ADVANCE Partnership: Raising Equity Values with the Inclusive Professional Framework and the International Organization for Standardization Standards in Engineering Societies

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：通过包容性专业框架和国际标准化组织工程学会标准提高股权价值

• 批准号: 2305550
• 负责人: Brian Burt
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305550&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Raising; Equity; Values

The significance of the global problems faced by the United States as a world leader demand excellence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Excellence is the result of teams of talented, diverse people working together in an inclusive environment. Currently, the United States is struggling to meet national demand for a greater number and more diverse engagement of STEM academics and workforce professionals. Thanks to two decades of NSF ADVANCE-funded research on organizational change strategies to promote comprehensive and inclusive STEM disciplinary engagement, the struggle to achieve a diverse STEM academic and professional workforce is not because we don’t have evidence-based policies and practices for doing so, but rather the lack of nationally recognized standards to promote the collective awareness, knowledge, and application of these evidence-based policies and practices. However, as of May 2021, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Human Resource Management released their Diversity and Inclusion Standard (ISO:30415; ANSI, 2021). The problem that remains is the mechanism by which awareness, knowledge, and application of the newly released standard will be efficiently and effectively achieved. Professional and disciplinary societies (collectively referred to as “societies”) serve academic institutions and academic-influencing organizations such as accrediting agencies, national laboratories, corporations, and government, and are thus uniquely positioned to model and help facilitate efficient and effective adoption of the ISO standard:30415. Further, because engineers are especially attuned to standards, engineering societies are a primary focus. Thus, this project aims to provide engineering society leaders and stakeholders with ISO:30415 standardization resources and tools, which will drive awareness, knowledge and application of evidence-based inclusive organizational policies and practices. Ultimately, this project will enhance the United States’ STEM excellence and means of addressing the complex problems facing the nation, and the world.The goal of this project is to enhance awareness and adoption of the ISO:30415 Diversity and Inclusion Standards by engineering professional societies which will increase the awareness and adoption of evidence-based organizational policies and practices promoting inclusive disciplinary excellence. The project will engage three target audiences: (1) individuals, (2) organizations, and (3) systems. The project aims to accomplish its goal through a two-phase approach. Phase 1 involves the creation and piloting of a novel, web-based ISO:30415 platform tailored for engineering societies. Phase 2 includes developing and deploying activities to standardize a change process for change leaders. The Inclusive Professional Framework for Societies, a research-informed, evidence-based framework, will be foundational to the standardization of the organizational change process. Expected outcomes include: development of ISO:30415 engineering society web-based platform; engagement of 2 cohorts (up to 15 societies); collection, development, and use of organizational change tools and resources for engineering change leaders. Results will be disseminated through websites, webinars, engineering journals, and society professional conferences. 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.

作为世界领导者，美国所面临的全球问题的重要性需要在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 方面取得卓越成就，这是由才华横溢、多元化的人员在包容性环境中共同努力的结果。美国正在努力满足国家对更多、更多样化的 STEM 学者和劳动力专业人士参与的需求，这要归功于 NSF ADVANCE 资助的组织变革战略研究，以促进全面和包容性的 STEM 学科参与。实现多元化的 STEM 学术和专业劳动力并不是因为我们没有这样做的基于证据的政策和实践，而是因为截至五月份，缺乏国家认可的标准来促进这些基于证据的政策和实践的认识、知识和应用。 2021 年，国际标准化组织 (ISO) 人力资源管理发布了其多样性和包容性标准（ISO：30415；ANSI，2021），剩下的问题是新发布的意识、知识和应用的机制。专业和学科协会（统称为“协会”）为学术机构和学术影响力组织（如认证机构、国家实验室、企业和政府）提供服务，因此具有独特的地位，可以为学术机构和学术界建立模型和影响力。有助于促进 ISO 标准：30415 的高效采用。此外，由于工程师特别关注标准，因此，该项目旨在为工程协会领导者和利益相关者提供 ISO：30415。标准化资源和工具，这将推动基于证据的包容性组织政策和实践的认识、知识和应用，最终，该项目将提高美国的 STEM 卓越水平以及解决国家和世界面临的复杂问题的方法。该项目的目标是提高工程专业协会对 ISO:30415 多样性和包容性标准的认识和采用，这将提高对促进包容性学科卓越的循证组织政策和实践的认识和采用。该项目将涉及三个目标。受众： (1) 个人， (2) 组织，以及 (3) 系统。该项目旨在通过两阶段方法实现其目标，其中包括为工程协会创建和试点基于网络的 ISO:30415 平台。包括制定和部署活动来标准化变革领导者的变革过程。 社会包容性专业框架是一个基于研究的、基于证据的框架，它将成为组织变革过程标准化的基础。 ISO:30415 工程协会网络平台；2 个群体（最多 15 个协会）的参与；为工程变革领导者收集、开发和使用组织变革工具和资源。结果将通过网站、网络研讨会、工程期刊进行传播。 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师充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。政策、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围，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战略提供支持。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。