The University of Delaware's ADVANCE Women’s Leadership program is now accepting applications for the spring 2020 cohort. Sponsored by the UD ADVANCE Institute, in collaboration with the Lerner College Women’s Leadership Initiative, the program addresses potential obstacles to women faculty assuming academic leadership roles. Participants will develop their leadership vision, skills and networks while exploring a broad range of leadership opportunities.

The workshop is geared toward women associate professors; advanced assistant professors or recently promoted professors are also invited to apply.

Feedback from participants in the 2018 cohort was overwhelmingly positive. Faculty valued the leadership skills they learned and the opportunity to build a community of women from across UD. In the words of one participant: “I think my entire mindset and approach to my career has changed...This was an incredibly useful experience!”

The program schedule is divided into two parts:

-- Part I: Afternoon of Friday, March 13 and full-day Saturday, March 14, 2020

-- Part II: Full-day Saturday, May 2, 2020

ADVANCE Women’s Leadership at UD will be led by Amanda Bullough and Wendy Smith, the faculty leaders of the Lerner College Women’s Leadership initiative. The program supports UD ADVANCE’s goal of increasing the number of UD women faculty in leadership positions and aligns with other ADVANCE efforts to empower women faculty on campus.

A brief application is available at udel.edu/advance. The first round of acceptances will occur in early January, with rolling acceptances thereafter. For more information contact Sandy McVey, ADVANCE Program Coordinator, at smilee@udel.edu or 302-831-3028.

For further information, please visit: http://www.udel.edu/advance