![]() These systemic, time-consuming obligations can in turn frustrate research, networking and leadership opportunities, which are critical to career advancement. Research suggests that under the current system, women faculty bear a disproportionate burden of the service work, such as serving on committees. The grant will seek to address these inequities through a series of measures, including making service requirements more legible and transparent and equitably distributing faculty workloads. ![]() Using data from 2018, researchers found that at the U of A women were roughly 42% of faculty, 18% of tenured faculty, and only 6% of tenured faculty in the STEM fields. UA ENGAGE will target gender and racial equity among faculty by& focusing on valuing and integrating women faculty, while also enhancing efforts to recruit diverse faculty.īroadly, the grant seeks to address the disparities between the number of tenure track men and women faculty, with an emphasis on women of color and STEM fields, where the disparities are increasingly stark. UA ENGAGE has the overarching goal of institutional transformation by adopting policies and practices to support underrepresented groups and mitigate organizational barriers to their success. – The University of Arkansas has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to better recruit and retain women faculty, particularly in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math - collectively known as the STEM fields.įunded by NSF's ADVANCE program, the grant will go to support UA ENGAGE, which stands for Empowering Networked Groups for Arkansas Gender Equity. ![]()
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