Faculty Advancement Network

Working with peers to increase diversity in the academy

The University recognizes that our commitment to a diverse professoriate cannot be limited to the faculty of the University of Chicago alone, but must instead look outward to the academy as a whole. Administrative leaders from the Ivy League and other leading research universities created the Faculty Advancement Network to increase diversity of thought, perspective, and identity in the American academy.

The Ivy+ FAN Institutes

Since 2022, FAN has organized a yearlong program for campus teams of Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellows seleted from the most competitive research universities in the United States. Fellows meet virtually and in-person to interrogate how systems and strategies shape the academic profession and to understand the difference faculty can make in reshaping it. In addition to learning how to take local action, Fellows conclude the Institute by designing and proposing multi-university initiatives to a panel of subject matter experts and foundation leaders.

Below are University of Chicago faculty who have participated in the Ivy+ FAN Institutes since 2022.