ADVANCE Partnership: Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity, Targeting Department Level Change in STEM

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：促进性别平等的教师在线学习社区，针对 STEM 部门层面的变革

• 批准号: 2121872
• 负责人: Melissa Dancy
• 金额: $ 25.75万
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121872&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Faculty; Online; Learning

The Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity: Targeting Departmental Level Change in STEM (FOLC-E) project offers a unique and valuable opportunity to understand department level structures and culture related to STEM faculty gender inequity. This project addresses the critical need to improve the cultures, practices, and structures of STEM departments by investigating features of the departmental setting. This project will engage teams of faculty representing 5-7 departments per FOLC-E group. As a direct result of this project, twenty-five to forty-five departments, across multiple STEM disciplines, will make a significant department level change addressing inequity, potentially impacting thousands of students and faculty. The potential of this project to promote increased equity within STEM departments will substantially improve the educational places where many of the students that identify as being from groups that are underrepresented in STEM study and work. Partners include the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) a national alliance of over 4,000 STEM faculty from over 150 institutions of higher education to disseminate information from the grant and PULSE (Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education) which was initially funded by NSF, HHMI and NIGMS/NIH and is now an educational non-profit organization. The project will inform intersectional gender equity reform efforts in STEM by implementing and studying five FOLC-Es. FOLC-E is a mechanism for increasing intersectional gender equity that leverages social learning and support. It is grounded in the concepts of faculty learning communities (FLC), communities of practice (CoP), and departmental action teams (DATs). In a community of practice, people with a common interest come together to fulfill both individual and group goals in a spirit of learning, knowledge generation and sharing, and collaboration. Teams of faculty will work with FOLC-E facilitators, intersectional gender equity experts, and administrative mentors to engage in a process of deeply understanding the power dynamics of inequity. They will engage structures that contribute to inequity that can be leveraged to enact reforms within their departments. Teams will create an action plan for change, utilizing established theories of organizational change, and enact their plans with the support and encouragement of the FOLC-E. The FOLC-E groups will use data to assess the impact and success of their efforts and refine future plans for action. A study of the FOLC-E intervention will result in new knowledge about the organizational and cultural factors that create both barriers to and opportunities for systemic change.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 projects that scale-up evidence based systemic change strategies to enhance gender equity for STEM faculty regionally or nationally.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.

促进性别平等的教师在线学习社区：以 STEM 部门级别的变革为目标 (FOLC-E) 项目提供了一个独特且宝贵的机会，以了解与 STEM 教师性别不平等相关的部门级别结构和文化。该项目通过调查部门环境的特征，解决了改善 STEM 部门文化、实践和结构的迫切需求。该项目将吸引代表每个 FOLC-E 小组 5-7 个系的教师团队。作为该项目的直接结果，跨多个 STEM 学科的 25 至 45 个系将做出重大系级变革，解决不平等问题，这可能会影响数千名学生和教师。该项目具有促进 STEM 部门内部公平性的潜力，将大大改善许多学生的教育场所，这些学生来自在 STEM 学习和工作中代表性不足的群体。 合作伙伴包括万花筒计划 (PKAL)，这是一个由来自 150 多家高等教育机构的 4,000 多名 STEM 教员组成的全国联盟，负责传播赠款信息，以及最初由 NSF、HHMI 和 NIGMS 资助的 PULSE（本科生生命科学教育合作伙伴关系）/ NIH 现在是一个教育非营利组织。该项目将通过实施和研究五个 FOLC-E，为 STEM 领域的跨部门性别平等改革工作提供信息。 FOLC-E 是一种利用社会学习和支持来提高跨部门性别平等的机制。它以教师学习社区 (FLC)、实践社区 (CoP) 和部门行动团队 (DAT) 的概念为基础。 在实践社区中，具有共同兴趣的人们聚集在一起，本着学习、知识生成和共享以及协作的精神实现个人和团体的目标。教师团队将与 FOLC-E 协调员、跨性别平等专家和行政导师合作，深入了解不平等的权力动态。他们将参与导致不平等的结构，并利用这些结构在其部门内实施改革。团队将利用既定的组织变革理论制定变革行动计划，并在 FOLC-E 的支持和鼓励下实施他们的计划。 FOLC-E 小组将使用数据来评估其努力的影响和成功，并完善未来的行动计划。对 FOLC-E 干预的研究将产生关于组织和文化因素的新知识，这些因素为系统性变革创造了障碍和机会。 NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在通过重点识别和消除组织性变革来促进性别平等。阻碍学术机构多元化教师充分参与和进步的障碍。阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。 ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖为那些扩大基于证据的系统性变革战略的项目提供支持，以增强地区或全国 STEM 教员的性别平等。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和知识进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。