Increasing the Effectiveness of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion-Focused Institutional Change Teams through a Community of Transformation

通过转型社区提高以正义、公平、多元化和包容性为重点的制度变革团队的有效性

• 批准号: 2236163
• 负责人: Susannah Davis
• 金额: $ 60.94万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2236163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Effectiveness; Justice; Equity; Diversity

This project aims to serve the national interest by increasing the effectiveness of organizational change efforts, so that university science and engineering programs are able to attract and retain students and faculty from diverse and minoritized communities, contributing to a more innovative and representative workforce. Change efforts in higher education are challenging, in part because faculty have not received training in organizational change, and in part because effective change needs involvement from diverse stakeholders beyond the professoriate. As a consequence, institutions may continue to use policies and practices that do not effectively address gaps in participation, such as for students of color, women, and people with disabilities. Previous research on organizational change in higher education highlights the importance of social relationships for equipping faculty and other stakeholders to make significant changes to their beliefs and practices. In that vein this project will create a cross-institutional Community of Transformation (CoT) to support university change agents who are working to make changes focused on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in their own departments and institutions. This approach is a particularly good match for JEDI-centered organizational change, which requires not only individual adoption of new practices, but also transformation of institutional structures and practices. Through an innovative approach to community building and storycrafting, the project intends to help CoT members make significant JEDI-centered institutional change efforts, learn from one another’s experiences, and learn effective change strategies towards a more just future. This work aims to advance understanding of how CoTs can help JEDI-oriented institutional change efforts thrive.This project plans to convene a cross-institutional CoT of JEDI change agents in engineering. Through both virtual and in-person events, participants will increase their resilience and skills in enacting change at their institutions, build community and co-support for each other as change agents, and increase their individual and collective agency to create organizational change. This project hopes to provide key insights into improving faculty’s change agency by integrating professional development into the CoT, fostering relationships through which members will learn from each other, and evaluating how a cross-institutional CoT can improve change agents’ capacity to improve their own departmental and institutional systems to broaden participation in STEM and advance JEDI outcomes. These key insights will be developed through research on the CoT participants and their efforts to promote change. The research team will use narrative and discourse methods to analyze CoT activities and surveys, interviews, and focus groups with CoT members. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through its Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.

该项目旨在通过提高组织变革工作的有效性来服务于国家利益，以便大学科学和工程项目能够吸引和留住来自多元化和少数族裔社区的学生和教师，为变革工作做出更具创新性和代表性的劳动力队伍做出贡献。高等教育领域面临着挑战，部分原因是教师没有接受过组织变革方面的培训，部分原因是有效的变革需要教授以外的不同利益相关者的参与。因此，机构可能会继续使用不能有效解决问题的政策和做法。参与方面的差距，例如有色人种学生、女性学生和先前关于高等教育组织变革的研究强调了社会关系对于帮助教师和其他利益相关者对其信仰和实践做出重大改变的重要性。本项目将创建一个跨机构的转型社区（CoT）。 ）支持大学变革推动者，他们致力于在自己的院系和机构中进行注重正义、公平、多样性和包容性（JEDI）的变革。这种方法特别适合以 JEDI 为中心的组织变革，这不仅需要。个人的新做法，而且通过一种创新的社区建设和故事制作方法，该项目旨在帮助 CoT 成员做出以 JEDI 为中心的重大制度变革努力，学习彼此的经验，并学习有效的变革策略，以实现更加公正的未来。这项工作旨在加深对 CoT 如何帮助以 JEDI 为导向的制度变革努力蓬勃发展的理解。该项目计划召开工程领域的跨机构 JEDI 变革推动者 CoT，通过虚拟和现场活动，参与者将增加。他们在机构中实施变革的韧性和技能，作为变革推动者建立社区和相互支持，并增强他们的个人和集体能动性以创造组织变革。该项目希望通过整合为改善教师的变革能动性提供重要见解。专业发展进入 CoT，培养成员相互学习的关系，并评估跨机构 CoT 如何提高变革推动者改善其部门和机构系统的能力，以扩大 STEM 的参与并推进 JEDI 成果。将形成关键见解通过对 CoT 参与者及其促进变革的努力进行研究，研究团队将使用叙述和话语方法来分析 CoT 活动以及与 CoT 成员的调查、访谈和焦点小组。提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。该计划通过其机构和社区转型轨道，支持高等教育机构和学科界的 STEM 教育转型和改进工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持。通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。