The Academic Careers in Engineering &
Science (ACES) program at Case Western
Reserve University is part of the National
Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE program
to develop a national science and engineering
workforce that includes the full participation
of women at all levels of faculty and academic
leadership.
As the first private university to be awarded the NSF
ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant, we have
strived over the past three years to create a model of
institutional transformation, particularly in the areas
of enhanced transparency in faculty recruitment,
advancement, development, and retention policies
and improved accountability and effectiveness at the
school/college and departmental level.
Case’s institutional transformation has been a
multifaceted initiative to promote a campus-wide
culture characterized by equality, participation,
openness, and accountability.
To launch the project the ACES Investigators chose 31
NSF fundable departments to provide a broad set of
departmental variety in terms of size, composition,
and research methods in order to allow best practices
to be thoroughly tested before being recommended
to the university at large.
With generous support from the National Science Foundation, NSF-Advance (grant #0245054) the Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (ACES) program at Case Western Reserve University seeks to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership.
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