Welcome

The Women’s Faculty Cabinet, with support from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost and the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, works to provide leadership to improve and enrich the academic and professional environments for women faculty at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

Membership:

The Women’s Faculty Cabinet consists of 13 faculty members chosen from among tenured/tenure track women faculty to represent the diversity and range of disciplines of women faculty at the University. The Director of the Office for University Women serves as an ex-officio member of the Cabinet. Each year the Provost’s Office will send out a call for nominations. Members may be nominated by deans, directors, and department heads as well as by faculty members of the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (including through self-nomination).

ADVANCE Programs

University of California, Irvine's "UCI ADVANCE Program", The Program promotes institutional transformation toward gender equity by increasing the representation and advancement of women faculty across entire campus. Link to the UCI Advance Program

U of Wisconsin ADVANCE information: WISELI Overview (ppt), WISELI Overview 2 (ppt)

U of Michigan ADVANCE information: Stride 2003 (ppt), Stride 2006 (ppt), Toolkit (pdf)

U of Minnesota NSF ADVANCE grant proposal (pdf)