Advance Grants
ADVANCE-Nebraska funds up to $3,000 for departments to develop and execute their own recruitment strategies to diversify applicant pools. The faculty who apply are encouraged to identify the specific challenges for recruiting women to their department applicant pools and to develop a plan that is informed by best practices and national research to address these challenges.
Applicants are encouraged to examine the web sites of NSF ADVANCE programs at other institutions for best practices, new ideas, and challenges (www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/advance/itwebsites.jsp and http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/).
Requirements:
Submit an application with your plan and an end-of-year report on how the funds were spent. ADVANCE-Nebraska co-PIs (Barbara Couture, Namas Chandra, Mary Anne Holmes, David Manderscheid, and Julia McQuillan) will evaluate and select the recipients.
Criteria for selecting grant recipients includes A well-thought out plan with an appropriate budget. Innovative strategies, supported by examples (and/or literature) of the strategy (-ies) having worked at a comparable institution or other department within UNL.
Deadline: We will accept proposals until all of the funding has been disbursed. Proposal review is ongoing for the 2009/2010 academic year.
