Diversity at Peer Institutions

Resources across Multiple Institutions

The Leadership Alliance

  • The Leadership Alliance is an academic consortium of 33 institutions of higher learning, including leading research universities and teaching colleges.
  • The mission of the Leadership Alliance is to develop underrepresented students into outstanding leaders and role models in academia, business, and the public sector.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program 

  • The ADVANCE Program works to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.
  • ADVANCE Awards
    • Fellows Awards
    • Institutional Transformation Awards
    • Leadership Awards
  • ADVANCE Web Portal
    • Collects information from school partners on campus equity in recruitment and retention, as well as institutional planning and culture.

American Association of University Professors

  • The Diversity Bibliography includes research, reviews, AAUP resolutions, and commentary on faculty diversity.

Private Institutions

Brown University

California Institute of Technology

Columbia University

Cornell University

Provost Martin briefed the faculty senate on gender equity and the faculty salary program in 2001, reporting no significant differences in pay by gender in any colleges.

Dartmouth College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT has several "Reports of the Committees on the Status of Women" from the different schools within, as well as its most recent (2006) report by Nancy Hopkins on Diversification of University Faculty.

Princeton University

Princeton has a 2005 report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences which parallels their earlier 2003 report to the President on Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering.

Stanford University

Stanford's website hosts "University Women", a project of the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Faculty. This website has a number of data-rich reports from its own process as well as those at peer institutions.

University of Pennsylvania

Yale University

Public Institutions