Mission Possible: Empowering Institutions with Strategies for Change

HOT OFF THE PRESS!  In the most recent AACU Peer Review just released (Spring 2014, Vol. 16, No. 2) our AIM Network colleagues, Jasna Jovanovic and Mary Armstrong, share the results of their ADVANCE PAID grant to explore the impact of ADVANCE grant efforts for women of color.

“As majority women now move forward in STEM fields at a pace exceeding that of women of color, the need to understand this disparity and find successful ways to support URM women in STEM is more urgent than ever.”

Interestingly, Jovanovic and Armstrong state,  “interventions aimed at supporting URM women and increasing diversity in STEM may fail to create institutional spaces where complex, intertwined subordinations can be sufficiently articulated…[and i]nstead, the distinct needs and voices of the very people whose experiences lie at the juncture of multiple identities are effectively erased.”  Read more here:  http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-sp14/Jovanovic.cfm