Recruitment,Recruitment,Selection and HiringSelection and Hiring

• Create Faculty Horizons - 2 day success workshop for post doctoral fellows and senior graduate students.

• Bring back Meyerhoff graduates and other successful women alumnae.• Send Faculty Liaisons to select meetings to recruit.• Commit research assistantship (RA) funds to chairs to aid in recruitment of new female faculty.

Recruitment: Increasing the pool of highly qualified applicantsRecruitment: Increasing the pool of highly qualified applicants

Selection and Hiring: Setting challenging yet attainable goalsSelection and Hiring: Setting challenging yet attainable goals• Develop Diversity Plans for departments and individual searches.• Establish diversity as a priority and evaluate progress.

o Faculty Horizons Program will be held August 5-7, 2004.o New STEM faculty searches:

• STEM department searches 7• Candidates interviewed 46• Women candidates 15• 1st offer to women 5

o Note: 2 Departments offered additional faculty positions to women.o Committed 2 ADVANCE RA positions to newly hired STEM faculty.

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• Evaluate and document service workload.• Support efforts of STEM faculty contributing to service and advancement of women with

funded research assistantships (8 per year in years 2-5).• Involve the RA’s and faculty mentors in ADVANCE activities.

Evaluate and address workload inequityEvaluate and address workload inequity

Establish and disseminate clear tenure and promotion guidelinesEstablish and disseminate clear tenure and promotion guidelines• Develop Individual Faculty Development Plans for all female STEM faculty.• Create Faculty Sponsorship Committee to evaluate progress of faculty toward goals of development plan.• Formalize workshops and mentoring on P & T process and timeline.

o Climate and Work Life Survey distributed to all STEM faculty, Climate and Work Life Survey distributed to all STEM faculty, 25% return thus far.25% return thus far.o ADVANCE RA Program information disseminated to all STEM ADVANCE RA Program information disseminated to all STEM faculty, awarded by June.faculty, awarded by June. o September 2004, ADVANCE Promotion and Tenure workshop for September 2004, ADVANCE Promotion and Tenure workshop for all STEM faculty.all STEM faculty.

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• Build on and formalize WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) model of collegial mentoring.• Establish Eminent Scholar Mentor Program - pair faculty with leader in field, bring to campus,

send faculty to mentor’s campus, sustain contact through career.• Expand Distinguished Speakers Program - highlight successes, possibilities, challenges and

strategies.

Provide formal mentoringProvide formal mentoring

Create new pathwayCreate new pathway• Create new tenure track option for outstanding instructors engaged in funded research on

science or engineering education modeled after other successful universities.

o MENG women instructor promoted to full tenure track faculty position based on service, MENG women instructor promoted to full tenure track faculty position based on service, teaching and funded research on education.teaching and funded research on education.

o Collaborate with WISE to formalize mentoring and career workshops.Collaborate with WISE to formalize mentoring and career workshops.

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• Explore additional options to support women in pregnancy, birth, adoption and other family responsibilities.

• Work with chairs and deans to identify and institutionalize options.

Provide support at critical pointsProvide support at critical points

Provide opportunity for leadership developmentProvide opportunity for leadership development• Presidential Administrative Fellows Program - 1 full professor per year, being trained in

the President’s, Provost’s, Dean’s, Budget and Graduate School offices.• Associate Chair Program - work with Chairs to develop.• External leadership programs - encourage and support faculty to participate in HERS,

serve as NSF Program Directors, etc.

o Identify and contact women STEM faculty eligible for leadership development.Identify and contact women STEM faculty eligible for leadership development.o Disseminate information through meetings.Disseminate information through meetings.

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