"Creating a Positive Departmental Climate at Virginia Tech: A Compendium of Successful Strategies” was created as part of the AdvanceVT Departmental Climate Initiative (DCI). The Department Climate Committee collected policies and practices from a variety of sources to provide department chairs and heads with opportunities to learn about departmental issues at Virginia Tech, to under

The AdvanceVT Department Climate Committee surveyed the heads and chairs from the Colleges of Engineering and Science about successful strategies used to promote department climate. Selected results from the survey, completed in December 2006, are summarized in this presentation.

This large document discusses different department climate components that were implemented at Virginia Tech through their ADVANCE Program. These components include creating a sense of intellectual community, providing a fair and full evaluation, providing effective and supportive communication, providing effective policies, focusing on work-life balance, and supporting materials. This document was presented at the 2008 PI Meeting.

This is a link to the PDF version of the AdvanceVT Department Climate Compendium. The parts of this paper are introduction, about the AdvanceVT departmental climate initiative, and departmental climate components and strategies.