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About the ADVANCE Scholar Program
Program Goal
The ISU ADVANCE Scholar Program is intended to enhance the recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty of color in STEM disciplines. The objective is to facilitate mentoring relationships between ISU STEM women faculty of color and eminent scholars in their fields. The target audiences are tenure-eligible faculty members as well as mid-career (tenured) faculty members who are nearing critical transition points in their careers.
Benefits
Eminent Scholar (mentor): In the first year of the mentoring relationship, the ISU ADVANCE Program will underwrite travel expenses (transportation, hotel, and meals) and provide a $500.00 honorarium for the Eminent Scholar to travel to ISU, deliver a departmental research seminar, and spend time conferring with her or his ISU mentee.
ISU ADVANCE Scholar: In the first (or second) year, the ISU ADVANCE Program will underwrite travel expenses (transportation, hotel, and meals) for the ISU ADVANCE Scholar to visit the Eminent Scholar's home institution, deliver a research seminar, and spend time conferring with the Eminent Scholar.
Additional contacts between the Eminent Scholar and ISU ADVANCE Scholar are encouraged and should occur regularly (at least once per semester) via phone or email. In consultation with the Eminent Scholar, the ISU ADVANCE Scholar will prepare a plan that outlines prospective discussion topics, resource sharing, and desired outcomes fo the mentoring relationship. The plan will be submitted to the ISU ADVANCE Program after the initial campus visit. Logistical arrangements for the visits are made through the ISU ADVANCE Program.
Application Process
Each interested ISU faculty member will work in conjunction with her department chair to identify a prominent scholar in her area of research who she believes would be a good mentor. After identifying the Eminent Scholar, the chair should email the ISU ADVANCE External Mentoring Program (contact information below) to request funding support. The email should include:
- Name, title, email, and telephone number of ISU faculty member.
- Name, title, university affiliation, email, and telephone number of the Eminent Scholar.
- Estimated date of the Eminent Scholar's visit to ISU.
- Contact information of the department's representative who will coordinate the Eminent Scholar's visit.
Upon ISU ADVANCE funding approval, one invitation letter from the President and Provost will be sent to the Eminent Scholar. The department chair will send a separate letter to the Eminent Scholar explaining the program.
Evaluation
All ISU ADVANCE Scholars must complete a brief annual report form. The faculty member's department chair should sign the report prior to submission to the ISU ADVANCE Office.
Contact Information
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