ADVANCE Adaptation: Enabling Minorities’ Prime Outcomes with Education & Research (EMPOWER) at Florida Atlantic University

推进适应：通过教育实现少数群体的主要成果

• 批准号: 2204462
• 负责人: Alka Sapat
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: Florida Atlantic University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204462&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Adaptation; Enabling; Minorities; Prime

The absence of an inclusive and diverse STEM faculty significantly hurts the education of a STEM workforce by the lack of role models to help educate the diverse group of students at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Demographically unrepresentative science can also negatively impact and neglect research in areas that communities and societies need. Prior NSF ADVANCE CATALYST funding provided significant knowledge and initiated changes in the hiring processes. However, inclusive support for underrepresented and intersectional minorities in hiring, retention, and promotion will make a significant difference in the institutional landscape and culture. An NSF ADVANCE adaptation award will allow Florida Atlantic University to undertake new initiatives, build on current policies and data collection activities, and transform FAU into an equitable, inclusive, and diverse place of academic teaching and research. This project will seek to advance: (1) self-sustaining interventions for diverse hiring; (2) transparent and equitable policies, (3) information through a longitudinal demographic data dashboard of faculty; and (4) strategic communications. These interventions will focus on inclusive support for gender diversity and intersectional minorities (most visibly, Latina and African American women) in hiring, retention, and promotion. The process will adapt evidence-based practices and innovations from sister ADVANCE institutions. To aid institutional integration and long-term sustainability, the project team will prioritize practices that will be bootstrapped with ADVANCE support and synergized with ongoing efforts and existing institutional infrastructures for diversity.The specific aims of the project are to 1) generate evidence-based research to scan and identify inequitable policies, the relationships that they entertain with each other, and their change over time; 2) develop a reproducible and transferrable process for building a policy database (with a website portal consisting of two key sections- an open-access section that allows for policy transparency and a secured section for internal use aimed at flagging inequity); and (3) a scalable longitudinal faculty dashboard to collect long-term trends in equity. The project will focus the competencies on Complex Systems and Data Science to identify interconnected factors that influence systemic change. This will be done with adaptive analytic approaches that are capable of processing large numbers of variables that dynamically interact on multiple levels over time. The successful implementation of this project for institutional change aims to achieve a more representative and participatory STEM faculty and accelerate institutional competitiveness in education and research. The crucial outcome of this transformation will be the mitigation of STEM workforce shortages with implications for local industries (in particular biotechnologies, aerospace, health, aging, agriculture, international trade, marine environment, information technology and security, and financial services).This project was supported by a co-funding from the HSI Program. The HSI program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs.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 "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to the academic, non-profit institutions of higher education as well as 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.

缺乏包容性和多样化的STEM教师会严重损害STEM劳动力的教育，因为他们缺乏榜样来帮助教育西班牙裔服务机构（HSIS）的多元化学生。在人口统计学上，科学也可能对社区和社会需要的领域产生负面影响和忽视研究。事先的NSF预付催化剂资金提供了重要的知识，并开始了招聘过程的变化。但是，对雇用，保留和晋升的代表性不足和交叉少数群体的包容性支持将在制度格局和文化中产生重大影响。 NSF提前改编奖将使佛罗里达州大西洋大学能够在当前的政策和数据收集活动中进行新的计划，并将FAU转变为公平，包容和多样化的学术教学和研究地点。该项目将寻求进步：（1）自我维持的干预措施； （2）通过纵向人口数据仪表板的透明和公平政策，（3）信息； （4）战略沟通。这些干预措施将集中于对性别多样性和交叉少数民族（最明显的拉丁裔和非裔美国人妇女）的包容性支持。该过程将适应姐妹高级机构的基于证据的实践和创新。为了帮助机构融合和长期可持续性，项目团队将优先考虑实践，这些实践将在预先支持的情况下进行，并与持续的努力和现有的多样性机构基础设施协同作用。 2）开发一个可再现且可转让的流程来构建策略数据库（网站门户网站由两个关键部分组成 - 一个开放式部分部分，允许策略透明度和一个有安全的内部使用部分，以供内部使用，旨在标记不平等）； （3）可扩展的纵向教师仪表板，以收集公平的长期趋势。该项目将把能力集中在复杂的系统和数据科学上，以识别影响全身变化的相互联系的因素。这将通过能够处理大量变量的自适应分析方法来完成，这些变量随着时间的推移在多个级别上动态相互作用。该项目的成功实施旨在实现更具代表性和参与的STEM教师，并在教育和研究中加速机构竞争力。这种转变的关键结果将是缓解STEM劳动力短缺，对本地行业的影响（尤其是生物技术，航空航天，健康，衰老，农业，国际贸易，国际贸易，海洋环境，信息技术和安全服务以及金融服务）。这是由HSI计划的共同资金支持的。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS建立能力。 Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs.The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification消除组织障碍，阻碍了各种教师在学术机构中的全面参与和进步。抑制公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策，过程，实践以及组织文化和气候中。提前“适应”奖项为适应和采用基于证据的策略对高等教育的学术，非营利性机构以及非学术的非营利性组织提供了支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过评估该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估CRITERIA。