The NSF Aspire Alliance National Change Team focuses on creating and disseminating professional development for future and current faculty about inclusive teaching, research mentoring and faculty advising. In order to align and reinforce professional development practices simultaneously at Institutional, Regional and National levels, the National Change Team is partnering with institutions, disciplinary research societies and professional organizations. The Team is developing face-to-face and synchronous online workshops and trainings, as well as a Train-the-Trainer approach of dissemination.

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The Institutional Change Initiative (IChange) seeks to cultivate institutions where STEM faculty from underrepresented groups (URGs) are widely recruited, hired, and retained, and all STEM faculty employ inclusive teaching, advising, and research mentoring practices. Institutional change requires a multilevel strategy of mutually reinforcing activities, including self-understanding, identification of levers for change, and use of resources for action.

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Regional Collaboratives (RC) are networks of geographically related 2- and 4-year institutions. Currently there are ASPIRE regional collaboratives in California (Southern and Central), Florida, Iowa, and Texas. In this model, institutions work together to share and develop programs and experiences that work towards two primary goals:

1. Increase the number and diversity of the pool of graduate students and qualified professionals pursuing a teaching career in STEM at 2-year colleges;

2. Expand and strengthen the skills of future, early-career and current STEM faculty to teach the diverse student population.

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The charge of the Research Team is to 1) offer research expertise on STEM academic cultures, faculty preparation, and organizational change in higher education to the Aspire Alliance team and 2) to conduct original research relevant to Aspire’s aims and to NSF’s portfolio of diversity and organizational work.

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