2025 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Welcome to the 2025 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in Stem Award application which recognizes programs and initiatives that promote inclusive excellence and belonging in STEM schools and programs.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY

Higher Education Accredited Institutions
Business Organizations
Nonprofits

TYPES OF PROGRAMS THAT CAN APPLY
The 2025 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award measures a high-level commitment to recruit and retain underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students for STEM-related majors and provide generous support along their pathways to success. Areas of study include science and research fields, technology, engineering, math fields — and all affiliated fields.

We’re looking for well-designed, evidence-based programs with longevity and the potential to scale up as well as to serve as models for others. Award candidates will also demonstrate superior support systems for students, a long-term commitment to building inclusive excellence and belonging in the workplace, and tangible measures of success.

Examples of award-winning programs include bridge and pathways strategies, recruitment initiatives, mentorships and role model efforts, scholarships, internships and other experiential opportunities, funding enterprises, community projects, corporate and HBCU partnerships, and similarly structured programs.

WHAT WILL THE WINNERS RECEIVE

Free high-resolution downloadable logo to use for marketing, grant applications, fundraising, etc.
Matte press release announcing your honor
Your award-winning program will be profiled in the June 2025 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You can save your incomplete application beginning on the second page of this application by entering your email address at the top of the page. You will then receive a link that will return you to your partially completed application at any time. Please remember to save/print your application for your records before submitting. If you have any questions, please contact Lenore Pearlstein at lenore@insightintodiversity.com.

DEADLINES
The deadline to submit your nomination is March 25, 2025. If your program is selected as an Insight Into Diversity 2025 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award recipient, you will be notified by the middle of April.

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1. Enter the complete name of your institution, non-profit, or company exactly as you would like it to appear in the June 2025 issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine if you are selected as a 2025 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award recipient.

2. If you are an institution of higher education, please include the name of your specific college or school (College of Engineering, College of Information Technology, School of Biomedical Science, etc.) exactly as you would like it to appear in the June issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine if you are selected as an Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winner.

Science
Technology
Engineering
Math

Comments

3. Enter the name of the individual program you are nominating exactly as you would like it to appear in the 2025 June issue of Insight Into Diversity magazine if you are selected as an Inspiring Programs in STEM Award recipient.

4. Tell us about the program you are nominating that encourages female and/or underrepresented students to pursue and succeed in STEM fields. Please include information about the ways in which you recruit and support these students through the program to help them persist to graduation and beyond. This might include bridge or pathway programs, K-12 recruitment, internships and career opportunities, community and corporate partnerships, mentorships, STEM clubs and organizations, etc. Feel free to include a website link to your program along with your response, but not in lieu of.

5. How long has your program been in existence?

6. What results and/or outcomes have you seen in the past 12-24 months from your program? If your program has been in existence less than 12 months, indicate what your goals are.