This document is a how-to for site visits that includes what to do now, a few months before, and right before the visit. It was presented at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting session on Preparing for a Mid Award NSF Site Visit.

The ADVANCE Leadership Team provides the focus and strategy for the ADVANCE initiatives. The team comprises faculty and university leadership -- predominantly from the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math disciplines. The leadership structure also encompasses a smaller sub-set of this group, which provides guidance to the work.

Contact information for CU-ADVANCE Personnel

Explained in this document is the University of Alabama’s ADVANCE program and how they have been successful as a group. “The University of Alabama at Birmingham uses a team approach to administration of ADVANCE programs and activities. The team (ADVANCE Steering Committee) consists of individuals in leadership positions within the university...” This document was written for the 2008 PI Meeting at a roundtable on Building an ADVANCE Team.

This presentation discusses how best to form a leadership team, based on Rhode Island’s ADVANCE program’s experience. Their composition, functions, challenges, lessons, and successes are shared. This presentation was given at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting.

CU-ADVANCE: Programming Guide for Chairs

Short Biography on Sheila Hemami. Includes contact information.

The UNC Charlotte ADVANCE Faculty Affairs Office provides leadership and support for all ADVANCE program components. The ADVANCE team centralizes and guides leadership and faculty development initiatives and mentoring efforts and supports policy changes to promote institutional changes to benefit all faculty.

Biophysicist Elba Serrano, Regents Professor and program director of New Mexico State University’s Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement, on Feb. 23, 2010 presented "Your Brain, Your Choice: Human Performance Enhancement Through Emerging Neurotechnologies" in Cone 210.

ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE: IT) funded programs are required annually to report data related to progress toward the goals of the program. The methods and procedures outlined in this toolkit will help you to meet the NSF reporting requirement.

This presentation from the 2009 PI Meeting covers: statics showing differences of women at varying career levels, how national societies can make effects compared to institutions, and then how for a society to be successful as an ADVANCE Grantee.

The University of Arizona’s ADVANCE Program provides a set of reflections on what worked for their team to be productive in this presentation for the 2008 PI Meeting in a session on Grant Management. An example reflection is “Your budget is not a source of funding for everyone else in the university”.

This presentation focuses on the efforts of the ACES Program. Their goals and objectives, levels of intervention, activities and progress, and challenges and difficulties are discussed.

ADVANCE is collecting information about other campus organizations and programs that share similar goals and objectives." Example organizations include African-American Studies or Faculty Senate.

Listed in this document are the benefits, barriers, and ISU’s approach to having a multidisciplinary ADVANCE Team. This was presented at the 2008 PI Meeting in the Roundtable on Building an ADVANCE Team.

This presentation discusses how Utah State University’s ADVANCE program has been successful in terms of team leadership, responsibility, and morale. They follow principles by Kotter: (1) have leaders with positions of power, who are credible, and able to drive change; (2) avoid personalities who are egos, snakes and reluctant team players; and (3) teams should have trust and common goals. This presentation was written for the 2008 PI Meeting.

Short Biography on Yael Levitte. Includes contact information.

List of contact information for CU-ADVANCE Liaisons

This presentation covers their model of stages of change when applied to institutional transformation.

Short Biography on Marjolein van der Meulen. Includes contact information.

“This is the second of two “toolkits” developed to provide ADVANCE: Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE: IT) awardees with guidance on program evaluation. The first toolkit focused on the numerical indicator data that are required by the National Science Foundation on an annual basis with an emphasis on developing common reporting to increase the potential for comparability of the data. Data comparability will be essential to enable a national-level evaluation of the ADVANCE: IT program. To some extent, t

Short Biography on Kim Weeden. Includes contact information.

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE collaborates with many colleges, departments and other organizations to accomplish its work and to ensure efficient and effective leveraging of resources.

Personnel biographies for ADVANCE Rising Tide Center

ADVANCE Rising Tide Center Research Personnel

Dr. Leslie E. Tower joined the WVU faculty in 2002. She has a dual appointment in the Division of Social Work and Division of Public Administration. Dr. Tower has published research on women and work, adult learners, and violence against women.

Amy Hessl is an Associate Professor for the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University. Dr. Hessl is interested in the interaction between ecosystem processes, climate variability and human activities in forested systems.

Dr. Marjorie Darrah has over 13 years of experience teaching in higher education. Her research interests are in the fields of algorithm development, artificial intelligence verification and validation, educational technology integration, haptics software development, and educational and program evaluation. Darrah taught ten years at Alderson-Broaddus College where she became the Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences.

Kasi Jackson is an interdisciplinary researcher working in feminist science studies. Although the body of her research is focused on women’s and gender studies, it also extends outside this area (for example, science, technology, engineering and math education and animal studies). Due to the interdisciplinary nature of these areas, she publishes in journals targeted to social science, science and humanities audiences, as well as to interdisciplinary audiences such as women’s and gender studies, among others

In the Fall of 1990, Professor King started his academic career at West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He served as the Director of Graduate Studies within the Department of Chemistry prior to his appointment as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught a range of courses in the Department of Chemistry while maintaining an active, externally funded research program generating peer reviewed p

Melissa Latimer is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Women’s Studies at West Virginia University. She received an MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kentucky. Melissa Latimer’s research and publications have focused on the major ways in which gender, race, and class inequality are constructed and reconstructed through labor market processes and welfare policies.

James Nolan is an associate professor in the Division of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University where he teaches courses in the area of crime and social control. His research currently focuses on police procedures, crime measurement, and hate crimes and homicide. Dr. Nolan’s professional career began as a police officer in Wilmington, Delaware. In 13 years with that department, he worked in a variety of divisions, including patrol, community policing, organized crime and vice, and planning a

Katie directs a comprehensive grants development program commensurate with institutional priorities, goals, and activities. She provides professional guidance to faculty to ensure effective and efficient grant proposal development and approvals. Katie facilitates large interdisciplinary projects between the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, other colleges, and outside collaborators by managing the pre-award application process.

The Working Group: Spotlights at WVU ADVANCE

Principal Investigators at WVU ADVANCE

Internal Advisory Board at WVU ADVANCE

External Advisory Board at WVU ADVANCE

Implementation Team at WVU ADVANCE

Internal & External Evaluators at WVU ADVANCE

Center Personnel for WVU ADVANCE

Organizational Chart at WVU ADVANCE

Contact page for WVU ADVANCE

The people involved in the UMD ADVANCE program.

Lehigh ADVANCE is pleased to have selected the ADVANCE Chairs for 2012 and 2013: Dr. Kate Arrington, Associate Professor, Psychology; Dr. Kristen Jellison, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Jill Schneider, Professor Biological Sciences, and Dr. Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering join the leadership team and have the prime responsibility of co-organizing the ADVANCE Academic Symposium, currently scheduled for 2013.

Lehigh ADVANCE is pleased to have selected the ADVANCE Chairs for 2012 and 2013: Dr. Kate Arrington, Associate Professor, Psychology; Dr. Kristen Jellison, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Jill Schneider, Professor Biological Sciences, and Dr. Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering join the leadership team and have the prime responsibility of co-organizing the ADVANCE Academic Symposium, currently scheduled for 2013.

The Lehigh NSF-ADVANCE Program seeks nominations and self-nominations of Lehigh tenured faculty for two positions as the 2012 ADVANCE Chairs in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Texas A&M Principal Investigators

People at Texas A&M ADVANCE

UWF Faculty ADVANCE Personnel

The six Georgia Tech ADVANCE Professors and the three Co-Directors of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) constitute the ADVANCE Team, which meets monthly.