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
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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
- The National Academies' Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering and the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy published this study and recommendations in 2006.
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Ford Foundation Diversity Fellows
- These predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships are awarded yearly.
National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program
- The ADVANCE Program works to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.
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ADVANCE Awards
- Fellows Awards
- Institutional Transformation Awards
- Leadership Awards
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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.
- Observations on hiring women faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, by Nancy Hopkins from the Diversification of a University Faculty: Observations on Hiring Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT (March/April 2006).
- Overview of Reports from the Schools of Architecture and Planning; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Sloan School of Management.
- A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011.
- MIT Mentoring Booklet.
- MIT Report on The Initiative for Faculty Race and Diversity.
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
- Office of Faculty Affairs
- Penn Facts
- Progress Report on Gender Equity
- Penn's Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence
Yale University
Public Institutions
Hunter College at the City University of New York
University of California at Berkeley
- Office for Faculty Equity &Welfare
- Office of Planning & Analysis
- Faculty Family Friendly Edge
- President's Summit on Faculty Gender Equity
University of Michigan
- Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office
- Office of Budget & Planning - Facts & Figures
- Assessing the Academic Work Environment for Science and Engineering and Social Science Faculty at the University of Michigan in 2006: Gender, Race, and Discipline in Department ‐ and University ‐ Related Climate Factors
- Gender Salary Study (2007)
- University of Michigan reports and update
- Report of the Faculty Mentoring Study