ADVANCE

							       NSF ADVANCE –
 Increasing the Participation and
   Advancement of Women in
Academic Science and Engineering
            A report on ADVANCE activities and planning




                              May, 2004
       ADVANCE (NSF 02-121)

• Fellows – reviewed and funded directly by
  Engineering Directorate in years 02 and 04

• Institutional Transformation – NSF-wide panel
  review and managed by ADVANCE coordinator
  (Alice Hogan) in years 01 and 03

• Leadership – NSF-wide panel review and managed
  by ADVANCE coordinator in years 01 and 03
      Advance Fellows Awards

• Postdoctoral status (2-5 years)
or
• Disruption of career due to family
  responsibilities (2-8 years)
or
• Relocation of spouse
   New Fellows Awards this year

• 15 proposals were received by the
  Engineering Directorate and panel
  reviewed
• 4 new awards were made, each for
  $387,500 total for 3 years
• 2 awardees are postdoctoral fellows
• 2 are Relocation of spouse fellows
 Institutional Transformation Awards

Total NSF investment to date: $69M

67% of the awards include Engineering activities

57% of the wards have an Engineering Principle
  Investigator or co-PI

Total Engineering Directorate investment to date:
  $3.7 M
 Engineering funding for Leadership
           awards to date
  A total of 5 Leadership awards were made
  in 2001 and 2003 totaling $1.3 M
                       Leadership awards focus on
                       mentoring and networking for
                       junior women faculty, creating
                       database of demographics of
                       Chairs and progress of women
                       faculty; and senior women
                       faculty leadership network
WELI – Utah Workshop
                       (WELI)
 WELI – an Engineering investment
      in advancing diversity
• Primarily funded by ENG
  with some ADVANCE funds
• Series of activities to
  promote leadership among
  senior women faculty –
  latest workshop attended by
  42 men and women, including
  Deans, Associate Deans,
  Directors of Women in
  Engineering programs, SWE,
  WISE and faculty
• http://www.weli.eng.iastate
  .edu/index.asp
       Future ADVANCE activities

• Currently planning ’05 solicitation

• A survey conducted of the Fellows program, both
  awardees / declines to assess effectiveness –
  report to be published

• Site visits of IT awards – 6 to occur in June

• ENG IT and Leaders Awardees Meeting – being
  planned for late July – lessons learned on the path
  to advancing diversity in Engineering