1. Georgia Tech ADVANCE Program for Institutional Transformation
Principal Investigator:
Jean-Lou Chameau
Co-Principal Investigators:
Mary Frank Fox
Mary Lynn Realff
Sue V. Rosser
Director:
Mary Hallisey Hunt
Coordinator:
Beth Gourbière

2. Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE
$3.7 million grant from NSF for 5 years
Currently in the second year
Focus is on tenure-track women, specifically their promotion to senior and leadership positions in STEM
Thrust is institutional transformation, since providing money for support of research of individuals has not increased the numbers of women as significantly or quickly as needed

3. ADVANCE Institutional Changes Proposed at Georgia Tech
A network of termed professorships established to mentor women faculty
A formal tenure and promotion training process to insure equity and remove subtle gender, racial, and other biases
A series of leadership retreats with women faculty and senior institutional leaders
A series of family-friendly policies, including active service-modified duties process, stop the tenure clock, and a campus lactation center
Data gathering and interviews to develop MIT-like Report to chart equity progress

4. Leadership of ADVANCE PI—Jean-Lou Chameau, Provost
Co-PIs—Mary Lynn Realff, Mary Frank Fox, Sue Rosser
ADVANCE Professors—Mary Jean Harrold (CoC); Jane Ammons (CoE); Mary Frank Fox (IAC); Mei Yin Chou (CoS)
External Advisory Board—Mary Lou Soffa (U of Pitt); Daryl Chubin (NACME); Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard); Lillian Wu (IBM); Judy Franz (APS); April Brown (Duke)