ADVANCE Partnership: Advancing Gender Equity in Computing and Engineering Academic Professions through Multi-Organization Collaboration

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：通过多组织合作促进计算和工程学术专业的性别平等

• 批准号: 2204380
• 负责人: Jamie Ward
• 金额: $ 124.93万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2022-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Advancing; Gender; Equity

The project team seeks to significantly advance organizational change for gender equity in STEM, particularly in computing and engineering academic professions. Recent data indicates that 26% of tenured faculty in STEM are women, which dwindles further when specifically looking at engineering and computing faculty (17%). For this project, the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) will partner with the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) and the Aspire Alliance to address the systemic barriers women face in computing and engineering academic workplaces. This project seeks to leverage collective impact practices and directly enhance the experiences and career opportunities of intersectionally diverse women in computing and engineering academic workplaces nationally. The approach is by unifying organizations that collaboratively provide resources to address systemic and structural change and targeting policies, practices, and norms in computing and engineering academic workplaces. The project aims to raise awareness, and increase the adoption of effective, research-based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) change efforts among higher education administrators, faculty, and staff, who then become institutional change leaders. The project team plans to adapt evidence-based resources and programs to better—and more comprehensively—address systemic issues related to recruiting and retaining intersectionally diverse women in computing and engineering workplaces at multiple institutional levels (institution, college, department, program).The primary goal of this project is to lay the foundation for the creation and widespread utilization of a first-of-its-kind, scalable software decision support platform specifically designed to empower computing and engineering departments to implement systemic, sustainable approaches to creating inclusive cultures in the academic workplace. Working together, the partner organizations seek to 1) integrate their evidence-based resource collections; 2) curate these resources into sub-collections aligned with the NCWIT Academic Workplace Systemic Change Model; 3) build out and scale an easy-to-use online platform, which embeds the curated resource sub-collections, to guide computing and engineering departments through the process of developing strategic and intersectional approaches for addressing systemic barriers to creating inclusive cultures; and 4) deploy a guided, community-based professional development and strategic planning experience for computing and engineering departments. The project and collaborative infrastructure plans are based on established theories of organizational change and relevant research. The project team seeks to utilize insights generated through targeted focus groups and a community-based professional development program to enable the creation and refinement of contextually relevant, easily adopted resources that can be shared on a national scale. Sound quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods will be utilized throughout the project.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.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.

该项目团队力求显着推进 STEM 领域的性别平等组织变革，特别是在计算机和工程学术专业领域。最近的数据表明，STEM 领域的终身教职人员中有 26% 是女性，而在专门研究工程和计算机学院时，这一比例进一步下降 (17)。对于该项目，国家妇女和信息技术中心 (NCWIT) 将与女性工程主动网络 (WEPAN) 和 Aspire 联盟合作，解决女性在计算机和工程学术工作场所面临的系统性障碍。旨在利用集体影响力实践，直接增强全国计算机和工程学术工作场所中多元化女性的经验和职业机会。该方法是通过联合组织来协作提供资源，以应对系统性和结构性变革，并制定有针对性的政策、实践和规范。该项目旨在提高高等教育管理人员、教职员工对有效性、基于研究的多样性、公平性和包容性 (DEI) 变革努力的认识和采用，进而推动制度变革。项目团队计划采用基于证据的方法。资源和计划，以更好地、更全面地解决与在多个机构级别（机构、学院、部门、项目）的计算和工程工作场所招聘和留住交叉多元化女性相关的系统性问题。该项目的主要目标是奠定为创建和广泛使用首个可扩展的软件决策支持平台奠定了基础，该平台专门设计用于使计算和工程部门能够实施系统的、可持续的方法，在学术工作场所共同创造包容性文化。组织寻求 1) 整合他们的基于证据的资源集合；2) 将这些资源整理为符合 NCWIT 学术工作场所系统性变革模型的子集合；3) 构建并扩展一个易于使用的在线平台，其中嵌入了精选的资源子集合，以指导计算和工程部门制定战略和交叉方法，以解决创建包容性文化的系统性障碍；4) 为计算和工程部门部署有指导的、基于社区的专业发展和战略规划经验。计划是基于该项目团队力求利用通过目标焦点小组和基于社区的专业发展计划产生的见解，以创建和完善与背景相关的、易于采用的资源，这些资源可以在全国范围内共享。整个项目将采用健全的定量和定性评估方法。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。政策中可能存在阻碍公平的组织障碍， ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖项为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 教师的性别平等。 NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在促进性别平等。通过关注公平性来识别和消除阻碍学术机构中多元化教师充分参与和进步的组织障碍。阻碍公平性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。 “伙伴关系”该奖项为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 教师的性别平等。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。