ADVANCE Catalyst: Faculty Resources and Opportunities for Growth in STEM

ADVANCE Catalyst：STEM 发展的师资资源和机会

• 批准号: 2229008
• 负责人: Molly Weinburgh
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Texas Christian University
• 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: 2023-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Catalyst; Faculty; Resources; Opportunities

The ADVANCE Catalyst grant will support Texas Christian University’s effort to determine how it has implicitly influenced the inequities found in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments. By identifying barriers and bridges for women STEM faculty, this project aims to produce institutional change that will impact not only STEM, but also all women faculty at TCU. More broadly, as any institution develops an environment of equity as the norm, graduates of master and doctoral programs will enter their academic careers with a mindset of equity which has the potential to increase the number of women STEM faculty. In addition, systemic change (with an increase in the number of women faculty) has the potential to enhance infrastructure for research and education on our campus. The analysis and resulting five-year strategic plan may ground the work of other private universities with similar demographics and historical contexts.The Texas Christian University ADVANCE Catalyst project is grounded in the robust literature of three academic areas; challenges for women in higher education (especially STEM), intersectionality, and self-studies in higher education. Combining these bodies of work, the focus is on understanding the institution’s role in cultivating challenges and disparate work contexts for intersectional women faculty. This project will consider the other identities and positions held by women/females to understand their positionality. The short-term goal is to conduct a self-study to identify systemic factors that impede equity and inclusion of women in STEM, paying particular attention to the ways intersectional analyses will inform understandings of women’s experiences on campus given that those differences make a material difference in their lives as derived from their diverse identities. A key strength of the project is the qualitative focus on understanding the barriers/bridges when women STEM faculty are seen as a complex being who are more than their gender. Research questions include: (1) What are the barriers and bridges for recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining women/female faculty in STEM? (2) What are the most significant intersections for women faculty for recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining within STEM? The long-term goal is to implement the five-year strategic plan and document the efficacy of institutional change efforts.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 "Catalyst" awards provide support for institutional equity assessments and the development of five-year faculty equity strategic plans at an academic, non-profit institution of higher education.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.

ADVANCE Catalyst 赠款将支持德克萨斯基督教大学确定其如何隐式影响科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 系中的不平等现象，该项目旨在通过确定女性 STEM 教师的障碍和桥梁来建立制度。这一变化不仅会影响 STEM，还会影响 TCU 的所有女教师，更广泛地说，随着任何机构都将公平的环境作为常态，硕士和博士课程的毕业生将以公平的心态进入学术生涯。增加女性 STEM 教师数量的潜力 此外，系统性变革（女性教师数量的增加）有可能增强我们校园的研究和教育基础设施。分析和由此产生的五年战略计划可能会有所改善。德克萨斯基督教大学 ADVANCE Catalyst 项目以三个学术领域的丰富文献为基础：高等教育（尤其是 STEM）中女性面临的挑战、交叉性和自学高等教育。结合这些工作，重点是了解机构在为跨部门女性教师培养挑战和不同工作环境方面的作用。该项目将考虑女性/女性所持有的其他身份和职位，以了解她们的短期目标。的目的是进行一项自学，以确定阻碍女性参与 STEM 的公平性和包容性的系统性因素，特别关注交叉分析如何帮助理解女性在校园的经历，因为这些差异会对女性在校园中的经历产生重大影响。该项目的一个关键优势是，当女性 STEM 教师被视为超越其性别的复杂存在时，该项目的一个关键优势是理解障碍/桥梁。研究问题包括：（1）什么。 (2) STEM 中女教师招聘、聘用、晋升和保留方面最重要的交叉点是什么？ 长期目标是实施五年战略？计划和记录制度变革努力的有效性。NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。股权 ADVANCE“催化剂”奖项为学术性非营利高等教育机构的机构股权评估和五年教员股权战略计划的制定提供支持。该奖项反映了 NSF 的贡献。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。