OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A $1 million grant will go toward addressing gender equity concerns in STEM academics at UW-Oshkosh.
The three-year National Science Foundation grant will be used across UW-Oshkosh’s three campuses, Fond du Lac, Fox Cities and Oshkosh.
The UWO’s NSF ADVANCE grant team will involve creating a web-based dashboard to build awareness and transparency and track progress related to gender inequities among faculty and instructional staff in the STEM disciplines across the campuses.
It’s estimated that 25% of tenured STEM faculty will likely retire from UW-Oshkosh within 10 to 15 years.
“An equitable climate will benefit everyone—faculty, staff and students across all three campuses,” interim University diversity officer and Women’s Center director, Alicia Johnson said. “Our students, particularly historically or structurally excluded students, continuously request a more diverse faculty as one way to increase their belongingness at UWO. The proposed work will be an additional step toward meeting this request given an equitable workplace environment for faculty and instructional staff is both an employee retention and recruitment tool and will enhance capacity to support student success. I believe we will become a more unified University because of the proposed work.”
The project will also create trainings to address work climate issues; conducting an equity review of STEM department tenure, renewal and promotion policies; and assisting departments in creating and revising equitable policies and procedures.
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