The goal of this NSF Advance Catalyst award is a five-year strategic plan to remove the systemic barriers that cause a shortage of female and minority STEM faculty at all academic ranks and their promotion into leadership positions.
Research Questions
- What is the distribution of STEM faculty by gender and minority status according to tenure track status (tenure-track faculty vs non-tenure track teaching faculty), rank, and department?
- What is the gender and URM distribution of STEM faculty in leadership positions?
- Have institutional recruitment and hiring processes led to the underrepresentation of women and URM STEM faculty? If so, which ones?
- What is the allocation of resources to STEM faculty and is it equitable?
- What barriers exist to the advancement of female and URM faculty?
- To what extent are existing structures (policies and procedures) successful at addressing these barriers, and what additional measures should be taken to do so?
