07/16/2025
We’re Leaving the Porch Light On For You!
As editors of the ADVANCE Journal, we have been stunned and deeply saddened by the onslaught of attacks directed at higher education, science, and women of all races, cultures, and sexual orientations. But, make no mistake. We remain committed to ensuring that the research findings, project outcomes, artistic expressions, lived experiences, and voices of women in the academic STEM disciplines are well-documented in the peer-reviewed literature. Therefore, we’ve made the decision to continue production of the Journal indefinitely.
Although we are still accepting manuscripts, admittedly, our submission-to-publishing timeline over the next few months is likely to be slowed. It is our hope that this in no way discourages you from considering the ADVANCE Journal as a knowledge-generating platform for sharing your scholarly work. However, we understand if circumstances and conditions demand otherwise.
While we work to reconfigure, stabilize, and secure the structures and systems for accepting, reviewing, and publishing scholarly works related to gender equity in STEM, we are also establishing “sister” partnerships with other academic and popular journals and associations with interests similar to those of the ADVANCE Journal, whose publications timelines are faster than ours. Additionally, we are actively and urgently seeking like-minded individuals interested in assisting editors with reviewing and copyediting manuscripts as they are submitted.
We believe that now, perhaps more than ever, higher education needs an ADVANCE Journal. And we are determined to keep this Journal’s porch light on for as long as it takes for change to happen.
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ADVANCE Journal: Individual and Institutional Transformation for Social Justice on Scholastica
Susan Shaw, Editor-in-Chief
Sarina Saturn, PhD, Editor
Kelly Mack, Editor
