Overview Presentation

Mary Lynn RealffCo-PI and Project Director

NSF Site VisitJune 8, 2004

GT NSF ADVANCE – taking an integrated approach to institutional factors that will support the full participation and

advancement of women in science and engineering

Networks and Professorships• Women faculty meet in groups frequently• College and inter-college activities bring together

women– Offer encouragement– Establish research collaborations– Communicate more effectively with administration (college

and institute)• Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology

(WST) sponsors activities and partnerships that encourage the full participation of women

• Annual GT Conference

Professor Activities• identifying, prioritizing,

and taking action with the dean and school chairs on key issues within the schools

• addressing across-COE challenges/opportunities

• CoS faculty mentoring program

• Developing CoS promotion/tenure guidelines and faculty resources web site

• Developed programs that implement means to advancement.

• Developed electronic profiles of IAC women faculty and a listserve for women in College

• GT is hub for the National Center for Women and Information Technology for faculty development

• facilitating communication among women faculty, graduate students, and administrators

• Fostered networks of communication, information, mentoring, faculty development activities and exchange.

Best Idea Yet: Collaboratively Set Expectations and Create Solutions

Advantages– People give you better ideas when they know you are going to

implement them– People “buy in” when they have contributed to the solution– Format gives a good balance of “identifying problems” with

generation of “actions”Outcomes

– Faculty and administrators develop solutions together– Group interaction builds networks across campus– Leverage best practices across the entire campus

Implement their recommendations

ConferenceBreakout groups

Identify best practicesIdentify barriers to successMake recommendations

Promotion Tenure Advance Committee (PTAC)

Formed to address the effectiveness of a wide range of faculty development and evaluation issues campus-wide, across all academic disciplines.

Mission as a grassroots faculty-driven effort, PTAC was conceived and charged to:

(1) encompass a broad study of potential forms of bias in faculty development and tenure/promotion evaluations,

(2) look into any conceivable set of issues related to faculty development, mentoring, and evaluation procedures,

(3) develop a methodology to periodically measure faculty perceptions.

• Interactive learning tool• Identification of institute best practices

Awareness ofDecisions in Evaluating Promotion & Tenure

• Scholarship on bias• GT ADVANCE research & surveys• PTAC report & surveys

GT Promotion and Tenure ADVANCE Committee

Significant Accomplishment: ADEPT

Computer Instrument to Reduce Bias in Evaluation

• Fictional P&T case studies• Interactive P&T meeting

Areas of difficulty/resistance• Data Collection

– Collating various databases– Referencing individual personnel files

for data facts– Comparing data difficult

• Not a unique space data clearing house• Offer letter varies among disciplines

• Implementing the family-work policies/procedures– Working with the University System of Georgia– Tailoring implementation to the colleges – Educating the faculty about appropriate use of leave vs.

active-service modified duties.