Faculty Initiatives
ADVANCE Grant
The ADVANCE institutional transformation award is a NSF program to support new approaches to improving the climate for women faculty in U.S. academic institutions and to facilitate their advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership. Georgia Tech is one of the eight universities that received a multi-year ADVANCE grant of $3.7 million from NSF. The NSF grant serves as a comprehensive effort to diversify the science and technology workforce. The Institute’s efforts with this grant will serve as models that may be replicated by other institutions throughout the nation.
The Institute plans to pursue new organizational strategies to make access by women to the senior and leadership ranks of university faculties a priority. Tech will use the grant to create four professorships for senior female faculty members. One faculty member from each of the following four colleges will be selected: College of Engineering, College of Sciences, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Computing. The grant will support research pursuits by the four faculty members holding the professorships. The faculty will also be called upon to provide leadership to other women in their academic areas and to develop inter-academic networks.
The grant will also support a wide range of activites including retreats, a workshop for grantees, and mentoring and evaluation training - all aimed at helping women to make advancements in the fields of science and engineering. The grant will also support the collection of information on equity, advancement and family-friendly practices.
College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award
Because the faculty of a university is one of the most important factors in creating an intellectually enriching environment for students and each other, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering recognizes the importance of providing research and teaching development for faculty members. To recognize the efforts of the many faculty members on campus who already mentor other faculty members, and to encourage mentoring among the faculty, the College of Engineering and the SUCCEED Faculty Development Program at Georgia Tech have established the College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award.
The College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes as a team a Georgia Tech mentor and mentee who together have demonstrated an exemplary teaching and/or research mentoring partnership. Both the mentor and mentee must be permanent Georgia Tech employees who are academic faculty. Thus, nominees may be of the same or different ranks, and of the same or different schools. The award will be given annually and will consist of $5,000 to be equally shared between the faculty members to enhance their teaching, research , and/or mentoring activities at Georgia Tech, and $5,000 to the school of the faculty recipients to be utilized to enhance faculty mentoring activities within the school.
Goizueta Foundation Endowment
Georgia Tech established a comprehensive package to support Hispanic students and faculty through permanent scholarship and fellowship endowments using the gift from The Goizueta Foundation, established by the late CEO and chairman of the board of directors of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, Roberto C. Goizueta.
The package created an endowed chair and an endowed professorship, plus support for new undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships – all with preferences for people of Hispanic origin. In addition, the gift will fund a new staff position tasked with overseeing Tech’s efforts to recruit and retain Hispanic students.
Estrada Professorship
The Fred and Teresa Estrada Young Professorship is a five-year term, from fall 1999 through the 2004 academic year. Funding is generously provided by the Estradas in the amount of $30,000 per year for five years. The professorship supports the development of a leading young Hispanic professor at Georgia Tech and encourages innovation, education and research, thereby nurturing the recipient's professional development.