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ADVANCEIncreasing the Participation and

Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

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ADVANCE: 2001-2004

3 types of award:

Institutional Transformation

Leadership

Fellows

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Institutional Transformation

19 awards

5-year Cooperative Agreement

Up to $750,000 per year

Requires collection of defined set of indicators/cooperative agreement

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Transformation

• University of Colorado at Boulder• University of California, Irvine• Hunter College• New Mexico State University • University of Washington• University of Wisconsin• Georgia Tech• University of Puerto Rico, Humacao• University of Michigan

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2003 Awards for Institutional Transformation

• Kansas State • Utah State• Case Western• University of Alabama, Birmingham• University of Texas, El Paso• University of Rhode Island• University of Montana• Virginia Tech• University of Maryland, Baltimore County• Columbia University, Earth Institute

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Leadership Awards

Focus on programs that enhance career development and promotion to senior professorships, academic and administrative leadership positions

Opportunity for discipline-specific overview of issues

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Fellows Proposals 2001 and 2003*

Enable promising individuals to establish or re-establish full-time independent academic careers

after a postdoc, OR

after a 2- to 8-year interruption for family responsibilities, OR

after a spouse relocates

*not offered in current solicitation

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UM ADVANCE (grant awarded Fall of 2001) reports significant progress in the recruitment of women scientists and engineers at the University of Michigan:

As a proportion of all science and engineering tenure-track offers, 15% of offers went to women in AY2001 and 41% in AY2004.

As a proportion of all science and engineering tenure-track hires, 13% of new hires were women in AY2001 and 39% in AY2004

One Example

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ADVANCE: New Solicitation

• Institutional Transformation deadline: July 22, 2205

• Leadership deadline: July 15, 2005• PAID (Partnerships for Adaptation,

Implementation, and Dissemination) deadline: January 26, 2006

• $6M in FY2005 and $4M in FY2006

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Institutional Transformation Awards

• To define and implement effective approaches to increase participation and advancement of women faculty into senior and leadership ranks

• To implement changes necessary to institutionalize approaches

• Program seeks to create a positive, sustainable and permanent change in the academic climate

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Leadership Awards

• Support for national and/or discipline-specific leadership

• Support efforts of individuals, small groups, and organizations to increase diversity in the academic workforce

• Support work that has systemic impact, e.g. addresses transitions between career stages

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nPartnerships for Adaptation,

Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID)

• Broaden the impact of institutional transformation efforts

• Seeks innovative approaches to adapting or implementing effective programs, policies, or practices, particularly addressing senior faculty and leadership level positions

• Support efforts at departmental or college level• E.g. workshops and planning activities• Encourages undergraduateand minority-serving

institutions and women’s colleges that are ‘underserved’ in the current ADVANCE portfolio