Since 2019, the National Science Foundation - funded ADVANCE Equity in STEM Community Convening (EiSCC) has served as the convening for NSF ADVANCE grantees in a format that facilitates engagement with change agents within and beyond the NSF ADVANCE community. The 2025 ADVANCE EiSCC brings together a variety of change makers from higher education, professional societies, industry, government, and non-profits in an engaged exchange of knowledge, resources, and support to drive systemic change in STEM.
Attendees have an opportunity to share new research findings and exchange resources; brainstorm strategies; collaborate in novel ways; and demonstrate effective programs and interventions for greater collective impact. We invite all ADVANCE grantees alongside not-yet funded institutions of higher education, professional societies, nonprofits, companies, and more to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in STEM at the 2025 ADVANCE EiSCC.
Funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program, Awards HRD-2121468 and HRD-1740860, the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network seeks to achieve intersectional gender equity for faculty in higher
education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As the STEM equity brain trust, the ARC Network recognizes the achievements made so far while producing new perspectives, methods, and interventions with an intersectional, intentional, and inclusive lens.
The leading champion in North America to propel the inclusion of women in the field of engineering, the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), is the home organization to the ARC Network.