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Here is a list of 2024-2025 Priorities for the ADVANCE Center. 

  • Appoint a second faculty director
  • Encorporate and cite new faculty DEI research into existing programs and initiatives, and especially continue to elevate work by scholars from marginilized identities. 
  • Administer the 3rd Year of Advancing Future Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Program (working with scholars in cohorts 1 and 2, recruiting cohort 3).
  • Strengthen Mentoring
    • New Faculty Mentoring via INC
    • Launch support network for associate professors seeking promotion to full professor in the next year or two. 
  • Faculty retention- identify data, identify and/or amplify strategies which reduce non-retirement faculty attrition
  • Infuse equity-mindedness into faculty evaluation as updates to tenure and promotion processes and documentation occur.
  • Mobilize resources or share professional development opportunities for how individuals and units can make design and assess their personal and local level DE&I goals or stratgic plans.  
  • Support the co-creation of a shared framework for evidence-based practices for fostering workload equity. This is particularly important with respect to service and the service which is often rendered invisible. 
  • Sponsor the community of STEM women professional development gatherings.
  • Continue supporting faculty education for recruiting an excellent and diverse faculty.