The presentation will include an overview of the NSF ADVANCE program and the funding mechanisms available under the program.  The NSF ADVANCE program focuses on making systemic changes to address inequities based on gender for STEM faculty.  Organizational inequities may exist in policies, procedures, and practices as well as in the organizational culture and climate.  Grantees undertake institution-wide projects to change the organization to address systemic inequities for STEM faculty.  The ADVANCE program includes an expectation that all projects include an intersectional lens in the data collection, problem analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of the ADVANCE project to ensure the project includes a focus on equity issues for individuals who have multiple social identities such as, but not limited to, women of color, LGBTQ+, and individuals with disabilities.  The program has learned that thinking intersectionally is also important when designing equity training, implementing culture and climate change efforts, and other interventions that ask the  “over-represented” STEM faculty to do things differently because they also have intersectional identities that will impact the success of the intervention.  Highlights of lessons learned from the past 20 years of the program implementation will also be shared.

An overview of the NSF advance program and program funding

ACS Spring 2022

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