Lehigh ADVANCE: Building Community Beyond Academic Departments, a five year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE - Institutional Transformation (IT) program, is part of a national push to increase the ranks of women in academic science and engineering careers. Read more »
Lehigh continues to identify and support tools to assist with dual career hiring that can increase the diversity of the faculty.
Educator, mentor, author and transformational speaker Dr. Christine Grant has been inspiring indiviudals and groups towards academic excellence for over 25 years at the university level.
When scholars talk about the culture of STEM or the culture of a specific STEM discipline, one important attitude to pay attention to is the importance a discipline's scholars place on the belief t
ADVANCE and other programs aiming to shrink the gender gap in STEM cannot achieve this goal without support from men.
Lehigh ADVANCE will provide time for men to gather and discuss gender from their perspectives and to use various resources, trainings, and strategies, to be supportive agents of change in the transformation of Lehigh University. If you are interested in being an ADVNCE Advocate for STEM Women, please contact Lehigh ADVANCE. This portion of the ADVANCE Web Site highlights information men on our campus can use now to be advocates for their female colleagues.
WORKSHOP: A campus wide workshop will be offered on October 3, 2013. Male Advocates from the North Dakota State University ADVANCE Forward Advocates and Allies Program will talk about their program and their actions and the progress they're making at NDSU. More information in News and Events.
Other Resources
Top 10 things Men can do to advocate for women in technical STEM fields. http://www.ncwit.org/resources/read-online-maleadvocate
Mentor, Network, Collaborate at Lehigh and beyond. A network of women scientists and engineers and the interlocking programs and resources to build community and strong faculty careers. The RAISE project is a campaign to increase the status of professional women through enhanced recognition of their achievements in science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics. Check it out! http://raiseproject.org/
Lehigh is committed to helping faculty members balance the responsibilities of their professional and personal lives and provides these work life balance resources as information for faculty.
2013-2014 BROCHURE: ADVANCE AT A GLANCE
