NSF Org:	EES Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Initial Amendment Date:	July 22, 2019
Latest Amendment Date:	May 1, 2023
Award Number:	1936125
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Keri Sather-Wagstaff ksatherw@nsf.gov  (703)292-2534 EES  Div. of Equity for Excellence in STEM EDU  Directorate for STEM Education
Start Date:	October 1, 2019
End Date:	September 30, 2024 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$1,000,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$1,000,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2019 = $1,000,000.00
History of Investigator:	Olfa Nasraoui (Principal Investigator) olfa.nasraoui@louisville.edu Tracy Eells (Co-Principal Investigator) Melanie Gast (Co-Principal Investigator) Veronnie Jones (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert Cohn (Co-Principal Investigator) William Byrd (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc 2301 S 3RD ST LOUISVILLE KY  US  40208-1838 (502)852-3788
Sponsor Congressional District:	03
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Louisville 2301 S. Third Street Louisville KY  US  40292-0001
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	03
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	E1KJM4T54MK6
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	ADVANCE
Primary Program Source:	01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	7568
Program Element Code(s):	016Y00
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.076

ABSTRACT

The University of Louisville (UofL) ADVANCE Adaptation project called the Advancement through Healthy Empowerment, Networking, and Awareness (ATHENA) will improve equity for STEM faculty. UofL is a state-supported research university, with a mission to pursue excellence and inclusiveness in research, teaching, and service. The project will lead to the creation of an ATHENA Center for STEM Equity which will enhance UofL's institutional capacity in STEM equity research and will help to sustain the ADVANCE Adaptation project strategies shown to be effective.

The institution has done a self-study to identify equity issues for STEM faculty by gender and have identified promising practices from other ADVANCE grantees. Areas that will be addressed by the ATHENA project include: 1) implicit bias; 2) recruitment and retention; 3) differential time in rank for STEM faculty; and 4) professional isolation. Strategies that will be implemented include: changing the search, recruitment and hiring practices by adapting components from the University of Michigan's Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Increase Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE); creating a mentoring program with an emphasis on improving opportunities for mid-career promotion based on Florida International University's Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP); establishing a program to support the career progress of faculty going through major life events; implementing data collection to support evaluation and monitoring efforts; and educating faculty about gender-by-ethnicity biases that affect the advancement of women in STEM disciplines through theatre based workshops.

The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate. ADVANCE "Adaptation" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institution of higher education as well as non-academic, non-profit organizations.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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