Estrada Mica, Eroy-Reveles Alegra, Ben-Zeev Avi, Baird Teaster, Domingo Carmen, Gómez Cynthia A, Bibbins-Domingo Kirsten, Parangan-Smith Audrey, Márquez-Magaña Leticia
1Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA.
2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA.
BMC Proc. 2017 Dec 4;11(Suppl 12):25. doi: 10.1186/s12919-017-0090-9. eCollection 2017.
The underrepresentation of minority students in the sciences constrains innovation and productivity in the U.S. The SF BUILD project mission is to remove barriers to diversity by taking a "fix the institution" approach rather than a "fix the student" one. SF BUILD is transforming education, research, training, and mentoring at San Francisco State University, a premiere public university that primarily serves undergraduates and ethnic minority students. It boasts a large number of faculty members from underrepresented groups (URGs), including many of the project leaders. These leaders collaborate with faculty at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), a world-class medical research institution, to implement SF BUILD.
Together, the campus partners are committed to creating intellectually safe and affirming environments grounded in the Signaling Affirmation for Equity (SAFE) model, which is based on robust psychosocial evidence on stereotype threat and its consequences. The SAFE model dictates a multilevel approach to increasing intent to pursue a biomedical career, persistence in STEM fields, and productivity (e.g. publications, presentations, and grants) by implementing transformative activities at the institutional, faculty, and student levels. These activities (1) increase knowledge of the stereotype threat phenomenon; (2) affirm communal and altruistic goals of students and faculty to "give back" to their communities in classrooms and research activities; and (3) establish communities of students, faculty and administrators as "agents of change." Agents of change are persons committed to establishing and maintaining SAFE environments. In this way, SF BUILD advances the national capacity to address biomedical questions relevant to communities of color by enabling full representation in science.
This chapter describes the theoretical and historical context that drive the activities, research and evaluation of the SF BUILD project, and highlights attributes that other institutions can use for institutional change. While this paper is grounded in psychosocial theory, it also provides practical solutions for broadening participation.
少数族裔学生在科学界的代表性不足，这限制了美国的创新和生产力。旧金山州立大学推进生物医学领域多元化（SF BUILD）项目的使命是通过采取“修复机构”而非“修复学生”的方法来消除多元化的障碍。SF BUILD正在改变旧金山州立大学的教育、研究、培训和指导工作，该校是一所主要服务本科生和少数族裔学生的一流公立大学。它拥有大量来自代表性不足群体（URGs）的教职员工，包括许多项目负责人。这些负责人与世界一流的医学研究机构加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）的教职员工合作，实施SF BUILD项目。
校园合作伙伴共同致力于营造基于公平信号确认（SAFE）模型的智力安全且积极肯定的环境，该模型基于关于刻板印象威胁及其后果的有力社会心理证据。SAFE模型规定了一种多层次方法，通过在机构、教师和学生层面开展变革性活动，来提高追求生物医学职业的意愿、在STEM领域的坚持度以及生产力（如发表论文、做报告和获得资助）。这些活动包括：（1）增加对刻板印象威胁现象的了解；（2）肯定学生和教师在课堂及研究活动中“回馈”社区的共同和利他目标；（3）将学生、教师和管理人员群体确立为“变革推动者”。变革推动者是致力于建立和维护SAFE环境的人。通过这种方式，SF BUILD通过实现科学界的充分代表性，提高了国家解决与有色人种社区相关的生物医学问题的能力。
本章描述了推动SF BUILD项目活动、研究和评估的理论和历史背景，并强调了其他机构可用于机构变革的属性。虽然本文基于社会心理理论，但也提供了扩大参与度的实际解决方案。
