The VCU National Coordinating Center for Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence (AGIE) is a U24 initiative in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is funded by the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The VCU AGIE Center serves as a centralized hub to optimize the success of gender equity programs, setting a national standard of excellence for advancing diverse women faculty into leadership positions across the science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields.
Our MISSION is to develop an interactive, dynamic, and evidence-based repository to improve access to resources, tools, technologies, expertise, and strategies that address gender-based inequities in the STEMM academic and research workforce. We will use a multi-pronged dissemination strategy to promote the repository to have a broad impact on the success of gender equity programs in the STEMM academic and research workforce nationwide. Additionally, the VCU AGIE features a Pilot and Feasibility Program, enabling research institutions to develop innovative strategies to address gender inequities in the STEMM academic or research workforce.
Under its multidisciplinary leadership, the VCU AGIE, in collaboration with the NIH, promotes and expands this repository across the national stage to make a significant impact on the success of gender equity programs. The AGIE team collects and evaluates data on gender inclusivity and equity strategies that academic institutions across the U.S. have established to build a central, accessible repository that makes it easy for schools and organizations to assess their own performance in advancing women in STEMM and then find tailored, targeted programs to implement. The primary outcome of the VCU AGIE is to set a national standard of excellence for advancing diverse women in faculty and leadership positions across the STEMM fields. By accomplishing this goal, this program will create a functional, validated, and sustainable resource to overcome systemic gender-based inequities impacting the STEMM academic and research workforce.
The VCU AGIE is directed by an interdisciplinary team of experts from the VCU School of Medicine, College of Engineering, School of Education, and Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research and is administratively housed in the VCU Institute for Women’s Health.
For additional inquiries, contact Kellyn Moody (Program Coordinator) at Kellyn.Moody@vcuhealth.org.
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