ARC Network Resource Library: All posts in "Reports" category

Equity in Academic Commercialization: Towards Systemic Change

Researchers in academic institutions want their work to matter, but few engage in commercialization activities that could expand their potential impact. Numerous factors discourage STEM faculty, postdocs, and graduate students from engaging in technology transfer.

Brooke Coley Investigates STEM Publication Timelines

This critical investigation centers the experiences of Black women STEM equity scholars. Specifically, in a moment where the pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion work is being met with great resistance and/or penalty, the myriad manifestations through which minoritized scholars endure costs for this work remain under explored.

Jess Gold Analyzes the Experiences of Equity Workers in Academic Institutions

This project investigates how equity workers in higher education institutions are represented in published literature, aiming to reveal trends and gaps in visibility.

Towards Greater Equity for STEM Faculty: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Occurring in tandem with growing social activism around anti-Black racism and police brutality, the COVID-19 pandemic and the institution, state, and federal responses to it upended numerous systems, disrupted careers, and cost lives in a way that exacerbated existing social inequities, including for STEM faculty.

Sue Rosser Examines the Experiences of Foreign Born and Foreign Trained STEM Faculty

Limited research has focused on the experiences of foreign born/foreign trained (FB/FT) faculty compared to the US born/US trained (USB/UST) faculty, and even less has used the intersectional lens of gender to explore issues faced by FB/FT faculty who identify as women compared to either FB/FT faculty who identify as men or USB/UST faculty who identify as women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments.

Erin Winterrowd Explores the Cost of Academic Motherhood

While the existence of a ‘child penalty’ for women in academic STEM(Medicine) has been documented in the past, less is known about whether that child penalty varies by race/ethnicity and if recent targeted policy efforts have diminished the negative effect.

Cultivating Equity in STEM through Inclusive Language

The ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network convened scholars from multiple disciplines for a 2-day workshop to prioritize under-studied research questions within the general theme of Problematic Jargon in STEM.

Using Big Data and Algorithms to Foster Equity in STEM

The ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network convened scholars from multiple disciplines for a two-day workshop to prioritize under-studied research questions under the general theme of Using Big Data and Algorithms to Foster Equity in STEM.

Dawn Culpepper Surveys Faculty Development Programs to Mitigate Bias in the Academic Workplace

Merely raising individual awareness of bias can reinforce, rather than mitigate, its impact in the academic workplace.

Identity-based Harassment

The ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network convened scholars from multiple disciplines for a 2-day workshop to prioritize under-studied research questions within the general theme of Identity-based Harassment.

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup Examines the Equity of Industry-Academia Partnerships

A health scientist and journalist with a background in biology and health policy, Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup is used to studying how entities and organizations intersect.

Rodica Lisnic Examines Strategies of Persistence Among Women of Color in STEM

Dr. Rodica Lisnic is a visiting assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Arkansas.

Ramón Barthélemy shines a light on policies to support LGBT+ faculty and students in STEM

Dr. Ramón Barthélemy is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Kimberly Scott investigates funding trends for girls and women of color in STEM

Kimberly A. Scott is Professor of women and gender studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU) and the founding executive director of ASU’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST).

Allison Mattheis Looks at Understandings of Gender in STEM Higher Education Research

Dr. Allison Mattheis is an associate professor in the Division of Applied and Advanced Studies in Education at California State University Los Angeles, where she teaches courses in qualitative research methods and sociopolitical contexts of education.

Beth Mitchneck Assesses Biases in Citation Analysis

Dr. Beth Mitchneck is a Professor Emerita in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona. She also was the lead program officer for the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program to promote gender equity in academic STEM.

Teresa Nelson Wants to Develop Entrepreneurship Among Stem Women in Academia

Dr. Teresa Nelson is a Professor of Strategic Management at Simmons University, and is known globally for her scholarship related to women and gender and diversity in entrepreneurship and family business.

Ramon Goings Shines a Spotlight on Stem Contingent Faculty Research

Dr. Ramon Goings is an Assistant Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture interdisciplinary doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Joya Misra Wants to See Women as Senior Leaders in Academia

Dr. Joya Misra a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts.

Ethel Mickey Examines Stem Faculty Networks

A sociologist studying gender, work and organizations, STEM, and social networks, Dr. Ethel Mickey is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with their ADVANCE Program.

Cara Margherio Highlights the Importance of Intersectionality in Mentoring

As Assistant Director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE), Dr. Cara Margherio conducts research and evaluation to examine the mechanisms which may transform inequities within STEM higher education.

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Funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program, Awards HRD-2121468 and HRD-1740860, the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network seeks to achieve gender equity for faculty in higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As the STEM equity brain trust, the ARC Network recognizes the achievements made so far while producing new perspectives, methods and interventions with an intersectional, intentional and inclusive lens. The leading champion in North America to propel the inclusion of women in the field of engineering, the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), serves as the backbone organization of the ARC Network.