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ing and retaining women faculty from underrepresented minority groups is one of the deans’ top priorities.
Riordan said his work with the ADVANCE program since 2008 “has been one of the true pleasures of my career. I have learned much about the impact of implicit (and explicit) bias, stereotyping and isolation on faculty success and impor- tantly, understand the practical strategies to mitigate against these behaviors to ensure better outcomes in hiring and retention. In the next few years, I look
forward to seeing ADVANCE fully integrated and sustained as a key pro- gram central to UD’s success.”
It is not a stretch to say that women and women of color are sure to have greater representation and increasing support in research at the University of Delaware, producing who-knows-what kind of advances that might otherwise go unimagined.
“Our long-term goal is to sustain this work beyond the NSF years,” Doty said.
Activities already planned under
UD’s ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation include:
▲ Bi-annualfacultysatis- faction survey
▲ Networkingand educationalsupportfor department chairs and upper administrators
▲ Nationalresearchcon- ference on “Women of Color in the Academy”
▲ Provostwalkabouts, which will bring the
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provosttoallcolleges during the grant years
Enhancedmentoring forassociateprofessors and faculty of color
Annual“Promotion andTenure”work- shops for tenure-track faculty; “Promotion toFull”workshopsfor associate professors;
“AdvancingtoLeader- ship” workshops for full professors
▲ Mini-grantsforfaculty development
▲ Policiesandproce- duresreview
▲ Collectionandenhanced presentation and dis- seminationoffaculty- demographics data
Pamela Cook (third from right), principal investigator, is shown with the ADVANCE team. The team includes the co-principal investigators, John Sawyer, Heather Doty and Robin
Andreasen, and the director, Emily Bonistall Postel. Other members of the team include Jawanza Keita, Lynn McDowell, Shawna Vican and Joan Buttram.
Learnmore: www.udel.edu/advance
12 | UD RESEARCH
Look into the labs, listen up in the classrooms, head out to the fields, dive deep into
the sea or into an ocean of data—University of Delaware women are there, asking questions, testing ideas, looking
for solutions. In the next few pages, we offer a glimpse into the world of seven faculty research- ers—what drives, sustains and inspires them.
Check out our videos with each researcher in our online edition at www.udel.edu/ researchmagazine
IN 2013, 24.3% OF FULL PROFESSORS IN SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & HEALTH IN THE U.S. WERE WOMEN. — NSF
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