Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination
awards may focus on one institution or organization, or they may
be a partnership between several institutions and/or
organizations. PAID projects can focus on all STEM
disciplines, several disciplines, or only one discipline,
including the social and behavioral sciences.
Projects may have an international, national, regional or local
scope.
UC ADVANCE PAID, a
program sponsored by UC Office
of the President and the National Science Foundation
(NSF), leverages the ten-campus structure at the
University of California to enable campuses to recruit,
retain, and advance more women and underrepresented
minority women faculty in the fields of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM).Through innovative data collection and the
strengthening of cross-campus networks, the program will
establish STEM
Principal Investigators at the Center for Research on Gender in the
Professions are conducting a longitudinal study about
how disadvantages for women, minorities, and LGBT (lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender) faculty in STEM
fields accrue over time.
Tools for
Change will provide solid economic data to compare the
costs of implementing best-practice policies with the costs
of a “leaky” pipeline; disseminate knowledge about the kind
of challenges faced by women of color in STEM that are
different from those faced by white women; build
“workshops-in-a-box” that can be used at institutions and
meetings across the country; and disseminate
survey protocols and trainings already developed by UC’s
Faculty Family Friendly Edge and the Center for WorklifeL
