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

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

This year, MU-ADVANCE provided liaisons to a total of 15 search committees in 6 STEM departments, to assist in recruiting well-qualified candidates to open positions. MU-ADVANCE met with search committees to discuss the program, and created a new brochure that provides...

There are 15 female faculty (6 senior and 9 junior) involved in the Advance Triad Mentor Program. The Provost has called for formal mentoring programs to be established. The Triad Mentor Program will provide data and information that will be ...

Data for this year’s report were acquired through the University of Rhode Island’s Human Resources Department, a stable and reliable data source and a change from last year’s data sources that comprised primarily of individual colleges and/or departments.

The most serious problem facing women in science and engineering is isolation. NJIT ADVANCE uses a variety of strategies to address this issue, linking women researchers to each other, to male peers, and to female counterparts in industry. By supporting interdisciplinary research synergy in this manner, we believe we can help expand women’s professional networks, improve information flow, stimulate social capital formation, and increase the number of women leaders.

“It’s so different!” This comment, from a long-term member of the UW-Madison faculty, summarizes the transformation of our campus. Women increasingly feel empowered to speak up and take action. Gender issues are visible, taken seriously at all...

The ADVANCE program at UPRH has initiated a synergistic process to create the needed environment to promote the advancement of women in the science faculty through the integration of university constituencies: ADVANCE Coordinating Committee: Administrators, Programs and offices that support and provide services to women in the science faculty (They serve as advocators, help with program implementation, improve coordination and information sharing with university and community, and promote education and disc

The ADVANCE Program at the University of California, Irvine supported by an NSF Institutional Transformation Award has now completed its second year. Our goals are the recruitment, retention and advancement of tenured women faculty at UCI. In general, our...

During year two of the initiative ADVANCE further refined the UTEP goals. By the end of the grant period, the ADVANCE team would like to ensure that the UTEP science (including the social and behavioral sciences) and engineering departments 1) value a...

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

We have modified the headings and the wording of the fifth goal of the ADVANCE program. They now are: 1. Evaluation: To develop and share a comprehensive understanding of the status of women STEM faculty. 2. Recruitment: To increase the number of ranked women STEM faculty...

The goal of the ISU ADVANCE program is to investigate the effectiveness of a multilevel collaborative effort to produce institutional transformation that results in the full participation of women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math fields in the university. Our...

With the assistance of Ann Boughner, the Faculty Search Guidelines that were approved by the Provost in Spring of 2004 were presented to the department assistants and business managers in the CWRU School of Engineering in a training session conducted by Amanda Shaffer and Beth...

Year Two Annual Reports

This report lays out the design of the external evaluation, presents data collected in the second year of the ADVANCE project as well as baseline data against which this second year data will be compared, and reports on differences highlighted by these comparisons.

The Advance Program is hosting two discussions with the chairs of Natural Sciences and Engineering each semester. One of these discussions is an informal discussion with peers about issues they face in their leadership roles, and one is a facilitated workshop on a...

The ADVANCE project at the University of Michigan has made efforts to engage discussion, stimulate new efforts and create real change throughout the campus. The importance to our campus of the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant lies in several areas...

ADVANCE activities are administrated through a Committee on the Status of Women in STEM NMSU. The PI, Co-PI’s, faculty from each of the three colleges involved in ADVANCE (Agriculture and Home Economics, Arts and Sciences, and Engineering) and...

Each year Georgia Tech posts their Annual Reports in a magazine called Energeia. In their second magazine, they discuss the two major initiatives undertaken that year: a survey of male and female faculty on perceived barriers and facilitators, and an assessment of tenure procedures and their inherent biases.

ADVANCE has successfully partnered with Human Resources to produce the first University brochure on the Work-Life Program, a new initiative at Rice. This informational brochure was designed to help recruit new faculty. Copies were...

Dr. Carolyn Martin, Provost and principal investigator provides institutional leadership and commitment, as well as a top level of accountability. She is responsible for ADVANCE project oversight and disseminating information to the wider university community about the CUADVANCE Center’s opportunities and findings.

The mission of the Columbia Earth Institute (EI) ADVANCE program is to increase the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women scientist and engineers at Columbia University. Columbia ADVANCE programs target both officers of instruction, whose primary affiliations are with the academic departments, and officers of research, whose primary affiliations are typically with research centers.

The ADVANCE project at the University of Michigan has made efforts to engage discussion, stimulate new efforts and create real change throughout the campus. The importance to our campus of the NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant lies in several areas: (1) It ensures that there is consistent institutional support for a process that is inevitably slow and difficult. The consistency of the support guarantees that efforts will not flag or reverse. (2) It provides national-level validation and confirm

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...

Quarterly Report Year One and Quarterly Report Year Two for WVU ADVANCE

Lehigh University ADVANCE program reports