NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Developing and Strengthening Partnerships to Better Support Women of Color in the Engineering Workforce

NSF 包括规划拨款：发展和加强伙伴关系，以更好地支持工程队伍中的有色人种女性

• 批准号: 2040634
• 负责人: Roberta Rincon
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Society of Women Engineers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040634&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; Planning; Grant; Developing

This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goals of this planning grant are to: 1) establish the Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative (WCEC), a partnership network of professional engineering associations and STEM-based companies dedicated to addressing systemic barriers that prohibit equitable work environments for women engineers of color; 2) create a shared vision focused on dismantling systemic barriers that impede the retention and advancement of women engineers of color; and 3) develop a strategic plan to guide WCEC activities. Reaching parity in engineering cannot be accomplished by approaches that solely focus on the recruitment or “fixing” of underrepresented groups; rather, efforts that connect and energize people, cross divides, and drive systemic change toward equity are needed. To date, many NSF INCLUDES projects have focused on the recruitment and retention of students into STEM education programs, but the WCEC will focus on the often cited, yet understudied, challenge of retaining women in the engineering workforce. Through the WCEC, partner organizations will better leverage their resources to promote systemic change while working collectively to decrease the barriers that lead to the attrition of women engineers of color.To reach the goals stated above, this project includes two convenings and monthly workgroup meetings. The first two-day virtual convening will include representatives from thirty organizations, including professional engineering associations and STEM-based companies. Participants will develop a shared vision, identify barriers that exist in the workplace for women engineers of color, and determine which of these barriers the WCEC is best positioned to address. Workgroups will be established around specific supports aimed at addressing those barriers. Over the course of the next six months, WCEC partners will work within their workgroups to develop a strategy to facilitate collaborative activities for their specific support. A second virtual convening will be held to consolidate the workgroup strategies and develop an integrated strategic plan to support the continuation of WCEC activities. The WCEC will develop a final report that includes the integrated strategic plan that includes a Shared Vision statement, a detailed master list of resources to support women of color in the engineering workforce, potential collaborative activities, and an outlined infrastructure to facilitate these activities moving forward. We aim to create an engaged stakeholder community and develop a Shared Vision and Partnerships to support a collaborative infrastructure that encourages an alignment of efforts, removal of resource barriers, reduction of duplication, increased leveraging of resources, and greater reach to women engineers of color in the workforce. The work of the WCEC will add to the STEM equity knowledge base, with outcomes shared through the NSF INCLUDES National Network.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NSF包括计划赠款，由NSF包容性在整个国家的NSF包容性资金中资助，这些社区的工程和科学领域人数不足的发现者（NSF Incluction）是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过专注于在STEM上的多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与，以提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导能力。该计划赠款的目标是：1）建立工程合作社（WCEC）的有色妇女，这是专业工程协会的合作伙伴网络和基于STEM的公司，致力于解决禁止有色女性工程师公平工作环境的系统性障碍； 2）建立一个共同的愿景，重点是消除阻碍女性工程师的保留和进步的系统性障碍； 3）制定一个战略计划来指导WCEC活动。通过仅专注于代表性不足的群体的招聘或“确定”的方法，无法实现工程学的均衡；相反，需要努力使人们联系并充满活力，交叉分裂以及将系统性变革推向公平。迄今为止，许多NSF包括专注于将学生招募和保留为STEM教育计划的项目，但WCEC将专注于经常被引用的，但被理解的，即将妇女留在工程劳动力中的挑战。通过WCEC，合作伙伴组织将更好地利用其资源来促进系统性变化，同时共同努力减少导致颜色女性工程师属性的障碍。要达到上述目标，该项目包括两个召集和每月的工作组会议。前两天的虚拟召集将包括来自三十个组织的代表，包括专业工程协会和基于STEM的公司。参与者将建立共同的愿景，确定有色女性工程师工作场所中存在的障碍，并确定WCEC最好解决的哪个障碍。将围绕针对这些障碍的特定支持建立工作组。在接下来的六个月中，WCEC合作伙伴将在其工作组中努力制定一项策略，以促进协作活动的特定支持。将举行第二次虚拟召集，以巩固工作组策略并制定综合战略计划，以支持WCEC活动的继续。 WCEC将制定最终报告，其中包括综合战略计划，其中包括共享愿景陈述，详细的主人列表，以支持工程劳动力中有色女性的妇女，潜在的协作活动以及概述的基础架构，以支持这些活动的前进。我们旨在建立一个参与的利益相关者社区，并建立共同的愿景和合作伙伴关系，以支持协作基础设施，以鼓励努力保持一致，消除资源障碍，减少重复，增加资源的利用以及对劳动力中有色女工程师的更大影响力。 WCEC的工作将增加STEM股权知识库，并在NSF中分享的成果包括国家网络。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。