Catalyzing Institutional Change to Support Greater Equity, Inclusion, and Access in STEM Academic Careers and Advanced Degree Attainment
Funding Agency:
- National Science Foundation
Invites proposals from all eligible institutions of higher education to address gender, racial, and ethnic underrepresentation of STEM faculty through catalyst proposals, supplemental funding or conferences. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty across the country still do not reflect the gender, racial, and ethnic diversity of the country or of the students graduating with STEM doctoral degreesi despite decades of gains in undergraduate and graduate enrollment in STEM.ii The NSF institutional change programs, the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) encourage submission of proposals from all eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs), especially minority-serving institutions, to address faculty gender, racial, and ethnic underrepresentation of STEM faculty. While the AGEP program focuses primarily on racial and ethnic equity and the ADVANCE program’s primary focus is gender equity, all ADVANCE and AGEP proposals are expected to take an intersectional perspective, as described in the program solicitations, to implement systemic change efforts and address equity. Language in both program solicitations acknowledges that there are additional social identities that intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity that may also be important to consider when designing and implementing systemic change and equity work. These social identities include, but are not limited to, being a member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Agender (LGBTQIA+) community and/or identifying as having a disability.
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Dr. James L. Moore, III, Assistant Director, Directorate for STEM Education