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ADVANCE-Nebraska

...Advancing Women, Advancing STEM

America’s future prosperity requires talented men and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln endorses the vital goal of recruiting, retaining, and promoting more women in STEM fields because:

  • To grow Nebraska’s economy and compete for talented workers, UNL must support all potential and existing employees.
  • Having women faculty attracts more women students into STEM fields.
  • A competitive UNL creates a workplace that welcomes and supports all potential faculty regardless of gender.
  • National funding agencies require and reward diverse research teams and efforts to reach diverse student and general populations.
  • The quality of research and creative solutions are enriched by diverse views, perspectives, and critical analyses. 

Announcements

School of Biological Sciences Wins ADVANCE Chancellor's Initiative Award

Mark your calendars! 

The ADVANCE-Nebraska Chancellor’s Initiative Award will be given out on February 9th, 3:00pm in the Van Brunt Visitor’s Center on the UNL City Campus to School of Biological Sciences. 

The department has successfully built a faculty that is more representative of female-

male ratio in the discipline by implementing a proactive hiring policy in the 1990s.

Some 37 percent of the school’s faculty are women, up from 10 percent 20 years ago. The school has aggressively pursued a dual-career hiring strategy and half of its female faculty have dual-career partners. The 

school also has utilized the opportunity-hire strategy to recruit female partners of faculty hired in other disciplines. Currently 16 of the school’s 45 budgeted or partially budgeted faculty are women.

Come join us for the celebration!

 

UNL attempts to bridge gender faculty ratio gap among STEM departments

Daily Nebraskan, December 4, 2011
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) departments at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln increased the number of female faculty members since 2009 and set a course to
improve female faculty culture at UNL, according to a university professor.Professor Mary Ann
Holmes directs the university's five-year, $3.8 million ADVANCE-Nebraska grant responsible for
changes in STEM personnel at UNL. 
Read full article.

New Work Life Balance Brochure for UNL

UNL Communications has redesigned and updated UNL's Work Life Balance Brochure.

 

ADVANCE-Nebraska Co-PI In the News

Study shows fatherhood, careers important to U.S. men

The classic figure of a distant, career-focused father who spends lots of time at the office and who
has little time for his kids might be getting outdated, a new study shows. Co-authored by Julia McQuillan,
the study showed 75 percent of U.S. men rated a good father as very important. Continue reading…

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Article Highlights

A Report for the White House Council on Women and Girls
Women in America, 2011Women in America, March 2011 - Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being