ADVANCE issues new grant guidelines

The ADVANCE Steering Committee has announced new guidelines for 2003-04 departmental transformation grants applications. The grants, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE program, will be used to significantly transform the working environment for women faculty in science and engineering.

NSF ADVANCE is a five-year project designed to promote recruitment and retention of women faculty in science and engineering and to improve the institutional climate for women faculty at U-M. The project began in Jan. 2002 and will continue through Dec. 2006.

Project director Abigail Stewart says the entire grant application process has been redesigned to make it more flexible and responsive to actual needs. "We learned last year that many people can benefit from smaller projects with shorter time lines, so we are inviting departments to submit smaller proposals that will contribute to the recruitment and retention of women faculty," Stewart says.

The process also has been altered so that proposals can be revised in negotiation between the proposing departments, their deans and ADVANCE project staff. "The process should be one of collaboration, not competition," Stewart says. "Our goal is to spread the available money across the campus as widely as possible."

Some examples of the types of projects that might be funded include inviting women speakers to participate in regular seminar series, travel to national and international meetings, short-term teaching and service reductions to accommodate research programs, recruitment events, leadership training, mentoring, or even assistance with child care or other caregiving responsibilities.

Members of the project steering committee are Stephen Director, dean of the College of Engineering; Alan Lichter, dean of the Medical School; Terrence McDonald, dean-elect of LSA; Pamela Raymond, professor of cell and developmental biology and senior counselor to the provost; and Stewart, professor of psychology and women's studies and associate dean for academic affairs in LSA.

For more information, visit http://umich.edu/~advproj/departmenttransgrant.html or contact Danielle LaVaque-Manty at dlavaque@umich.edu or (734) 764-9537.

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