Our Objectives
Cornell University is committed to diversity and gender equity and to an institutional environment where all faculty can achieve their greatest potential in research, education, and service. Despite the University's commitment, gender diversity remains a significant problem that affects the quality of our enterprise. Over the five year life of the ADVANCE grant, we aim to achieve 20% women faculty in each S&E department. This level will move the representation of women from token status to a critical mass in each department, the environment that most determines faculty daily life. Our longer-term objective is that a third of our S&E faculty be women by 2015, Cornell's sesquicentennial.
The National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Program
The NSF ADVANCE program's stated goals are to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty.
The ADVANCE Team
Provost W. Kent Fuchs
- W. Kent Fuchs, Provost, Principal Investigator
- Sheila Hemami, Professor and Associate Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Amy Pape Neish, Administrative Assistant
- Yael Levitte, Executive Director
- Kim Weeden, Associate Professor, Sociology
- Marjolein van der Meulen, Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
From left to right: Sheila Hemami, Amy Pape Neish, Yael Levitte, Kim Weeden, Marjolein van der Meulen
ACCEL: Advancing Cornell's Commitment to Excellence and Leadership
CU-ADVANCE Center
122 Day Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ph: 607.255.6867
Fax: 607.255.4672
advance@cornell.edu
