The ADVANCE Grant is an NSF Grant at MSU that seeks to catalyze culture change by recruiting and retaining more female faculty in STEM Fields at MSU.
10/15/2021
Sharing with all of you who care so deeply about the culture we live, work, and play in.
A pledge to foster more equitable research collaborations (opinion) Emily Skop, Martina Angela Caretta, Caroline Faria and Jessi L. Smith offer other scholars engaged in research collaborations a pledge to help foster and sustain more equitable relationships.
Pleased to announce that Advance Project CREST is funded! This NSF "adaptation" grant adopts the evidence based practices from the MSU TRACS Enhancing Research Capacity and Opportunity. The great work of all our TRACS leaders, friends, and allies made this possible. So a big thank you - and please like the new Project CREST page so you can follow our progress!
Come visit with us at the Equity in STEM Community Convening meeting, October 6-8 in Cleveland, OH.
08/19/2019
Hello ADVANCE Project TRACS community – wanted to share this latest update on the percent of women faculty at MSU.
In August 2017, ADVANCE Project TRACS hosted a meeting with premier social scientists to share knowledge on theories, concepts, and mechanisms that can be used by change agents to understand and measure faculty diversity-related transformation in higher education.
Here is a compendium that came from that meeting...
UNDERSTANDING HOW INCLUSIVE CHANGE HAPPENS IN THE ACADEMY
Recommended Social and Psychological Theories and Measures for to Assess Faculty Experiences
http://www.montana.edu/nsfadvance/archival/documents/White_Paper_ADVANCing_Social_Science.12.07.17.pdf
10/19/2017
We presented our social science research at the AWIS ADVANCE/GSE conference. Our last time attending as P*s. Bittersweet!
10/02/2017
Check out this article about faculty searches in ScienceNews today. Jessi L. Smith was interviewed and she notes that "Although academia can seem set in its ways, getting committees to change their hiring practices is possible..." ending with "I think faculty welcome change, but somebody has to show you how to do it.”
Hoping for a faculty job? Here's what hiring committees are looking for A small survey highlights the key criteria—and why they can be problematic
09/30/2017
Exciting to see our grant writing boot camp research highlighted in Nature! Hopefully will inspire others to adopt this program.
Grant support: Workshops for women : Naturejobs Nature | Naturejobs | Career Brief Grant support: Workshops for women Journal name: Nature Volume: 549, Pages: 121 Year published: (2017) DOI: doi:10.1038/nj7670-121a Published online 06 September 2017 This article was originally published in the journal Nature Article tools print email download pdf...
A bittersweet celebration at President Cruzado's home to mark the official end of ADVANCE Project TRACS efforts. Now it is up to to keep up the momentum. Not everyone on the team is pictured here... a heartfelt thank you to everyone.
08/08/2017
The place and the people made for a productive and engaging ADVANCing Social Science Think Tank! Thanks to all who participated and helped pull this off.
08/03/2017
Story about Grant-Writing Bootcamp...
MSU’s success training new female faculty in grant writing featured in national publication An MSU program that trained female STEM faculty in writing successful grant applications was featured in the journal BioScience.
07/19/2017
Wonder triplet power... activate! (Photo shoot day for ADVANCE Project TRACS. Thank you Nika Stoop!)