recruiting, retaining, & mentoring women faculty 11/1/02
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Recruiting, Recruiting, Retaining, Retaining,
& & Mentoring Mentoring
Women Women FacultyFaculty11/1/0211/1/02
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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.
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Representation of Women Representation of Women inin
Graduate Professional Graduate Professional ProgramsPrograms
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101520253035404550
% W
omen
Law SchoolMedical SchoolEngineering
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Spectrum of Spectrum of ApproachesApproaches
Negative Neutral Supportive Pro-Active
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OutlinOutlinee
History of UT EFWOReview Objective DataDiscussion:
– Set Measurable Goals– Process to Achieve Goals– Resources to Achieve Goals
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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
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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
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Focus of tonight’s Focus of tonight’s discussiondiscussion
Attract more women faculty
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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
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How has this How has this changed?changed?# of Female UT CoE Faculty
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= Target of Opportunity Years
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College of Engineering
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How do we compare to our How do we compare to our peers?peers?
College of Engineering
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2001 ASEE Data
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% Women Faculty by % Women Faculty by Dept.Dept.
Aerospace
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BME
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MIT
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Chemical Engineering
0.0
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% Women Faculty by % Women Faculty by Dept.Dept.
Electrical Engineering
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
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Mechanical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Are there qualified Are there qualified candidates?candidates?
UT College of Engineering
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BS Degree MS Degree PhD Degree Total Faculty
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2001 ASEE Data
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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)
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10%
15%
20%
25%
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Peer School Female PhD's
Female Faculty Applicants
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Why did our current Why did our current women women
faculty apply?faculty apply?
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What should What should we do?we do?
GoalsAction ItemsResources
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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
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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?
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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
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Retain women Retain women facultyfacultyMonitor numbers
Assess departmental climatesCritical massMentoring programCareer Success workshop
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Mentor our Women PhD Mentor our Women PhD StudentsStudentsFaculty driven mentoring
activities for graduate students– F6: First Friday Forum for Future
Female Faculty
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Women in leadership Women in leadership positionspositions
Monitor numbersRecruit externally
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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
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Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Postgraduate Plans 1995 Chemistry PhDs
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Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
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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
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From Scarcity to VisibilityNational Academy Press
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Where do the Where do the women go?women go?
Comparison of Academic Employment
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