recruiting, retaining, & mentoring women faculty 11/1/02
Post on 21-Jan-2016
216 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
Recruiting, Recruiting, Retaining, Retaining,
& & Mentoring Mentoring
Women Women FacultyFaculty11/1/0211/1/02
Who Teaches Who Teaches MattersMatters
“The most accurate predictor of subsequent success for female undergraduates is the percentage of women among faculty members at their college.”
Trowers and Chait; Harvard Magazine, 104:33, 2002.
Representation of Women Representation of Women inin
Graduate Professional Graduate Professional ProgramsPrograms
05
101520253035404550
% W
omen
Law SchoolMedical SchoolEngineering
Spectrum of Spectrum of ApproachesApproaches
Negative Neutral Supportive Pro-Active
OutlinOutlinee
History of UT EFWOReview Objective DataDiscussion:
– Set Measurable Goals– Process to Achieve Goals– Resources to Achieve Goals
UT UT EFWOEFWO http://www.engr.utexas.edu/bme
/faculty/richards-kortum/WomenInEng/
Child Care Survey & Report– Summer 01
Career Success Workshop– April 02
White Paper– Fall 02
White Paper: Areas of White Paper: Areas of ConcernConcern Attract & retain more women faculty
Improve recruitment and retention of women graduate students at UT
Provide mentoring for women graduate students & faculty
Increase # of women in leadership positions at UT
Focus of tonight’s Focus of tonight’s discussiondiscussion
Attract more women faculty
Where are Where are we?we?2002: 240 total tenure track faculty
– 21 women (9%)• 7 Assistant Professors• 7 Associate Professors• 7 Full Professors
– 219 men (91%)• 40 Assistant Professors• 34 Associate Professors• 145 Full Professors
How has this How has this changed?changed?# of Female UT CoE Faculty
2121
8
0
5
10
15
20
251
98
6
19
88
19
90
19
92
19
94
19
96
19
98
20
00
20
02
= Target of Opportunity Years
College of Engineering
02468
1012141618
86-'87
87-'88
88-'89
89-'90
90-'91
91-'92
92-'93
93-'94
94-'95
95-'96
96-'97
97-'98
98-'99
99-'00
00-'01
01-'02
02-'03
Year
Tota
l # o
f Fac
ulty
Hire
d
= Target of Opportunity Years
How do we compare to our How do we compare to our peers?peers?
College of Engineering
0
10
20
30
40
50
MIT
Stanfo
rd
Berke
ley
Georg
ia Tec
h
Illinois
Mich
igan
CalTech
Cornell
USCCM
U
UT-Austi
n
Purdue
Texas
A&M
% W
om
en F
acu
lty
2001 ASEE Data
% Women Faculty by % Women Faculty by Dept.Dept.
Aerospace
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
MIT
Sta
nfor
d
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Illin
ois-
Urb
ana-
Mic
higa
n
Cal
Tec
h
UT
-Aus
tin
Pur
due
Tex
as A
&M
% W
om
en
BME
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
MIT
Ber
kele
y
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Mic
higa
n
Cor
nell
US
C
CM
U
UT
-A
ustin
Pur
due
Tex
asA
&M
% W
om
en
Chemical Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
MIT
Sta
nfor
d
Ber
kele
y
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Illin
ois-
Urb
ana-
Mic
higa
n
Cal
Tec
h
Cor
nell
US
C
CM
U
UT
-Aus
tin
Pur
due
Tex
as A
&M
% W
om
en
2001 ASEE Data
% Women Faculty by % Women Faculty by Dept.Dept.
Electrical Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
MIT
Sta
nfor
d
Ber
kele
y
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Illin
ois-
Urb
ana-
Mic
higa
n
Cal
Tec
h
Cor
nell
US
C
CM
U
UT
-Aus
tin
Pur
due
Tex
as A
&M
% W
om
en
Mechanical Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
MIT
Sta
nfor
d
Ber
kele
y
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Illin
ois-
Urb
ana-
Mic
higa
n
Cal
Tec
h
Cor
nell
US
C
CM
U
UT
-Aus
tin
Pur
due
Tex
as A
&M
% W
om
en
Civil Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
MIT
Sta
nfor
d
Ber
kele
y
Geo
rgia
Tec
h
Illin
ois-
Urb
ana-
Mic
higa
n
Cal
Tec
h
Cor
nell
US
C
CM
U
UT
-Aus
tin
Pur
due
Tex
as A
&M
% W
om
en
2001 ASEE Data
Are there qualified Are there qualified candidates?candidates?
UT College of Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
BS Degree MS Degree PhD Degree Total Faculty
% W
om
en
2001 ASEE Data
Do they apply to Do they apply to UT?UT?% of Peer School PhD's Awarded to Females ('98-'01) vs.
% of Female Applicants for UT CoE Faculty Positions ('94-'01)
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
ASEChE CE
ECEM
EPE*
OVERALL
Peer School Female PhD's
Female Faculty Applicants
Why did our current Why did our current women women
faculty apply?faculty apply?
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Contacted byUT Faculty
Responded toAd
AdvisorEncourgaged
Spousal Hire Unknown
Nu
mb
er o
f F
acu
lty
What should What should we do?we do?
GoalsAction ItemsResources
GoaGoalsls
Double the number of women faculty in five years– To reach this goal, we only need to
add 4 women faculty per year in the next five years
– Currently recruiting 14 positions
Actions: Spectrum of Actions: Spectrum of ApproachesApproaches
Negative Neutral Supportive Pro-Active
What PROACTIVE recruitment approaches are needed to DOUBLE the number of
FEMALE FACULTY?
Attract women Attract women facultyfaculty Monitor numbers/report progress
Incentives:– Targeted slots– Targeted recruiting $$
Share ‘best practices’ amongst recruiting committees
Evaluate interview process– Positive impression?– Work/family balance– Teaching/research balance
Retain women Retain women facultyfacultyMonitor numbers
Assess departmental climatesCritical massMentoring programCareer Success workshop
Mentor our Women PhD Mentor our Women PhD StudentsStudentsFaculty driven mentoring
activities for graduate students– F6: First Friday Forum for Future
Female Faculty
Women in leadership Women in leadership positionspositions
Monitor numbersRecruit externally
Target of Opportunity Target of Opportunity ProgramProgram 1987-1997
– 5th Circuit Opinion in Messer v. Meno– Racial preferences in hiring solely to achieve diversity are
unconstitutional.
Focus: black & Hispanic faculty– 50 minority faculty hired
During same time: – Provost provided 25 new eng. faculty lines– A fraction of these funds were allocated to recruit women
faculty
Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Postgraduate Plans 1995 Chemistry PhDs
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Post Doc AcademicEmployment
IndustrialEmployment
Per
cen
tag
e
Men
Women
NSF DataCourtesy: V. Kuck
Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Postgraduate Plans 1995 Physics PhDs
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Post Doc AcademicEmployment
IndustrialEmployment
Per
cen
tag
e
Men
Women
NSF DataCourtesy: V. Kuck
Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Percent of Full Time Academic Engineers Who Are Women by Carnegie Type of Institution, 1995
02468
101214
Per
cen
tag
e
From Scarcity to VisibilityNational Academy Press
Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Comparison of Academic Employment
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
PhDGranting
MS Granting BA/BSGranting
2 yr Schools
Per
cen
tag
e
Physics
Chemistry
NSF DataCourtesy: V. Kuck
top related