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ADVANCE-VCU
Transforming the recruitment and advancement of women faculty in STEM at VCU
Women make up nearly half of the U.S. working population, but hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs. Attracting and retaining more women in the academic science and engineering careers maximizes creativity, innovation and competitiveness.
The ADVANCE-VCU initiative was established in 2018 with a $2.99 million grant from the National Science Foundation to an interdisciplinary team of faculty women leaders at Virginia Commonwealth University. The purpose of the grant is to transform VCU in ways that will effectively diversify its faculty across various intersecting identities in STEM fields and beyond. Its goal is to overcome immunities to change and increase the recruitment, retention and advancement of STEM women faculty across intersecting identities by initiating structural and cultural change.
Our objectives are to decrease structural and cultural barriers that prevent the diversification of the faculty and to increase the recruitment, retention and advancement of STEM women faculty at VCU.
VCU News
VCU project serves as national model to expand female STEM faculty recruitment and retention
By Brian McNeill
ADVANCE-VCU aims to help reduce structural and cultural barriers that hinder the diversification of faculty by attracting more women to academic science and engineering careers.