ADVANCE Partnership: Transforming HSI STEM Departmental Climate for Faculty Success

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：转变 HSI STEM 部门氛围以促进教师成功

• 批准号: 2204577
• 负责人: Ala Qubbaj
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing 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=2204577&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Transforming; HSI; STEM

Latinas represent one of the fastest-growing populations in the US, yet Latina faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers remain underrepresented. Departmental and institutional environments must welcome and foster the engagement and career development of Latina faculty to be successful in academia. This project recognizes the importance of academic departmental climates in the recruitment, retention, and advancement of Latinas. The anticipated STEM department climate transformation focuses on equipping department chairs and their change teams with the resources needed to transform their departments' cultures into psychologically healthy workplaces for Latina and other underrepresented minority faculty. The project leverages the influence, expertise, and resources embedded within a multifaceted, multi-organizational partnership of academic and professional organizations and strategically draws on the knowledge and insights gained from, but not limited to, NSF-ADVANCE projects. The project is designed to facilitate broader adaptation of evidence-based gender equity and systemic change strategies, resulting in more diverse and inclusive STEM academic workplaces and professions. By diversifying STEM faculty, our project aspires to enhance the STEM pipeline, improve student outcomes, and ultimately strengthen the U.S. STEM workforce and global competitiveness.The goal of this project is to transform STEM departmental climates and cultures into psychologically healthy workplaces where Latina faculty can thrive in ways that maximize their scholarly productivity and advancement. The project scope encompasses four objectives, and related activities: 1) expose department change leaders to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) information and evidence-based practices via a newly created Advancing Latina Faculty in STEM Community of Practice (CoP); 2) engage STEM department change leaders in an annual spring Advancing Latina Faculty in STEM Summit for networking and resource sharing; 3) enable annual cohorts of STEM department chair-led change teams to transform their departments through intensive work guided by experienced facilitators/coaches; and 4) examine via social science research how empowerment-driven healthy workplace intervention programs for department chairs lead to improved diversity, climate, well-being, and productivity for Latinas in STEM. Implementing and applying strategies through the community of practice and department chair intervention will sharpen knowledge regarding the critical and influential factors that facilitate or hinder the success of Latina STEM faculty. Our broad partnership will disseminate information to various stakeholders on best practices to create and sustain inclusive and supportive climates for Latina STEM faculty. 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.

拉丁裔是美国人口增长最快的群体之一，但从事科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 职业的拉丁裔教师人数仍然不足。部门和机构环境必须欢迎并促进拉丁裔教师的参与和职业发展，才能在学术界取得成功。该项目认识到学术部门氛围在拉丁裔招聘、保留和晋升方面的重要性。预期的 STEM 系气候转型重点是为系主任及其变革团队提供所需的资源，将其系的文化转变为拉丁裔和其他代表性不足的少数族裔教职人员心理健康的工作场所。该项目利用学术和专业组织的多方面、多组织合作伙伴关系中的影响力、专业知识和资源，并战略性地利用从（但不限于）NSF-ADVANCE 项目中获得的知识和见解。该项目旨在促进更广泛地适应基于证据的性别平等和系统性变革战略，从而形成更加多样化和包容性的 STEM 学术工作场所和职业。通过使 STEM 教职人员多元化，我们的项目致力于增强 STEM 培养渠道、提高学生成绩，并最终增强美国 STEM 劳动力队伍和全球竞争力。该项目的目标是将 STEM 部门的氛围和文化转变为心理健康的工作场所，让拉丁裔教职人员能够以最大限度地提高学术生产力和进步的方式蓬勃发展。该项目范围包括四个目标和相关活动：1）通过在 STEM 实践社区（CoP）中新创建的推进拉丁裔教师，让部门变革领导者了解多样性、公平和包容性（DEI）信息和基于证据的实践； 2) 在每年春季的 STEM 峰会上邀请 STEM 部门变革领导者参加推进拉丁裔教师峰会，以建立联系和资源共享； 3) 使每年由 STEM 部门主席领导的变革团队能够通过经验丰富的协调员/教练指导下的密集工作来实现部门转型； 4) 通过社会科学研究检验系主任赋权驱动的健康工作场所干预计划如何改善拉丁裔在 STEM 领域的多样性、气候、福祉和生产力。通过实践社区和系主任干预来实施和应用策略将加深对促进或阻碍拉丁裔 STEM 教师成功的关键和影响因素的了解。我们广泛的合作伙伴关系将向各个利益相关者传播有关最佳实践的信息，为拉丁裔 STEM 教师创造和维持包容性和支持性的氛围。 NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构多元化教师充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。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”奖为学术、非营利高等教育机构和非学术非营利组织适应和采用循证策略提供支持。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。