Carter-Veale, Wendy Y.Cresiski, Robin H.Sharp, Gwen2024-12-112024-12-112024-10-31Carter-Veale, Wendy Y., Robin H. Cresiski, and Gwen Sharp. “System Change Evaluation of a State-System Approach to Faculty Diversification.” Understanding Interventions 15, no. 1 (October 31, 2024): 29–50. https://www.understandinginterventionsjournal.org/article/125374-system-change-evaluation-of-a-state-system-approach-to-faculty-diversificationhttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/37060Women and people of color continue to be underrepresented among academic faculty in higher education, particularly in STEM fields. We use the Water Systems of Change theoretical framework and a qualitative document analysis to evaluate a case study of five institutions within a state university system that formed the NSF-funded AGEP PROMISE Academy Alliance (APAA) to address a shortage of faculty from minoritized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences. The APAA developed and implemented a novel intervention that focuses on minoritized postdoctoral scholar recruitment, development, and conversion into tenure-track faculty roles, while leveraging the state system as a collaborative body. We assess the program’s transformative influence on the university system and participating institutions, revealing changes at the structural, relational, and transformative levels.22 pagesen-USAttribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Text