Advance Project TRACS

10/15/2021

Sharing with all of you who care so deeply about the culture we live, work, and play in.

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.

07/20/2021

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!

08/21/2019

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.

12/07/2017

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.”

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.

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...

08/22/2017

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...

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!)