Supported under an NSF ADVANCE Catalyst grant, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers are conducting a comprehensive data gathering effort to assess equity in recruitment, hiring, renewal, promotion, and tenure activities at George Mason University for tenure-track, tenured, and term (contingent) faculty with attention to intersectional analyses. In this work-in-progress submission, we describe a data gathering effort to assess equity in startup packages for STEM faculty by sharing our process for identifying academic discipline faculty to be included in the analysis, data acquisition instrument, stakeholder engagement with the classified staff, administrative faculty, and Deans with access to the data, and preliminary findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]