• ADVANCE participated in the 3-year NSF site visit on July 25-26, 2006. Including the Leadership Team, 78 people were interviewed, either individually or in groups.

The advisory committee of the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program of the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao observed may powerful achievements during our site visit on 5 April 2005. Many of the outcomes have been achieved in spite of the constraints and limitations of working in a small undergraduate...

The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks...

The most important activity of UM ADVANCE during this past year was preparation for the end of grant funding. Discussions about how best to continue to sustain effort on the project after the funding ends took place within the Steering Committee, the Gender in Science and Engineering Committee, and in discussions with Provost Paul Courant. In July 2005, Abigail Stewart and Pamela Raymond submitted a proposal for creation of an ongoing project office that would report to the Provost, and be housed in the Ins

Highlights from this report are New Additions to the PI team and the Executive Committee, 2007-2008 ADVANCE Marie Tharp Visiting Fellows Selected, Institutional Investments in New Women Faculty, New Institutional data: Space and Salary Equity, Workshop for Untenured Faculty, Diversity Luncheon with Lynn Conway, and Science of Diversity Seminar at Lamont.

This past academic year has been a period of relative stability for Case Western Reserve University under the direction of an interim president, and the selection of a new president, the first female president of the university, Barbara Snyder who starts July 1. The interim deans appointed last year...

Each year Georgia Tech posts their Annual Reports in a magazine called Energeia. This year's magazine reports the successes of the past five years and talks about what they hope to accomplish in their remaining time.

The ADVANCE Program at the University of California Irvine, supported by an NSF Institutional Transformation Award, has now completed its first four years and we are entering the final year of NSF funding. Our goals remain the recruitment, retention and advancement of...

In response to the NSF site visit report, received in September 2006, the ADVANCE Leadership Team met with President Carothers and Provost Swan. Report recommendations and institutionalizing ADVANCE initiatives were discussed. The President and Provost endorsed statements to promote..

Indeed, we are finding that after four years WISELI has become a recognized leader on campus in the areas of departmental climate and faculty hiring. We are the “go-to” resource for questions related to not only women in science and engineering, but for diversity in the...

The most important activity of UM ADVANCE during this past year was preparation for the end of grant funding. Discussions about how best to continue to sustain effort on the project after the funding ends took place within the Steering Committee, the Gender in Science and Engineering...

In June, the ADVANCE Leadership Team held a Strategic Planning meeting to plan the future of the program post-award. The next year will be focused on development, grant acquisition, and securing staff positions. The ADVANCE Center will be composed of a Work-Life Office, a Faculty Development...

ADVANCE activities are administrated through a Committee on the Status of Women in STEM at NMSU. The PI/Program Director (with Dr. Sterling assuming this role starting 5/15/05), Co-PI’s, faculty from each of the three colleges involved in ADVANCE (Agriculture and Home...

Year Four Annual Reports

During Year 4, the Evaluation Committee worked on developing a plan for external evaluation, producing an Executive Summary of the first climate survey, developing the second climate survey, and continued gathering of benchmark data.

Year 4 of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation for Faculty Diversity initiative was an extremely demanding, but gratifying one as we hosted three site visits. Preparing for our external visitors gave us the opportunity to reflect on what we have accomplished to date and revisit plans for the future.

The Administration fully supported the Incentive Fund with an allocation from the URI Provost and the URI Council for Research. An institution-wide mentoring program is underway. ADVANCE is supporting individual college policies by offering training workshops and training materials. In addition, college deans...

This short report lists significant accomplishments, areas of difficulty, and best ideas yet.

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.

The mission of the Earth Institute ADVANCE program is to increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women scientists and engineers at Columbia University. Columbia ADVANCE programs target both faculty, whose primary affiliations are with the academic departments, and endowed research scientists, whose primary affiliations are with research units within Columbia’s Earth Institute.

Under the leadership of Professor Penny Kukuk and the Steering Committee, the PACE Project at The University of Montana has benefited immensely from the continued support and assistance of the faculty and administration in increasing the number of women in the sciences. PACE Project activities in the past four years encouraged Departments...