ADVANCE Partnership: Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：STEM（空间）社区参与协调的战略合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 2204552
• 负责人: Maya Trotz
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204552&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Strategic; Alignment; Community

Although research using community-engaged research (CER) methods is funding by several federal agencies, CER is still undervalued within the broader STEM discipline culture and often it is classified as “service” during STEM faculty annual review, tenure, and promotion processes. This project posits that this systemic undervaluation of CER contributes to the attrition of many faculty that identify as women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority women (URMWF) who frequently enter Environmental Engineering (EnvE) motivated to address societally important problems. This ADVANCE Partnership project titled “Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)” will work to enhance the understanding and awareness of rigorous CER research and its value to the EnvE discipline and society, especially as conducted by URMWF. This project is a collaborative effort among 11 academic institutions, EnvE discipline’s primary professional societies (American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists, American Association for Aerosol Research, Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors, Water Environment Federation) and an NSF initiative focused on CER through the National Research Traineeship program. SPACES will leverage the strength of the SPACES partnership, gains made in gender representation in EnvE, as well as the justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) initiatives underway in EnvE and public health. The project aims to produce a structural model, operationalized as an institutional scorecard, that will result in greater faculty success and professional progress for those conducting CER. The scorecard will incorporate factors that shape trends related to the longevity and attrition of URMWF faculty in EnvE at the personal, disciplinary, and societal levels. The scorecard has potential to be used in other engineering disciplines. The project goals are to: (1) increase the retention and promotion of URMWF in EnvE; (2) transform the climate and infrastructure to support and value community-engaged research in the EnvE academic community; and (3) enhance understanding and awareness of CER research and its value to the EnvE discipline and society, especially as conducted by URMWF. 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 the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education and 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.

尽管使用社区参与研究（CER）方法进行的研究是几个联邦机构的资助，但CER仍被低估在更广泛的STEM学科文化中，并且在STEM教师年度审查，任期和晋升过程中通常被归类为“服务”。该项目认为，这种系统性低估的CER造成了许多教师的损耗，这些教师认同为妇女，而代表性不足的种族和少数民族妇女（URMWF）经常进入环境工程（ENVE），这些妇女经常进入环境工程（ENVE）解决社会重要问题。这个题为“社区参与STEM（Space）的战略合作伙伴关系的战略合作伙伴关系”将致力于增强对严格的CER研究的理解和意识及其对Enve纪律和社会的价值，尤其是由URMWF进行的。该项目是11个学术机构，Enve纪律的初级专业学会（美国环境工程学会与科学家学会，美国气雾剂研究协会，环境工程与科学协会，水环境联合会）的合作努力，以及通过国家研究受训计划的NSF倡议专注于CER。空间将利用空间合作伙伴关系的实力，在ENVE中的性别代表性以及司法，公平，多样性和包容性（JEDI）倡议中所取得的收益。该项目旨在生产一种以机构计分卡运营的结构模型，这将为人们带来更大的教师成功和专业进步。记分卡将结合塑造与URMWF教师在个人，纪律和社会层面上的寿命和属性相关的趋势的因素。记分卡有潜力用于其他工程学科。项目目标是：（1）增加URMWF在ENVE中的保留和促进； （2）将气候和基础设施转变为支持和评估ENVE学术界的社区参与研究； （3）增强对CER研究的理解和意识及其对Enve纪律和社会的价值，尤其是由URMWF进行的。 NSF Advance计划旨在促进性别平等，以侧重于识别和发展组织障碍，这些组织障碍阻碍了潜水员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。提前的“伙伴关系”奖项为适应和采用基于循证的策略对高等教育和非学术非营利组织的学术，非营利性机构的适应和采用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的珍贵的支​​持。