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Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The ADVANCE program aims to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession, with a focus on gender, racial, and ethnic equity.
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Supports systemic change projects to enhance gender equity and inclusion for STEM faculty. The NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the National Science Foundation's goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce. 1 In this solicitation, the NSF ADVANCE program seeks to build on prior NSF ADVANCE work and other research and literature concerning gender, racial, and ethnic equity.
The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM 2 faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. The NSF ADVANCE program provides grants to enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and to mitigate the systemic factors that create inequities in the academic profession and workplaces.
Systemic (or organizational) inequities may exist in areas such as policy and practice as well as in organizational culture and climate. For example, practices in academic departments that result in the inequitable allocation of service or teaching assignments may impede research productivity, delay advancement, and create a culture of differential treatment and rewards.
Similarly, policies and procedures that do not mitigate implicit bias in hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions could lead to women and racial and ethnic minorities being evaluated less favorably, perpetuating historical under-participation in STEM academic careers and contributing to an academic climate that is not inclusive.
All NSF ADVANCE proposals are expected to use intersectional approaches in the design of systemic change strategies in recognition that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity.
The solicitation includes four funding tracks: Institutional Transformation (IT) , Adaptation , Partnership, and Catalyst , in support of the NSF ADVANCE program goal to broaden the implementation of systemic strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession.
The Institutional Transformation (IT) track is designed to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative systemic change strategies that promote gender equity for STEM faculty within an institution of higher education.
The Adaptation track is designed to support the work to adapt, implement, and evaluate evidence-based systemic change strategies that have been shown to promote gender equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession.
Adaptation projects can either: 1) support the adaptation of evidence-based systemic change strategies to promote equity for STEM faculty within an institution of higher education; or 2) facilitate national or regional STEM disciplinary transformation by adapting evidence-based systemic change strategies to non-profit, non-academic organizations.
The Partnership track is designed to support the work to facilitate the broader adaptation of gender equity and systemic change strategies. Partnership projects are expected to result in national or regional transformation in STEM academic workplaces and the academic profession and demonstrate significant reach.
Partnership projects can focus on the transformation of institutions and organizations and/or the transformation within one or more STEM disciplines. The Catalyst track is designed to broaden the types of IHEs that are able to undertake data collection and institutional self-assessment work to identify systemic gender inequities impacting their STEM faculty so that these can be addressed by the institution.
Please note that NSF ADVANCE does not provide fellowships, research, or travel grants to individual students, postdoctoral researchers, or faculty to pursue STEM degrees or research. Undergraduate STEM opportunities can be found at stemundergrads. science.
gov and graduate STEM opportunities at stemgradstudents. science. gov .
[2] All the STEM fields supported by NSF are supported by the ADVANCE program including the learning, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. ADVANCE does not support the clinical science fields.
Updates and announcements ADVANCE Recorded Webinars and FAQs Information April 27, 2023 - Recorded Webinar for DCL Catalyzing Institutional Change October 8, 2021 - UCI ADVANCE: Crafting Culture Change 20 Years and Forward Additional program resources ADVANCE FAQs for NSF 20-554 Recorded ADVANCE Proposal Preparation Webinars Summary of Past ADVANCE Awards ADVANCE Brochure (NSF 21-50) ADVANCE 20th Anniversary Newsletter (NSF 21-54) ADVANCE 20th Anniversary Guest Seminar Series (March 2021) NSF Career-Life-Balance Initiatives Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program EDU Core Research (ECR:Core) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
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Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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