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Four universities partner to increase women faculty in STEM fields
Wright State University, the University of Dayton, Central State University and the Air Force Institute for Technology on Monday, Nov. 10, will launch a consortium to improve the Dayton-area climate for women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
The four-university partnership will work in the next five years to create a sustainable woman-friendly STEM community for attracting the best faculty to the region.
Wright State, UD, Central State and AFIT will share a $2.86 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to increase the number of women faculty in the STEM areas and in related industries in the region.
The four institutions have created a consortium for the effort, called Launching Equity in the Academy across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region (LEADER). The consortium will be led by Michele Wheatly, dean of Wright State’s Collee of Science and Mathematics.
The LEADER Consortium will launch Monday, Nov. 10, at a public event at 3:30 p.m. at the Wright Brothers Aviation Center, Carillion Park in Dayton.
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