Advance Portal

Hello! Welcome to the home page of the Advance Portal Website. This site aims to link the activities of Advance Institutional Transformation Grant recipients. You can find information using the menus on the left of the page or the search feature on the right. If you have any questions about anything here or know of links that should be added, feel free to contact us.

Announcements

Overviews of ADVANCE Institutions available

Brief overviews of all 28 ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant recipients are now available in a single pdf here.

ADVANCE PI Meetings Available

National Academies Collection of Links on University Gender Equity Reports

The National Academies now has a webpage filled with links to reports by institution that are organized by state. Click here to see them.

New Report from Donna Nelson on Faculty Development

Donna Nelson provides a National Analysis of Minority Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities. "The first national and most comprehensive demographic analysis to date of tenured and tenure track faculty in the top 100 departments of science and engineering disciplines shows that minorities and women are significantly underrepresented. There are relatively few tenured and tenure-track underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in these research university departments, even though a growing number and percentage of minorities are completing their Ph.D.s. Qualified minorities are not going to faculties of many science and engineering disciplines." To read more, click here.

Webcast of March 27, 2007, Colloquy on Celebrating Women's Advancement in the Academy at RPI

Speakers at this event included Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Moderator; Dr. Shulamit Kahn, Professor of Economics at Boston University; Dr. Robert Drago. Professor in Women's and Labor Studies at Penn State University; and Dr. Carol Colatrella, Professor and Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology A two hour webcast of the event is available.

More information can be found here.

New Report from the American Association of University Professors

The AAUP recently released a report about Faculty Gender Equity Indicators. This report (found here) "...provides data on four measures of gender equity for faculty at over 1,400 colleges and universities across the country."

The National Academies Report: "Beyond Bias and Barriers"

The National Academies has released a new report called "Beyond Bias and Barriers" that addresses gender bias in academia and industry. Read more here.

National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

The goal of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic scientific and engineering careers. To meet this goal, the ADVANCE Program provides opportunities for both individuals and organizations: Fellows Awards, Institutional Transformation Awards and Leadership Awards. With each of the three types of ADVANCE awards, NSF seeks to support new approaches to improving the climate for women in U.S. academic institutions and to facilitate women's advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership. Creative approaches to realize the goal of the program are sought from women and men. Members of underrepresented minority groups and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.