ASEE Engineering Deans Gender Equity (EDGE) Initiative

The issue of diversity is critical for ASEE and our members, and reflects ASEE’s core values. ASEE recognizes that to optimize innovation and global competitiveness, the engineering community must actively encourage, support, engage, and advance a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. Currently barriers exist to full engagement in engineering by underrepresented groups such as women, especially women of color. ASEE's Engineering Deans Gender Equity (EDGE) Initiative, a 3-year program funded through a 2018 National Science Foundation ADVANCE Adaptation award (# 1760002), provides tools, strategies, and resources to support academic engineering deans in identifying and removing barriers impeding recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty from all backgrounds in engineering higher education. LEARN MORE....

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Action Steps: University Leaders on Advancing Gender Equity, Wednesday May 26, 4pm EDT. Click to register!
Watch the recording! Mitigating the Gendered Impact of COVID-19 on Tenure-Line Faculty May 13 4pm EDT - Click for more information
The EDGE initiative is pleased to announce that it is providing up to ten (10) $2,500 sponsorships to women engineering faculty from Engineering Deans Pledge signatory institutions and ASEE Member Institutions who are admitted to the NSF-funded IAspire Leadership Academy. Click to learn more!
Dean Focus Group Report - Now Available!
Participants at the EDGE Action Steps Workshop Wednesday, April 10, 2019 San Antonio, Texas
Deans Panel Discussion on the COVID-19 Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Click image to view the recap!