NDSU Advance FORWARD Initiatives

Campus Climate

Campus Climate initiative focuses on the institution and its leaders by providing educational programs for deans and chairs/heads that enhance their skills to lead the transformation of the campus climate:

• Academic administrator workshops
• Faculty gender equity awareness workshops
• FORWARD Allies/Advocates
• Gender equity award
• Department climate grants
• Climate and gender equity research grants
• Faculty recruitment assistant
• Commission on the Status of Women Faculty

Faculty Advancement & Leadership

The Faculty Advancement and Leadership initiative focuses on the professional development of women faculty through a comprehensive mentoring program, research support, and leadership training opportunities. These professional development components are designed to help women advance in faculty rank from assistant to associate and from associate to full:

• Junior faculty mentoring cohorts program
• Travel grants
• Course release program
• Mid-career peer mentoring program
• Leap research grant program
• Leadership development grants

Research

The Research initiative studies program effectiveness and explores research questions related to:

• How unstructured space become authorized and recognized
• Interventions into climate; allies and administrator training
• Role of critical mass in climate
• Programs to recruit, retain and advance women faculty
• The relationship between gender and producivity
• Mentoring, reverse mentoring

• Funding Opportunities