ASEE’s KnowlEDGE Initiative (NSF Award No. EES-2204520) is a five-year extension of ASEE’s Engineering Deans Gender Equity (EDGE) Initiative (NSF Award No. EES-1760002).

The goal of KnowlEDGE is to align engineering systems of accreditation, professional societies, and academic colleges and departments, to ensure the inclusive and equitable success of diverse women engineers. Inclusion of diverse women faculty advances engineering disciplinary excellence in a way that a homogenous professoriate cannot.

This program will provide funding and programming to support a select number of Change Teams in their efforts to to increase transparency in promotion and tenure (P&T) within their departments and institutions. Each Change Team will be awarded $20,000 ($10,000 per year for two years), to support self-study, evaluation by a third-party site visit team, and action plan development and implementation.

Eligibility Criteria:
- This program is limited to U.S. institutions.
- Teams must comprise multiple people; individuals intending to be a team of one will not be accepted.
- Applications must include a formal letter of support from your dean.
Departments from all disciplines of engineering are welcome to apply.

The application deadline is Friday, May 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM, ET.
Part I. Applicant Contact Information

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* 1. Contact Information of Team Lead

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* 2. How did you learn about the ASEE KnowlEDGE Initiative?

Part II. Individual and Departmental Motivation

Please consider your own and your department's motivation when responding to Questions #3 & 4. Responses to this set of questions should be between 1 - 3 sentences in length.

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* 3. Why are you interested in establishing a KnowlEDGE Change Team at your institution?

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* 4. What experience do you and/or members of your proposed change team have in planning or executing organizational change that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)?

Part III. Current Departmental State

Please consider the current state of your department when responding to Questions #5 - 8. Responses to this set of questions should be between 3 - 5 sentences in length.

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* 5. In what ways do the current P&T policies and procedures in your department reflect DEI values and efforts?

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* 6. What resources, activities, and support already exist in your department related to integrating DEI into your P&T policies and procedures?

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* 7. In what ways could your departmental P&T policies and procedures better incorporate DEI values and efforts?

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* 8. What challenges or barriers to integrating DEI into your departmental P&T policies and procedures do you face in your department?

Part IV. Proposed Departmental Changes

Please consider your proposed changes within the scope of ASEE's KnowlEDGE Initiative when responding to Questions #9 - 11. Responses to this set of questions should be between 3 - 5 sentences in length.

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* 9. Describe your change proposal. What specific goals and/or action items are you proposing for your department to improve DEI within your P&T process moving forward?

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* 10. Provide a budget justification for how the funds ($10,000 per year) will be spent in support of your change proposal.

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* 11. What additional resources (e.g., leadership support, funding), if any, will be needed to carry out your proposed change(s)?

Part V. Additional Change Team Information and Documentation

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* 12. Please enter the link to your department’s homepage.

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* 13. Who will comprise your proposed Change Team? Please enter their names, job titles, and role on the project, separated by semicolons. You do not need to include yourself in this list, as your information has already been captured in Question #1.

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* 14. Please upload a formal letter of support from your dean in PDF format.

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* 15. Please feel free to add any additional relevant information that you consider important for the success and sustainability of the proposed project. This question does not require a response.

Part VI. Individual Demographics and Institutional Information

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* 16. What is the race/ethnicity of the Team Lead? Please select all that apply.

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* 17. Which of the following most accurately describe(s) the Team Lead? Please select all that apply.

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* 18. What is the highest-level degree offered at your institution?

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* 19. Is your institution private or public?

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* 20. What size (number of students) is your institution?

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* 21. What is the setting of your institution?

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* 22. Which of the following classifications for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) describe your institution? Please select all that apply.

Part VII. Acknowledgement of Additional Required Departmental Data

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* 23. After submission and review of your completed application, the ASEE KnowlEDGE project team may contact all applicants requesting additional departmental demographic data to provide context for the proposed change initiatives and to ensure diverse representation between and across Change Teams.

Specifically, proposed change team leads may be asked to complete this table which prompts information about the composition of the faculty in your department. Please note that for the purposes of this table, the term “faculty” refers to full-time tenure, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track employees. Faculty excludes those in administrative roles. Faculty includes all full-time positions that are focused on research, teaching, or a combination—regardless of rank. Faculty includes temporary roles such as postdoctoral appointments, limited term lecturers, etc.

By signing your full name below, you acknowledge that you will complete the above table upon request to the best of your ability.

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