Limited submission: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (NSF ADVANCE)

The NSF ADVANCE program announcement states that this program contributes to the National Science Foundation’s goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce. 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 STEM2 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. The solicitation includes four funding tracks, (1) institutional transformation (IT), (2) adaptation, (3) partnership, and (4) catalyst, in support of the NSF ADVANCE program goal to broaden the implementation of systemic strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty.

An institution may submit one proposal to IT-preliminary, adaptation, OR catalyst. IHEs can also be a partner on one or more partnership proposals, but may be the lead on only one.

The UGA limited submission announcement summarizes ADVANCE’s purpose, award amounts, eligibility, deadlines for LOIs, pre-proposals, and/or full proposals, and the UGA internal proposal guidelines for interested researchers. The internal proposal deadline is Friday, March 15.

Please contact the Office of Research and Graduate Education

if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity.