THRIVE Partnership
THRIVE Cohort Overview
The THRIVE Partnership & Overview(NSF ADVANCE #2204577) supports 20 Hispanic-serving Institution* (HSI) STEM Chairs and their change teams in a year-long program in developing and enacting a plan that promotes a psychologically healthy workplace where faculty, especially Latinas, thrive. We encourage all interested STEM department chairs from Hispanic Serving Institutions to apply. *(Note: Emerging HSIs are included as space allows.)
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- Cohort Application Overview--)—THRIVE Cohort 2 APPLY NOW (Due March 29, 2024)
- Cohort Application Overview--)—THRIVE Cohort 2 APPLY NOW (Due March 29, 2024)
Guiding Principles
The principles of the American Psychological Association's Psychologically Healthy Workplace (APA PHW) are our guiding principles. The APA Psychologically Healthy Workplace principles are:
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- employee involvement,
- work-life balance,
- employee growth and development,
- employee recognition, and
- health and wellbeing
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APA PHW examples specific to an academic department can be found here.
Figure 1: APA Psychologically Healthy Workplace Principles
Objectives
To achieve our goal of psychologically healthy departments, we seek to empower chairs, and their teams, to create department change consistent with a psychologically healthy workplace.
We expect that chairs and teams will be “empowered” to make departmental changes through the E4 approach: ENRICH, ENGAGE, ENABLE, and EXAMINE (Figure 2):
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- Enrich department change leaders’ awareness and knowledge of psychologically healthy workplaces and evidence-based practices via the THRIVE Community of Practice and Cohort Learning Circles.
- Engage STEM department change leaders in networking and resource sharing at the annual spring Latina THRIVE Summit.
- Enable department transformation through helping teams identify, plan, and execute departmental change to promote a healthier department climate (e.g., THRIVE Learning Circles, and Executive Coaching, available as needed) and
- Examine, through THRIVE Social Science Research Study, how such chair and change team support impacts improvement of diversity, department climate, well-being, and productivity, especially for Latina faculty in STEM.
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Figure 2: Latina THRIVE Partnership Project Overview Graphic
The THRIVE Project is a NSF ADVANCE Partnership supported by the following organizations:
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*Note: Added post funding
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant #2204577. Any opinion, findings, conclusions and/or recommendations expressed in this matter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.