Activities that Influence Change
The ADVANCE programs run events and activities that can help promote change to advance women in science and engineering. Information about those events and activities - such as workshops or panels- are posted on their websites they are cataloged here.
| 1 | Balancing Work and Personal Life Workshop, Hunter College Hosted at Hunter Collge for the Gender Equity Project, multiple workshops were held from February - May 2004 on topics such as self-promotion, leadership, and equality. Agendas, activities, and reading materials are listed. |
| 2 | Advance Dean and Department Chair Toolkit, University of Michigan This document is a letter to the deans and department heads at the University of Michigan in Science and Engineering. It presents the results of an assessment that they participated in with a finding that most people at the university were unfamiliar with the available initiatives. |
| 3 | How to Diversify Faculty, American Association of University Professors The AAUP has posted a summary of the role that Affirmative Action can play in hiring diverse faculty. This summary covers the importance of diversity, affirmative action laws, best practices, legal issues, and some additional resources. |
| 4 | Recruiting Women Scientists & Engineers Poster, University of Michigan Presented by the University of Michigan, this poster presents three topics: Understanding their particular problem at the University of Michigan, strategies of intervention they’ve employed, and the progress they’ve made there. |
| 5 | Gender Schema and Science Careers Tutorial, Hunter College Hunter College - City University of New York’s Department of Psychology designed four tutorials titled Gender Schemas and Science Careers. They can be downloaded on this webpage and played with voice over narration. Transcripts and questionnaires are also available. |
| 6 | Department Transformation Grant, University of Washington The University of Washington’s ADVANCE program responded to the need their departments were reporting: funding to create career opportunities and culture change. They created a grant and had departments submit proposals in 2004. |
| 7 | Gender Reports, Kansas State Kansas State is collecting data annual from their science, engineering, and mathematics department heads for the NSF. Some of these include tenure promotion, salary, and space. This page has a complete list of the data indicators. |
| 8 | Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering, Stanford School of Engineering Hosted at Stanford University, “This two day workshop provided a forum on the needs, goals, methods, and best practices for mentoring engineering students interested in an academic career and young faculty beginning such a career.” Workshop structure, goals, and committee can be found on this webpage. |
| 9 | Institutionalizing Transformations, University of Michigan & Virginia Tech This presentation, “Creating Changes that Last: Institutionalizing ADVANCE Transformations”, covers a study done in which interviews were conducted at ADVANCE institutions. The effort was to look at things that have and have not worked, and things that have surprised the participants.
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| 10 | Department Chair Workshops, University of Washington This links to the .pdf of the presentation made by the University of Washington on how effective the workshops for department heads were. The presentation includes information about why these workshops are important, what was effective, and best and worst practices. |
| 11 | Climate Workshops, University of Wisconsin-Madison This links to the .pdf of the presentation made by WISELI on Climate Workshops for Department Chairs. It discusses the importance of focusing on department chairs for creating department wide change and how to focus on them. |
| 12 | ADEPT Description, Georgia Tech ADEPT stands for Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion and Tenure. It “is designed to prepare promotion and tenure candidates and members of faculty evaluation committees”. |
| 13 | Institutional Transformation Program, Georgia Tech From 2001-2006 Georgia Tech has focused their efforts on increasing the advancement of female faculty members. This handout discusses the need and the success. |
| 14 | Stewardship Workgroup, University of Arizona The University of Arizona’s ADVANCE program has put together a Stewardship Workgroup that “will foster responsibility for change within the university based on personal reflection and choice rather than on external pressure mandating behavioral compliance.” Their activities are listed on this webpage. |
| 15 | Department Transformation, University of Illinois at Chicago With WISEST Faculty Focus they are able to make an emphasis on departmental transformation. This webpage covers Faculty Search Committee Training, the WISEST Facilitators, the Call for Action Plans, and the Department Head Workshops. |
| 16 | Searching for Excellence & Diversity- Training for Hiring Committees, University of Wisconsin - Madison Hosted by WISELI, training for hiring diverse faculty and staff is available. It “provides faculty with information, advice, and techniques that will help them run more effective and efficient search committees, diversify their applicant pools, their interviewed candidates, the offers they make, and ultimately the new faculty they hire.” Resources are found at this website. |
| 17 | Climate Workshops for Department Chairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hosted by WISELI, three workshops were held that address the concern of creating a positive and encouraging climate and workplace. Descriptions of each session and the resources used are provided on this website. |
| 18 | Celebrating Women in Science & Engineering Grant Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison To help encourage others at the University of Wisconsin to participate in WISELI, a Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering grant was established. People can apply to this grant to create new workshops, symposia, lecture series, or other event that helps encourage women. Lists of previous awardees, requirements, and the application can be found on this website. |
| 19 | Workshops for Laboratory Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hosted by WISELI, a series of workshops on laboratory management is being designed. These workshops focus on particular issues women might face as laboratory managers. Resources are found at this website. |
| 20 | Sexual Harassment Training Sessions, University of Wisconsin-Madison This webpage covers the information and resources available to those who have been sexually harassed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| 21 | Vilas Life Cycle Professorship Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Vilas Life Cycle Professorships program at WISELI provides research support for professors whose research careers have been impacted by their personal lives. |
| 22 | Faculty Development, CASE CASE has run many faculty development events for faculty, administrators, and department chairs. The most recent of these is the Susan Case Event. |
| 23 | 2004 Case Western Reserve University Provost’s Leadership Retreat, CASE Each year CASE hosts a leadership retreat. In 2004 their retreat was held for the first time with presentations given by people such as CASE’s president, Edward M. Hundert. Speakers, agendas, presentations, and pictures can be found here. |
| 24 | 2005 Case Western Reserve University Provost’s Leadership Retreat, CASE Each year CASE hosts a leadership retreat. In 2005 their retreat was themed: “Things that work”. They keynote speaker was Riane Eisler who is the international bestseller of The Chalice and the Blade. Speakers, agendas, presentations, and pictures can be found here. |
| 25 | 2006 Case Western Reserve University Provost’s Leadership Retreat, CASE Each year CASE hosts a leadership retreat. In 2006 their retreat was titled: “Leading Change: Creating Tomorrow’s University”. The event was expanded from the previous year to include all the departments of the Weatherhead School of Management and all the ARts and Sciences departments. Speakers, agendas, presentations, and pictures can be found here. |
| 26 | 2007 Case Western Reserve University Provost’s Leadership Retreat, CASE Each year CASE hosts a leadership retreat. In 2007 their retreat was titled: “Competing for the Academic Workforce in a Global Environment”. They keynote speaker was Barbara Snyder. Speakers, agendas, presentations, and pictures can be found here. |
| 27 | Energeia 2002: Georgia Tech's NSF ADVANCE Annual Report Magazine, Georgia Tech Each year Georgia Tech posts their annual report in a magazine called Energeia. This is their first magazine and it outlines what they were able to accomplish in the first year: networking opportunities, new work-family processes, an assessment of promotion, and other quantitative and qualitative data collection. |
| 28 | Energeia 2003: Georgia Tech's NSF ADVANCE Annual Report Magazine, Georgia Tech Each year Georgia Tech posts their annual report in a magazine called Energeia. In their second magazine, they discuss the two major initiatives undertaken that year: a survey of male and female faculty on perceived barriers and facilitators, and an assessment of tenure procedures and their inherent biases. |
| 29 | Energeia 2004: Georgia Tech's NSF ADVANCE Annual Report Magazine, Georgia Tech Each year Georgia Tech posts their annual report in a magazine called Energeia. Within this issue topics such as the ADEPT tool development, the hosted conference, and how the program has developed. |
| 30 | Energeia 2005: Georgia Tech's NSF ADVANCE Annual Report Magazine, Georgia Tech Each year Georgia Tech posts their annual report in a magazine called Energeia. This years magazine reports the successes of the past five years and talks about what they hope to accomplish in their remaining time. |
