ADVANCE
Sister Programs
During the 2001-2002 academic year, NSF awarded nine ADVANCE
Institutional Transformation awards to colleges universities across
the United States and territories. Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE
sister institutions are as follows:
University
of California-Irvine will establish equity advisors in
each science school to assist in recruitment, mentoring, retention
and advancement of faculty; appoint two ADVANCE chairs, to be
awarded to tenured faculty in the sciences with strong academic
credentials and a demonstrated commitment to gender equity; conduct
gender awareness workshops for faculty and administrators; and
monitor gender equity issues on an ongoing basis.
University of Colorado at Boulder will increase the number
of women serving in academic leadership positions in science,
mathematics, engineering and technology programs through its Leadership
Education for Advancement and Promotion Program.
Hunter College of the City University of New York
University of Michigan will launch a campus climate initiative,
a gender equity resource fund and a department transformation
initiative to provide interventions to improve opportunities for
tenure-track women faculty in basic science and engineering fields.
New Mexico State University will increase the number of
women in its tenure-track positions in science, mathematics and
engineering, and will establish a Committee on the Status of Women
to monitor progress and identify ways in which University programs
can be better targeted to support the advancement of women.
University of Puerto Rico in Humacao will improve training
for new faculty and administrators to increase gender equity.
University
of Washington will create a Center for Institutional Change
to transform the culture in science, engineering and mathematics
on campus. Activities will include leadership development, department
cultural change, policy transformation, mentoring women faculty,
and creating a transitional support program for faculty.
University of Wisconsin-Madison will establish a National
Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute to gather
data, monitor results and disseminate information on the best
practices for advancing women. As part of its chancellor’s
endowment goals, the university is including the creation of ten
professorships for the advancement of women in science and engineering.
