“AdvanceVT collects and reports data on the number and percentage of women faculty by college, rank, and department, as well as new hires, departures, and promotion and tenure outcomes. AdvanceVT also monitors the usage and impact of university work-life policies and conducts special studies on a variety of issues impacting women faculty. Information is shared with the university community through newsletters, presentations and reports.” A list of reports, presentations, posters, and toolkits can be found o

The study design included a series of focus groups with faculty and staff, a web-based survey sent to all faculty and EPA staff, and interviews with childcare experts in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

This presentation is a high level review of a program in education and human resources. The types of studies that were done and when they were done is pictorialized. This presentation was given at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting in a session called Advance Topics in Project Evaluation, Session 10

Mizzou ADVANCE will evaluate both its programs (i.e., STRIDE, mentoring, and theatre) and its impact or progress toward its goal (i.e., increased advancement of women faculty).

In order to evaluate MU-ADVANCE's success, we worked with the program's evaluator to establish progress indicators for each of the three initiatives.

... We also attempt to assess whether or not any changes we observe are attributable to the interventions, but this is very difficult to determine given the short timeframe and small numbers in our populations.

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

In fall of 2001 the University Committee on Women appointed a Task-Force on Data Analysis to examine issues of data collection and reporting on the status of women at Iowa State University." This report includes "extensive recommendations for recording and improving women's status on campus.

This webpage lists the missions statement and goals for internal and external evaluation for the ADVANCE Program at University of Montana.

The NYU ADVANCE-PAID program is evaluated both internally and externally, including both quantitative and qualitative measures. The quantitative assessment adopts the ADVANCE Toolkit for Reporting Progress toward NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Goals...

The external evaluation site visit of the Marshall University ADVANCE project was on May 7, 2007. The External Evaluator met extensively with the PI and Program Director and in 45-minute blocks of time with representatives of the three Initiatives (Recruitment...

The GT NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program is taking an integrated approach to institutional factors that supports the full participation and advancement of women, and provides a model of best practices, in academic science and engineering--constituting the core intellectual merit and broader impacts of the initiative.

We used two sources of data to inform the evaluation of the Women Faculty Mentoring Program (WFMP). First, we interviewed 26 women faculty in the biological and physical sciences to collect baseline data about their experiences at the UW-Madison. We then used the results from...

The chapter focuses on evaluations of programs designed and implemented to improve the participation of underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities (URMs) in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and junior faculty levels.

A list of how the URI's ADVANCE program measures their progress is broken down by areas and explained on this webpage: benchmarks, climate survey, NSF reports, papers and presentation, and program evaluations.

The ADVANCE Program at the University of Michigan is pleased to work with departments, schools, and colleges that are interested in some kind of systematic assessment of their particular climate for students, staff, and/or faculty.

Virginia Tech hired external evaluators to review the AdvanceVT program in 2006.

Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP) is an initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder that was funded by the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program from 2002 through 2008...

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

The UPR-H ADVANCE-IT Principal Investigator, Dr. Idalia Ramos and Co-Principal Investigator, Prof. Sarah Benítez; contracted an external evaluator to develop and implement the ADVANCE-IT UPRH 2005 External Evaluation, based on the existing Evaluation Plan. The initial meetings were held between ...

The types of evaluation done at Marshall University’s ADVANCE program along with who does them is explained on this webpage. These evaluations are done through self-study, data collection and analysis, an advisory board, and external evaluations.

The External Evaluator visited the MU campus on Thursday, February 28, 2008 from 8:30 AM to 12:00 Noon. Interviews of ADVANCE Co-PIs and key personnel were in 15-20 minute blocks of time. The MU-ADVANCE Program Coordinator arranged the interviews...

This presentation looks at the percentage of women in AGU and ways to increase those percentages. The presentation suggests to educate, engage, do outreach, facilitate, and partner and collaborate. This presentation was given at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting in the Concurrent Session 8 called Perspectives From Members of Professional Societies.

Evaluation is a critical component of ADVANCE UNC Charlotte, to both assess program impact and to inform the community of best practices. Principal programs are New Faculty Mentoring, Mid-career Mentoring,

To help measure progress at Georgia Tech, their ADVANCE Program has listed their evidence that changes have been made. How they measured progress, collected data, and evaluated it is explained on this webpage.

This presentation covers the different ways to do evaluation, an actual evaluation, and some results for measuring change at ADVANCE institutions. This presentation was given at the 2007 PI meeting.

This webpage shows an assessment of the GAIN Writing retreat.

The purpose of the external evaluation is to collect and analyze summative data to measure the project’s success in meeting the objectives outlined below. These objectives address the broad areas of promotion and retention of female faculty; recruitment practices; and resource allocation.

This presentation covers how to evaluate whether or not change has been made by the ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan.

Mizzou ADVANCE collects and reports institutional data using a toolkit (pdf document or word document) used by other ADVANCE projects at universities across the nation. [link to toolkit] The toolkit specifies the type and timing of data collection.

The external evaluation focuses specifically on collecting summative evaluation data to measure the project’s success in meeting the objectives set forth in Figure 1 below. These objectives focus on: Promotion and retention of female faculty; Representation of women in the higher echelons of the administrative hierarchy; Recruitment practices; and Resource allocation.

“ISU, like most research-based universities, struggles to attract and retain women faculty in STEM. Attrition rates of women faculty are higher than those for male faculty and rates for faculty of color are higher than those for white faculty. Across ISU STEM departments, 26% of assistant professors, 22% of associate professors and 9% of full professors are women.” This webpage explains how their hiring and rank profiles reveal discrepancies and why their attrition rate for women is high.

ADVANCE Rising Tide Center Evaluation Team

In addition to the evaluation component of the ADVANCE program, 6 social science research studies are being conducted in concert with a subset of the 12 ADVANCE activities.

External Evaluation Report for Texas A&M ADVANCE -Year 1, May 2011 by Sandra Laursen