Advance Project CREST

04/19/2025

Yesterday, the Project CREST Team received the CU Presidential Inclusive Excellence Award, a testament to our tireless efforts to reimagine faculty evaluation processes, reshape how we regard research, and co-create a more inclusive, caring academic culture. We are humbled to be recognized for our work over the last four years, empowering our extraordinary faculty to continue changing lives, transforming society, and expanding our understanding of the world.

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.”
-Octavia E. Butler, The Parable of Sower

10/11/2024

“You can be smart enough to be generous — and be smart enough to surround yourself with people who are generous.”

If you tend to be a giver rather than a taker, research shows you also could be much smarter than the average person.

07/19/2024

Our fearless leader Jessi L. Smith heads to the NSF in August to serve as a Program Director for the Social Psychology Program! The Project CREST Team will miss her in our final grant year, but we are excited to see her fulfill this lifelong dream!

Jessi L. Smith, Ph.D., is taking her knowledge and experience to the National Science Foundation to act as rotating Program Director for the Social Psychology Program.

06/08/2024

The Project CREST team engaged in a productive and enriching experience with colleagues from across the nation at the Equity in STEM Annual Convening in Baltimore, where numerous ideas, resources, hugs (and tacos) were shared over three days. Cultural transformation requires a dedicated team, and we are grateful to work alongside such remarkable individuals. ❤️

05/29/2024

Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?

With current crises of academic relevance and legitimacy, there is a need for epistemic equity inherent to community-engaged research. Scholars in science communication and science and technology studies have analyzed, advocated for, and conducted public engagement in pursuit of this goal. However,....

05/06/2024

“Systemic change that fosters connection, builds community and safeguards our well-being is essential for creating truly inclusive and sustainable leadership models.”

Too often, women must second-guess our well-earned authority, minimize our accomplishments or dim our light to make others comfortable, writes Roshni Rao.

03/26/2024

“Academics today are less likely to simply want to pontificate from ivory towers. “Writing a paper that’s cited by four or five people is important,” says Malcolm Hill, dean of the faculty at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. “But with climate change, poverty, racism, our faculty are coming in and saying, ‘I want my scholarship to also have relevance to real-world problems’.””

11/08/2023

Project CREST’s Faculty Fellow Dr. Edwardo Portillos wrapped up this fall’s workshops on Bias Literacy in the RPT review process. Over 30 faculty members serving on primary unit review committees took part! Learn more about this evidence-based workshop here https://research.uccs.edu/rpt-bias-literacy

10/22/2023

There is more than a work-life imbalance driving women from academia.

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance.

10/04/2023

Physics Today explores the various barriers women and minoritized faculty face in physics and related fields.

09/24/2023

The report from APA also includes several recommendations for tackling these barriers and better mentoring for faculty of color.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/09/21/psychology-faculty-color-barriers-tenure-promotion

08/11/2023

The National Girls Collaborative Project launches their new podcast TODAY! Tune in to “Empowering Change: Women and Girls in STEM”!

Advancing the agenda in gender equity The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) is a network of networks. We bring together organizations committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). NGCP supports and creates STEM e...