Purpose: The
NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the National Science Foundation's goal of a
more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce. In this
solicitation, the NSF ADVANCE program seeks to build on prior NSF ADVANCE work
and other research and literature concerning gender, racial, and ethnic equity.
The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based
systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic
workplaces and the academic profession. All NSF ADVANCE proposals are expected
to use intersectional approaches in the design of systemic change strategies for
STEM faculty in recognition that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in
isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity.
The solicitation includes
four funding tracks:
·
Institutional
Transformation (IT)-
up to $3,000,000 for five years.
Supports the development, implementation and evaluation of innovative systemic
change strategies within a single non-profit IHE with the intention that these
innovative strategies could be adaptable by other IHEs and organizations. The
IT project must include a rigorous research study related to the ADVANCE
project that contributes to knowledge about gender equity and systemic change
in STEM academics. NSF expects to make two awards.
·
Adaptation, up to $1,000,000 for three years.
Supports the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based organizational
change strategies to address systemic inequities for STEM faculty that includes
all the STEM disciplines. NSF expects to make six awards.
·
Partnership, up to $1,000,000 for three to five
years. Supports projects designed to result in the regional or national
diffusion and/or scale-up of evidence-based systemic change strategies.
Partnership projects are expected to involve two or more partners. NSF expects
to make six awards.
·
Catalyst, up to $300K for two years. Supports
the design and implementation of an organizational self-assessment to collect
and analyze data to identify STEM faculty inequities, pilot equity strategies as
appropriate, and develop a five-year equity strategic plan for STEM faculty. NSF
expects to make six awards.
Link
to Funding
Opportunity Announcement
Institutional Limit:
2 - one proposal to
IT-Preliminary, Adaptation, OR
Catalyst; one proposal to ADVANCE Partnership as the lead
organization; however, an institution may partner as non-lead institution on
multiple Partnership proposals in the same competition.
Internal
Competition: To
participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the
following,assembled
into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via
this
portal
with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by March 26,
2019:
A committee will be
convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For questions or issues
with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox
(limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.
Agency Deadlines:
·
IT:
Required Preliminary Proposal - October 1, 2019; Invited Full Proposal Target
Date - March 2, 2020
·
Adaptation
and Partnership: Required Letter of Intent - May 15, 2019; Full Proposal - May
22, 2019
·
Catalyst:
Full Proposal Target Date - June 3, 2019