WISELI’s series of Climate Workshops for Department Chairs are the culmination of efforts by many faculty and staff at UW-Madison during the past three years. In the original proposal to the NSF, these workshops were proposed as the following: UW-Madison has a successful workshop series on leadership designed for department chairs. In the series, chairs meet weekly with presenters who each

This links to the PDF of the presentation made by WISELI on Climate Workshops for Department Chairs. It discusses the importance of focusing on department chairs for creating department wide change and how to focus on them. This presentation was given at the 2006 PI Meeting.

PACE seeks to increase access to relevant resources and advisors for indigenous women in science through several initiatives.

At the Fall 2005 Faculty Recruitment Workshops, four scenarios were discussed during scheduled breakout sessions. The purpose of these scenarios was to generate discussion and suggestions about potential recruitment challenges. The following document has been developed to share the helpful suggestions from these sessions.

On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, ADVANCE hosted "Keys to Succesful Project Management- a Faculty Workshop".

The IMPACT SEMINAR is a year-long program designed to increase participants' effectiveness by developing new ways of integrating teaching, research, and service for a coherent career, and building leadership skills.

Hosted at Stanford University, “This two day workshop provided a forum on the needs, goals, methods, and best practices for mentoring engineering students interested in an academic career and young faculty beginning such a career.” Workshop structure, goals, and committee can be found on this webpage.

Because the search process plays a critical role in shaping our faculty and staff for years to come and provides the best opportunity for diversifying our workforce, it is important that we implement effective and efficient recruiting practices and address important contemporary issues of excellence and diversity.

This document is a one-page agenda for a workshop on the topic of teaching and working effectively. The titles of the events are administration, break-out groups, discussion, and workshop evaluation.

In 2007, the Provost's Office, AdvanceVT, and the Organization of Women Faculty hosted a peer mentoring workshop designed for assistant professors and intended to develop a peer support network at Virginia Tech.

This document is an instrument used to evaluate a workshop on principle investigators who are running a lab.

Women don’t ask. That’s the title of a recent book on negotiation and the gender divide (Babcock and Laschever, 2003), as well as the theme of a recent workshop sponsored by the Earth Institute ADVANCE Program at Columbia University. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Program seeks to transform the way in which women scientists and engineers are recruited, retained, and promoted in academic institutions.

This document is a detailed agenda for junior faculty. Example sessions include departmental governance, negotiating authorship, and student and assistantship management.

This worksheet is from a negotiation workshop. It lists different ways to handle conflict. For each one the approach, objective, posture, rationale, and outcome is listed.

At the 2006 Faculty Recruitment Workshops, four scenarios were discussed during scheduled breakout sessions. The purpose of these scenarios was to generate discussion and suggestions about potential recruitment challenges. The following document has been developed to share the helpful suggestions from these sessions.

The following report was written to provide feedback about the pilot sessions of the Department Chair Climate Workshops created by the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI). These comments reflect my observations of the workshops, my interactions with the Chairs when deploying the surveys, and the participants’ feedback about the experience.

This document is a handout from a mini-workshop with a reading list, pre-workshop activities, and references.

Are you a women scientist or engineer with your Ph.D. who is currently working in consulting, industry, or a national/research laboratory and is curious about a future career in academia? Are you wondering about how to make that transition? The On-Ramps into Academia workshop might be just for you.

Hosted by WISELI, three workshops were held that address the concern of creating a positive and encouraging climate and workplace. Descriptions of each session and the resources used are provided on this website.

This document is a list of thirteen tips on how to become a prolific writer.

This webpage is a description of talking circles and workshops related to those talking circles.

The Op-Ed Project is an initiative to expand public debate, with an immediate focus on dramatically increasing the number of women in thought leadership positions. Since women currently do not submit op-eds with anywhere near the frequency that men do, Op-Ed targets and trains women experts at top universities, think tanks, nonprofits, corporations and community organizations across the nation to write for the opinion pages of major newspapers, online sites and other key forums of public discourse which fee

These workshops, designed for academic deans and chairs/heads at NDSU, consist of half-day session on issues of gender awareness and a half-day session on the Training Our Campuses Against Racism (TOCAR) program. These workshops are designed and provided for all academic administrators.

This document is a one page agenda for a workshop on successfully attending conferences. The events of the workshop are titled lunch and introductions, presentations, discussion, and evaluation.

This poster from the 2009 PI Meeting has sections titled "Premise" and "Partner's Needed". Example premises are, "The FORWARD to Professorship Workshop has informed and networked over 350 women in STEM academia from 2003‐2008" and "The workshop has been adapted to the MIT community and has been running annually since 2005 there.

This webpage describes workshops offered, including one on writing and one on navigating the NIH system.

This website is a list of workshops and events, including a professional development workshop series and promotion workshops.

This document is a handout for a workshop on self-promotion. The sections of this document divided into two activities on the topic.

This all-day, “train-the trainers” style workshop is designed to help universities, university systems, and/or regional collectives develop and present their own search workshops on their campuses.

This form for candidates to provide the details about upcoming department seminars aimed at demonstrating his/her proficiency in leading a class in a subject of his/her choosing.

This document is more detailed description of the activities described in the agenda.

The following faculty development workshops consist of both existing programs supported by the university (e.g., effective teaching workshop and grant-writing workshop) as well as workshops designed to address the goals of ADVANCE.

This document is an agenda for a workshop that is on the topic of tenure and professional development

FORWARD Advocates are tenured faculty men who have a proven record of supporting faculty women in their department, colleges, and the university. Advocates are expected to be active and effective proponents of gender diversity and equality specifically in terms of increasing the number of female faculty, encouraging the hiring and promotion of female faculty in administrative positions, and ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of women within their NDSU units.

A key focus of the University of Washington ADVANCE CIC is leadership development. Through half-day quarterly ADVANCE Leadership workshops, department chairs, deans, and other faculty are offered professional development workshops to help them become more effective leaders.

This document is an agenda for a workshop on how to find equity with domestic partners. Session titles include program administration, marital equity, and role play with discussion.

The workshop and this report lay the groundwork for a research agenda to examine reforms targeting the development of interdisciplinarity as well as those seeking to attract women and minorities. The goal is to better understand and improve the effects of these efforts, particularly where they intersect.

Links to the CITE DVD

This webpage hosts information about a series of workshops. This link takes you to a sub-part of the webpage on a workshop entitled “Marital Equality”. Links to its agenda and workshop activities and discussion questions are provided.

This document is an agenda with activities such as group discussion, different types of mentors and mentoring, and best practices.

Participate in the Workshop Series for Junior Faculty for natural and social scientists at CUNY. As part of a newly awarded NSF grant to Hunter College and CUNY, the Gender Equity Project is offering a series of 3 day-long workshops to develop male and female junior faculty who are engaged in basic science and engineering at participating CUNY schools.

This webpage is a list of workshops with descriptions that have been funded by the SEEDs program. An example is a day-long career development course on writing.

Pfirman, S. and D. Rhoten, Interdisciplinarity, Diversity and the Academic and Research Enterprises. Report from the workshop: Women, Minorities and Interdisciplinarity: Transforming the Research Enterprise, November 12-13, 2007.

Purpose of workshops: To help departments conduct fair inclusive, and effective searches, consistent with university and department goals

This document is an instrument used to evaluate a workshop on department climates.

The ADVANCEing Faculty Career Development Workshops are offered up to three times per academic year and focus on topics such as: communication; negotiation; ...

As part of UA ADVANCE’s efforts to encourage and highlight interdisciplinary research, each year we sponsor two Data Blitz seminars

2008 WEPAN paper on the Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position workshop. "The under-representation of women and U.S. ethnic minorities in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM) is a well established fact. There are numerous studies that disclose reasons for this under-representation at all steps along the academic process.

Information on workshops at UW-Madison and other universities, and resources for training hiring committees, are listed on this webpage. “Hiring and retaining an excellent and diverse faculty is a top priority for colleges and universities nationwide, yet faculty hiring committees typically receive little education about the search process. Consequently, WISELI has implemented a workshop, Searching for Excellence and Diversity®, that provides faculty with information, advice, and techniques that will help t

The 2008 Faculty Career Success Workshop provided a learning time for junior faculty to network with colleagues from Rice and from peer schools and learn about strategies for professional, academic success.

This document is a handout for a workshop on the topic of giving presentation. Sections of this paper include readings, activities, and references.

This four-hour workshop is designed for faculty and staff members who are or will be serving on search committees on your campus. During this workshop, we will present the content of the search workshops we have developed and implemented on the UW-Madison campus.

CU-ADVANCE's training DVD on Academic Interviewing includes three scenarios of on-campus faculty interview interactions. Together with a senior HR consultant, the Center developed a workshop that stimulates a discussion about the behaviors, perspectives, assumptions and biases of search committee members and faculty in these scenarios; they highlight the possible impacts on the candidate, department, and institution. Issues addresed are related to procedures and policies, legal boundaries, and department an

This document is an handout for a workshop on how to find equity with domestic partners. Sections of this paper include a reading list, discussion, scenarios, and take home exercises.

The Leadership, Communities, and Values Initiative (LCVI) and the UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change joined forces in 2006 to design and offer leadership workshops for deans, associate deans, department chairs and emerging leaders. The workshops began during the 2006-2007 academic year and continue to be offered this year. These workshops will be modeled after ADVANCE's successful quarterly leadership workshops for department chairs and deans in science, engineering, and mathematics.

Negotiation and communication skills are vital for working with others in the department and colleagues elsewhere and obtaining a fair share of departmental and granting agency resources.

Purpose of Workshop: To increase awareness of the importance of creating and maintaining an excellent academic work environment for everyone and women scientists in particular.

LEAD is a series of national leadership workshops, offered annually, for department chairs, deans and emerging leaders in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM), which address departmental and university culture and the professional development of faculty.

This document is a handout for a workshop on the topic of time management. The sections of this paper are handouts, readings, discussion, activities, take home exercises, and references.

Do you want to improve departmental climate on your campus, especially for women and minority faculty, but do not know where to start? Are you frustrated when, despite your efforts to improve campus climate, yet another faculty member leaves your institution due to “climate issues” at the department level?

This lunchtime workshop featured presentations and comments by Candace Oviatt, Professor of Oceanography, Art Gold, Professor of Natural Resources Science, and Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, Professor and Chair of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering.

This webpage is a list of materials by workshop name. Example workshops are Balancing Work and Personal Life and Capitalizing Gains and Maximizing Progress During the Summer.

A summary of the LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) project at the University of Colorado is presented in this document for the 2005 ADVANCE PI Meeting in Panel 5. They have set up workshops with stipends to “develop the skill sets of faculty members and promote best practices... This stipend is a clear incentive for junior faculty who also like the fact that we market the workshops as a ways to get off to a fast and successful start and have an application/selection procedure.”

This document is a handout for a workshop on the topic of teaching and working effectively. The sections of this paper include readings, activities, discussion, and references.

On Friday, October 17, 2008, ADVANCE sponsored a Faculty Mentor Lunch Workshop at the UClub. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels Professor and Chair, Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering and Barb Silver, Director of the ADVANCE Program, facilitated the workshop. About 20 of us enjoyed lunch...

This document is a list of available workshops for teaching

This document is a one-page agenda for a workshop on self-promotion. The titles of the sub-events are program administration, self-promotion and building a national reputation, reporting back to the main group, break into groups, and workshop evaluation.

On Friday, December 2, 2005, the ADVANCE Program sponsored a pilot Mentor Training workshop for faculty. The target audience was science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) junior faculty, their mentors, and chairs in all STEM departments...

This handout is a material provided at a workshop on balancing work and life. The sections of the handout are a reading list, discussion questions, activities, and some take home exercises.

This document is an agenda for a workshop on the topic of promotion and tenure. The titles of the events include lunch, presentation, questions and answer sessions, evaluation.

This webpage is a list of workshops from 2006 and 2005. An example is one on Securing Funding.

This document is divided into the regions of reasons and tips

Negotiation is a critical skill in the university - it is one of the ways the system works. When a woman fails to negotiate for what she needs to be successful, the potential for accumulation of disadvantage magnifies.

This document is a list of workshops. Examples include: "ADVANCE Offers Workshop on Regulations and Policy to Consider When Writing Your Proposal" and "ADVANCE Offers Workshop on How to Write a Successful Proposal at UPR-Humacao".

This document is a handout for an event on writing and publishing as a faculty woman. Sections of this paper are handouts, readings, discussion, take home exercises, and references.

This document is a reading list for a workshop on Leadership Development.

This document is a detailed agenda for junior faculty. Example sessions include diversity of academia, circles of advisors, and time management.

This webpage has links to materials and information about the different sessions from this workshop on Laboratory Management.

This webpage is a list of workshops that for grantwriters on the topics of "The Twelve Keys to Successful Grant Writing", "The Ins and Outs of Federal Funding", and more.

This document is a one page agenda of a workshop having sessions about balancing work and life with break-out sessions.

This document is an agenda with activities like NSF site visit, developing your circle of advisors, and sponsorship program component evaluation.

This document is a one page agenda for activities related to evaluation. Activities include a balance survey, group discussion, and break-out groups.

The goal of these workshops is to provide chairs with information and skills that will have a positive effect on faculty development and departmental climate, facilitate communication between chairs to share experiences and best practices, and to integrate the broader goals of the ADVANCE Program by weaving information and discussion about issues of diversity and gender to improve the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women faculty.

This document is a handout for a workshop on the topic of promotion and tenure. The sections of the paper are readings, activities, presentations, post-workshop activities, and references.

Covered in this posted from the 2009 PI Meeting covers a workshop on the topic of on-ramps. The topics on this poster are: goals of on-ramps, post-workshop participant support, speakers from the workshop, and topics from the workshop.

This document is an instrument used to evaluate a workshop on search committees.

This presentation covers why diversity is important for the workforce. It also covers how to recruit for diversity.

Dr. Cathy Trower led a workshop for pre-tenure faculty at Virginia Tech in 2008 to discuss findings of the COACHE survey.

This webpage is an agenda to a workshop with topics such as departmental governance, and student and assistantship management.

This webpage is a list of the workshops offered by the ASCENT program.

During the October 17, 2008 Faculty Mentor Lunch Workshop, a panel of 4 senior faculty with much mentoring experience provided insights and advice about mentoring. Our panel included 1 dean, 1 chair, and 2 senior faculty from 4 different colleges: CELS, Nursing, HSS, and Business Administration...

This documents is provided during mentor training. It covers the job description, how to initiative a mentoring relationship, ways to overcome potential obstacles, questions to discuss within mentoring relationships and at departmental level, and some recommendations.

This document is a one page agenda for a seminar on writing grants.

This poster provides information on implementing search committee training workshops, a workshop on faculty recruitment, retention, and leadership, and climate surveys. It was presented at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting.

This webpage is a list of event information for writing retreats, skills workshops, and chair workshops.

This document is a one page agenda of an event on writing and publishing as a faculty woman. Session titles are program administration, presentations, handling rejection and publishing patterns for faculty women, and workshop evaluation.

This document is a handout for a workshop on success. Sections of the paper include readings, activities, guest speakers, discussion, and background readings.

This document is a handout for a workshop on successfully attending conferences. The sections of this paper include readings, pre-workshop activities, presentations, and background resources.

This document is a one-page agenda for a workshop on the topic of giving presentation. Event titles are program administration, public speaking and making effective presentations, and workshop evaluation.

This document is a one page agenda with activities like lunch, presentations, discussion, and evaluation.

This webpage is a list of resources for the stewardship workgroup at the University of Arizona's ADVANCE Program. Their goal is to decrease unconscious bias by creating a climate of change instead of mandated rules and regulations. These resources are organized by different sessions (e.g., orientation, mentoring, service).

This links to the PDF of the presentation made by the University of Washington on how effective the workshops for department heads were. The presentation includes information about why these workshops are important, what was effective, and best and worst practices. This presentation was given at the 2006 PI Meeting.

Hosted at Hunter College for the Gender Equity Project, multiple workshops were held from February - May 2004 on topics such as self-promotion, leadership, and equality. Agendas, activities, and reading materials are listed.

The ADVANCE initiative at URI includes 5 general areas of focus. By (1) increasing the numbers of women faculty, (2) providing faculty development opportunities, (3) improving the networks of support, and (4) using assessment information gathered in a climate survey, we hope to improve the academic work environment and climate not only for women faculty at URI, but for all faculty.

Currently in the design phase, this new WISELI workshop series introduces faculty to the concepts of unconscious biases and assumptions by treating the application of such biases as a "bad habit."

This webpage is the base webpage for information about the junior faculty development workshop.

ADVANCE partners with NMSU Hispanic Caucus and the Provost’s Office to offer fall and spring workshops for all NMSU faculty. These workshops improve the understanding of the promotion and tenure process and thus increase retention of a vibrant, diverse faculty. The annual fall workshop provides general information about the promotion and tenure process and an opportunity for faculty across the institution to network. In odd-numbered years, the program focuses on the transition from associate to full profess

This document is a list of how to deal with bargaining and the different positions you can play: soft, hard, principled.

This document is a one page handout for a workshop on balancing work and evaluation. Sections of the paper include what to read, discussion questions, and descriptions of activities.

To persuade department heads and directors that they are the primary stewards of faculty careers and equip them with perspectives and strategies needed to carry out this stewardship.

This 3-day NSF Advance leadership workshop was designed to provide women in engineering and science with information and advice regarding professional advancement issues at all career levels, including, tenure, promotion and academic leadership roles.

The outreach component of the PACE project seeks to identify and engage American Indian women scientists and science advocates in activities that increase the creation of scientific knowledge and which facilitate the transfer of that knowledge at the local, national, and international levels.

Do yourself a favor - carve out some time. Join your colleagues in focused and quietly-inspiring 3-hour writing sessions, each introduced by a short, 15-minute presentation by successful writers and publishers at URI.

This document is divided into the sections of comment writing occurrences, types of writers, kinds of support, and a writing scenario.

The STRIDE Committee provides information and advice about practices that will maximize the likelihood that diverse, well-qualified candidates for faculty positions will be identified, and, if selected for offers, recruited, retained, and promoted at the University of Michigan...

This webpage is a list of available workshops. An example is the Search Committee Training Workshop.

The NIFP is a three-day, interactive workshop for female Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars interested in academic careers in engineering. Participants come from across the U.S.

AdvanceVT and the Office of the Provost host occasional workshops on Promotion to Professor. The Office of the Provost presents an overview of the process and requirements, recently promoted faculty members give their perspectives on preparation for promotion, and current or former members of college and university promotion and tenure committees respond to questions from the audience. Data on the number of years spent at the associate professor

Sample titles from slides in this presentation are theoretical focus, interdisciplinary research as collaborative, gender and collaboration, institutional structure, and university based research centers, and empirical issues.

This presentation covers a background on the ADVANCE Program at Brown University, Resources for writing grants, and some data on the current research funding climate.

This presentation covers mentoring, the kinds of relationships and mentors, and ten best mentoring practices.

This webpage is a list of workshops and events. Examples include the workshop series for junior faculty and the grant writing assistance program.

On May 12, 2005, ADVANCE and the URI Research Office jointly sponsored a 2.5 hour workshop on Securing Funding. Topics included how to find the right sponsor, how to present an idea, how to write a proposal, and how it will be evaluated.

This webpage is a list of outreach activities. Examples include visiting speakers, American Indian outreach, and Montana State University outreach.

Starting in 2004, AdvanceVT hosted annual "Advancing Women at Virginia Tech" workshops. Since 2008, the workshops have been co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and are now entitled "Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech."

As part of UMaine’s NSFsupported ADVANCE Project, funds will be available to faculty in STEM and social and behavioral science (SBS) fields and to others who directly promote ADVANCE-related efforts aimed at increasing the representation and advancement of women in the academic STEM and SBS careers. Once again we will be accepting proposals in the program areas outlined below.

Our goal? Assist incumbent women faculty in STEM as they develop their professional networks of collaborators, mentors, and campus supporters. The primary goal is to increase career resilience by establishing a supportive web of professional and social relations which incumbent women faculty can tap into when challenges and dilemmas arise in their career paths. Specific programs will include group workshops and one-on-one coaching opportunities that increase appreciation for and use of networks.

SU-ADVANCE hosted its first day-long workshop, giving women STEM faculty members a chance to (Re)Connect with each other and with the program following a very busy summer.

Our goal? Position the University for success in attracting and hiring highly-qualified women faculty These efforts will focus on increasing the proportion of highly qualified women faculty members in recruiting pools through the use of active networking strategies.

Making an Impact with Your Research

Lehigh University will disseminate methods for creating, maintaining, and supporting a critical mass of women in engineering and the sciences in an interdisciplinary environment.

The first in a series of exciting leadership development sessions was held May 18, 2011 in support of the ADVANCE -Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was entitled “The Connective Leadership Styles of Faculty: Leading Change” and was attended by 27 STEM faculty and department chairs from across ranks.

The first in a series of exciting leadership development sessions was held May 18, 2011 in support of the ADVANCE -Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was entitled “The Connective Leadership Styles of Faculty: Leading Change” and was attended by 27 STEM faculty and department chairs from across ranks.

The Lehigh Chapter of Sigma Xi presents: "A Workshop for Ethical Scientists." Dr. M. Virginia McSwain, Physics, will present insights from the 2011 Sigma Xi National Meeting and then lead an interactive discussion of the ethics of publishing research. Students are welcome and especially encouraged to attend. Program will take place in STEPS 101. Contact Joan Ramage, jmr204@lehigh.edu for more information.

The main goal of the Workshop is to assist Department Heads in ADVANCE Target Departments in the recruitment and retention of women STEM faculty. Department Heads will recommend candidates for the Workshops; they will also host their candidates for one afternoon and evening during the Workshop.

There are 12 ADVANCE activities that are designed to transform Texas A&M University by increasing gender equity for women STEM faculty. Each activity is aligned with one or more of the Psychologically Healthy Workplace (PHW) practices – the underlying, evidence-based framework for this initiative. The activities are organized into 3 broad categories: Climate Change, Success Enchancement and Recruitment and Retention.

Tips for getting started on Teaching with Technology workshop

Negotiating for What you Want workshop

Understanding personalities in the lab: the dynamics of scientific relationships

The strongest predictor of success in recruiting women is the inclusion of women in search committees. The ADVANCE Center for Women faculty, in conjunction with the Dean of Faculties, is expanding existing gender bias training for all members of search committees, committees making decisions on tenure and promotion, and committees making decisions on university and college awards.

The Summer Writing Retreat will provide a means of supporting the research career of STEM-SBS female faculty by providing a circle of faculty who focus on completing either a refereed paper or proposal during the summer. The goal is to redefine the role of female faculty in STEM-SBS by strengthening their research and writing knowledge. Ultimately, this component can be used to support all pre-tenure faculty, as part of the university’s promotion/tenure review process.

Activities and workshops at AAFAWCE-Advance

AAFAWCE 2011 Newsletter

Announcements for AAFAWCE upcoming events and news

Georgia Tech Current Initiatives

The ADVANCE program was institutionalized in 2007 at Georgia Tech. The program focuses on equity in tenure and promotion; faculty development to promote faculty research and advancement; tracking progress on hiring and advancement, particularly of female and underrepresented minority faculty; faculty work-life needs and initiatives, and other aspects of Georgia Tech’s integrated approach to institutionalized factors supporting the full participation and advancement of women.