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9/1/07 College of Business Class Develops Training System for University

Utah State University undergraduates in Robert Mills’ management information systems development class (College of Business) undertook the daunting challenge of creating a training system to aid university employees in practicing unbiased employee recruitment and hiring practices.

The students’ endeavor bolsters the efforts of USU’s ADVANCE program, which seeks to promote gender equality and increased diversity throughout campus.

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BottomLine (USU College of Business) 9/1/07

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8/30/07  ADVANCE Grant Enters Final Year at USU - Significant Accomplishments Seen

Hiring female faculty members in target areas at Utah State University has risen dramatically as a result of a five-year National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award.

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Utah State Today 8/30/07

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2/21/07   USU Names New College of Science Dean

Utah State University Executive Vice President and Provost Raymond T. Coward announced Wednesday, Feb. 21, the appointment of Mary S. Hubbard as the new dean of the university’s College of Science.

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Utah State Today 2/21/07

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10/19/06   Advancing USU - ADVANCE Program Has New Program Leader

Workplace environment is one of several areas that the ADVANCE program at Utah State University focuses on. The program seeks to foster a workplace environment that increases both faculty effectiveness and gender equity.
   
Trish Kalbas-Schmidt is the ADVANCE program leader at USU, and promoting its mission is her goal. Kalbas-Schmidt joined the program in September and her office is located on the third floor of the Taggart Student Center in the Women’s Center. Kalbas-Schmidt said she has several goals as she works with ADVANCE.

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The Utah Statesman 10/19/06

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9/29/06   New Program Leader of ADVANCE Works to Create Positive Workplace

Trish Kalbas-Schmidt was chosen as the new program leader for USU's ADVANCE, a program designed to create supportive workplace initiatives for faculty members.
   
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds USU's ADVANCE program, one of just 19 institutions nationwide to receive such a grant to promote gender equality and faculty effectiveness. The money given by the NSF is a five-year grant, which USU received in 2003.
  
"We want to create a supportive workplace environment as well as work on gender equality in the STEM colleges, which include Science, technology, Engineering and math," Kalbas-Schmidt said.

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The Utah Statesman 9/29/06
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9/21/06  Leading the Way - A Leadership Workshop Sponsored by ADVANCE

ADVANCE at Utah State University, a project funded by the National Science Foundation, is intended to be a role model for programs to enhance gender equity at universities across the nation. USU’s program is one of only 19 programs nationally to receive grants from NSF. The project aims to improve recruitment, promotion and retention of female scientists and engineers at Utah State University.
   
USU’s program sponsors a leadership workshop Monday, Sept. 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the West and Center Colony rooms of the Taggart Student Center. The workshop focuses on academic leadership and leading a research team. Lunch will be provided. Participants can attend the entire workshop or individual sessions.

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Utah State Today 9/21/06

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9/25/06   Women's Workshop to Focus on Academic Leadership, Research

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9/26/05  Utah State ADVANCE Program Seed Grants Promote Collaborative Research

  As part of the effort to promote collaborative research at Utah State , the ADVANCE-Utah State (ADVANCE-US) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, recently awarded 12 collaborative seed grants for research proposals that had promise for future national funding and involved Utah State female faculty.

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1/12/04  ADVANCE: Supportive Workplace Initiative Will Improve Lay of the Land at Utah State, Say Geology Profs

Jim Evans has a schedule posted on his door. On Tuesdays and Thursdays his schedule reads: "Research, Innovation Campus, Deep Thoughts."
   
People who know Evans understand it's tongue in cheek, and they also know that some Tuesdays or Thursdays the deep thoughts are replaced by caring for a sick daughter, taking her to the doctor—being a parent. According to Evans' spouse, Susanne Janecke, the two geology researchers practice tag-team parenting.
   
Spontaneity has gone out the window, said Evans. "When you have children every evening seminar has to be planned weeks in advance."
   
A new National Science Foundation grant hopes to help faculty like Janecke and Evans. 

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9/22/03   Keeping Women on Track

A problem at Utah State University and at many institutions of higher education across the nation is how to fix the climate in academic institutions so that women faculty not only stay, but thrive.
   

Four researchers at USU recently received $3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help them find a solution. Utah State is one of only 10 schools in the nation to receive money to develop a prototype called the Supportive Workplace Initiative, which will especially focus on attracting and retaining women in the sciences and engineering.

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