欢迎性和公平性。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。