Thispublicationprovides an overview of the development of the Self-Efficacy as Faculty Change Agent/or Diversity (SE-FCA-D) scale. The 5-item scale recently appeared as an additional module on the Higher Education and Research Institute (HERi) Faculty Survey 2019-2020 for the JO BUILD programs within the Diversity Program Consortium that areparticipating in the Enhance Diversity Study, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH U54GMI 19024). Thepiloted scale is meant to measure DPC Hallmark of Success FAC-16: "Strong self-efficacy to act as a change agent to enhance diversity in biomedical research and research training environments" (DPC, 2019). Once data are available, scale validation will movefonvard and.findings will be shared.
Keywords: biomedical researchprograms; change agency; diversity in higher education; enhance diversity study; faculty leadership; organizational change; program evaluation; scale development.