Welcome The Georgia Tech (GT) NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program (2001-06) took an integrated approach to institutional factors to support the full participation and advancement of women and to establish a model of best practices in academic science and engineering, constituting the core intellectual merit and broader impacts of the initiative. 1) Creating an inter-college network of termed professorships to promote goals of ADVANCE: ADVANCE Professors Jane Ammons, Mei-Yin Chou, Mary Frank Fox, and Mary Jean Harrold built networks of communication, mentoring, and exchange among female faculty. 2) Institutionalizing a formal training process for committees involved in tenure and promotion: The Promotion and Tenure Advance Committee (PTAC), chaired by David McDowell (ME), surveyed the faculty to examine academic faculty perceptions concerning the promotion and tenure process at Georgia Tech and to explore a range of areas related to faculty development and evaluation. The committee also identified best practices in unit promotion and tenure (P&T) practices and generated a report that was disseminated to all deans and chairs and made available on the ADVANCE web site. The Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure (ADEPT) interactive tool became part of promotion and tenure review process and is now required of all members of promotion and tenure committees. 3) Collecting and using resource-allocation data for equity and development of best practices: Georgia Tech' Institutional Research office collected data for analysis by ADVANCE team members. 4) Holding annual conferences of women faculty, provosts, deans and school chairs to review and refine goals and progress: Four annual GT Conferences and one National Conference (2004) were held. 5) Strengthening and extending the scope and impact of family-friendly practices: The Active Service Modified Duties process, lactation facilities, and the R. Kirk Landon Learning Center helped both male and female faculty balance commitments to family and work and remain part of the infrastructure at Georgia Tech. 6) Defining the problem/issues and developing strategies for advancement, using our ADVANCE research as rich base-line data toward assessment of change: GT NSF ADVANCE Research reports.