This poster describes how AdvanceVT used findings of faculty work-life surveys to drive conversations with various constituencies on campus with the goal of improving climate for women and underrepresented faculty members.

Overview of AdvanceVT for the 2006 NSF site visit.

This webpage is a list of links for resources for untenured faculty. Examples include: Virginia Tech Work-Life Resources, Advice on how to ask for reduce hours, and Surviving and thriving in academia.

“AdvanceVT collects and reports data on the number and percentage of women faculty by college, rank, and department, as well as new hires, departures, and promotion and tenure outcomes. AdvanceVT also monitors the usage and impact of university work-life policies and conducts special studies on a variety of issues impacting women faculty. Information is shared with the university community through newsletters, presentations and reports.” A list of reports, presentations, posters, and toolkits can be found o

The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks...

The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks...

This webpage contains a list of events for graduate students hosted by AdvanceVT at Virginia Tech since 2004.

In 2008, AdvanceVT hosted the fifth annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop. Workshop agenda and links to presentations by Mark McNamee and Cathy Trower are here.

This presentation shares results from a study in which interviews were conducted with representatives from ADVANCE grantees. The interviews addressed efforts made by the institution to create lasting change. This presentation was given at the 2006 PI Meeting.

Sample titles of slides on this presentation are basic guidelines, essential application materials, cover letter, and more.

The sections of this poster are introduction, outcome measures, and reflections and recommendations. "Advance VT is a comprehensive program to promote and enhance the careers of women in academic science and engineering at Virginia Tech through institutional transformation... As the grant funding expires, all aspects of the program are being evaluated and prioritized for continuation.

Provost and AdvanceVT PI Mark McNamee gave an overview of progress to date at the 2008 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop.

This executive summary provides a broad portrait of the satisfaction and experiences of Virginia Tech's full-time, pre-tenure tenure-track faculty in 2006-07. It is an overview of several hundred pages of data and analysis.

"Creating a Positive Departmental Climate at Virginia Tech: A Compendium of Successful Strategies” was created as part of the AdvanceVT Departmental Climate Initiative. AdvanceVT's Department Climate Committee collected successful strategies for developing and maintaining a positive work environment and shared them with participants at the fourth annual Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop.

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.

The seventh annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop featured Dr. Freeman Hrabowski as the keynote speaker and breakout sessions on student recruitment, faculty mentoring, work/life balance, employee climate survey findings, and dealing with difference in the workplace.

"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 understand more fully the ways in which these issues manifest themselves within departments, and to share both succ

This presentation at the 2009 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop provides an overview of findings of AdvanceVT's 2008 faculty work-life survey, with comparison to the 2005 survey.

The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks...

This handout accompanies the presentation given by Particia Campbell on research design and evaluation for the 2007 PI ADVANCE meeting. It covers study type, design, representation, advantages, and disadvantages.

This document is a draft of a report on the AdvanceVT site visit. Topics in this paper include: Intervention Context, Intervention Strategy, Changes/Revisions to Strategy, Logic behind project intervention, Summary, Evaluation, Potential for Sustainability, and Recommendations.

The sections of this poster are introduction, method, results, conceptual model, and discussion. "Organizational climate is the individual's perceptions of the organization's policies, practices and procedures, both formal and informal.

During February and March of 2004, AdvanceVT conducted a survey to assess the current child care needs of Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and graduate students. 1,390 completed surveys were received.

This webpage is a list of links for resources for post-doctoral associates. Examples include a link to the National Post-Doctoral Association, and a link to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Lab Management Guide.

Sections of this paper include philosophy and beliefs important to balancing, balancing strategies, and kids speak out.

The two major categories of employment at Virginia Tech are “faculty” and “staff.” Vacant positions, whether staff or faculty are posted on www.jobs.vt.edu. In order to be considered an applicant for one of the posted positions (regardless of type), you must apply on-line through this Web site. Check the tutorial and frequently asked questions (FAQs) on that site for help in applying through PeopleAdmin.

This webpage is a list of resources for people who are considering applying for a job at Virginia Tech University. Example resources are "Finding Employment at Virginia Tech" and "Dual Career Assistance Resources".

This poster, prepared for the 2009 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop, shows trends in the numbers of women faculty at Virginia Tech.

"What does Title IX have to do with women in science? Title IX is a mechanism that - when wielded - successfully affects change for women. Americans rightly attribute the Education Amendments of 1972, commonly called Title IX, with the spectacular increase in opportunities for female athletes in schools and colleges, but the law as originally written never mentioned athletics. It stated, 'No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be . . . denied the benefits of . . . any educa

An overview of research methods is provided in this presentation for the 2007 PI Meeting. Links and resources are listed.

The sections of this paper include types of presentations, common features for presentation success, poster presentations, platform presentations, and seminars for job interviews.

Work-life balance means something different for each faculty member, but the overarching goal is to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all faculty members so they can succeed and are not required to make unacceptable choices between family and career. Retention of a talented faculty workforce is not just a matter of good start-up packages and...

This presentation covers some of the activities and initiatives up until 2004. The last two slides cover some assessment and research that was being done.

Perspectives from an associate dean and associate professor on the academic job search.

This webpage is a list of highlights of past events such as graduate student seminars, leadership lunches, and special events.

Sections of this paper are good practices for promotion and tenure, proposed qualitative terms for use in faculty evaluation, and sample written feedback to a faculty member.

This presentation covers what is climate, how is climate measured, what are some key indicators of change, what was learned from ADVANCE, and what role a department head plays in change.

Provost and AdvanceVT PI Mark McNamee gave an update on the status of AdvanceVT initiatives for the 2007 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop

Since 2003, AdvanceVT's Policy Work Group has reviewed and updated Virginia Tech's policy on tenure clock extension and developed new policies on modified duties and part-time employment. These policies put Virginia Tech in the vanguard of institutions addressing issues of academic work life.

A sense of intellectual community is of vital importance as a way of preserving academic traditions and the advancement of knowledge. Of the utmost importance is the willingness to share with colleagues and students the wealth of knowledge present and past without concern for competitive advantage.

This document is an executive summary of the family friendly practices instituted or continued by the Virginia Tech ADVANCE program. Some of these initiatives are child care, a work-life grant for graduate students, dual career guidelines and support, lactation areas, and more. This document was written for the PI2005.

Tips for success in grad school and beyond from an engineering professor.

This webpage contains an overview of AdvanceVT's 2005 faculty work-life survey and links to the questionnaire, summary reports, and presentation slides.

Virginia Tech hired external evaluators to review the AdvanceVT program in 2006.

Sample titles of slides on this presentation are typical terms of faculty offer for new assistant professor, terms of faculty offer maximums, know yourself, when negotiating.

"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

This presentation from the 2009 PI Meeting covers all the features of the ADVANCE Portal such as how the links are organized, the map and institutions webpage, information displayed for each link, the webmaster toolkit, and more.

This report is divided into the sections of program overview, participants, activities and findings, products, contributions, and attachments.

Perspectives from a recently hired faculty member on the academic search process.

Titles of slides in this presentation are early preparation, application materials, interview invitation, setting the agenda, and what to wear.

Well-structured and successful programs and departments depend on a shared sense of purpose, which requires a commitment to the creation and documentation of a set of carefully considered, intelligent, and well-written departmental regulations and procedures, openly available to scrutiny by all and whenever possible the product jointly of all staff and faculty.

A list of past news articles from AdvanceVT.

Advice for graduate students on preparing for an academic job interview (audio and slides).

This is the second of two “toolkits” developed to provide ADVANCE: Institutional Transformation (ADVANCE: IT) awardees with guidance on program evaluation. The first toolkit focused on the numerical indicator data that are required by the National Science Foundation on an annual basis...

Perspectives from a faculty member at a small liberal arts college.

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.

Are we making progress?

April Brown gave this presentation on Duke's women's initiatives at the first Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop in 2004.

This webpage is the title page for all the information on the AdvanceVT site visit. The agenda and outcomes are listed on the bottom.

Virginia Tech’s Office for Equity and Inclusion and AdvanceVT are pleased to invite proposals for the Virginia Tech Visiting Scholars Program. This program, initiated by AdvanceVT, is being expanded in response to recommendations of the Task Force on Race and the Institution.

This presentation covers the features of the ADVANCE Portal and where it will be heading in the future. It was presented at the 2009 NSF JAM meeting.

This summative assessment report describes AdvanceVT's research seed grant program for pre-tenure faculty and its outcomes.

Sample titles of slides in this presentation are AdvanceVT overview, survey background, survey respondents, analyzing survey results, and more.

Provost and AdvanceVT Principal Investigator Mark McNamee gave this update to the university community at the 2009 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop.

The ability of Virginia Tech to attract and retain the best faculty depends upon a culture that values and supports both the work and life needs of all faculty over the course of their careers.

This page catalogs all of the periodic newsletters produced by and about Virginia Tech's ADVANCE program, AdvanceVT.

Tips on how to engage the current generation of students in the classroom (audio and slides).

Presented in this poster are some of the changes at Virginia Tech due to the presence of an ADVANCE program. These include increasing the number of women faculty, developing women leaders, and others. This poster was presented at the 2005 PI meeting.

The sections of this poster are Introduction, Updating Work-Life Policies, Outcome Measures, and Reflections and Recommendations.

This summative assessment report provides an overview of AdvanceVT's leadership development programs and findings of follow-up interviews with the participants.

This report is divided into the sections of program overview, participants, activities and findings, products, and attachments.

These presentation slides from the 2009 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop provide a primer on bias and ways to address it.

Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen of AAC&U gave a keynote presentation on building capacity for inclusive excellence at the 2009 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop.

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.

In preparation for a site visit from NSF, AdvanceVT prepared this report summarizing activities and progress to date.

This wepbpage is a list of links on faculty searchers and visiting scholars

This webpage is a list of links on resources for search committees. Examples include: Unrecognized Bias and Assumptions Brochure and a Faculty Recruitment Toolkit.

“Virginia Tech proposes a comprehensive program to promote and enhance the careers of women in science and engineering. The project has four major program elements that address institutional barriers that have constrained the advancement of women faculty members in the sciences and engineering (SandE) and target institutional culture, practices, and leadership development needs specific to Virginia Tech. The four program elements are listed here, with outcome measures and process activities that

This presentation is a list of tips such as how to make personal contacts, write your CV, cover letter, and how to handle an interview and offer letter.

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

AdvanceVT has awarded PhD and Post-doctoral Fellowships in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 to outstanding graduate students and recent PhD recipients preparing for faculty careers.

Update on the status of implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Race and the Institution

Dr. Cathy Trower from Harvard's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) presented findings from Virginia Tech's participation in the national survey of pre-tenure faculty at the 2008 Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop.

This document is the survey instrument used for Virginia Tech's 2008 faculty survey.

Work-Life balance means different things to each of us, but its overreaching goal is a welcoming and supportive community for the diverse group of people who work and study at Virginia Tech. A comfortable balance between work life and...

Evaluation ensures improvement of the academic planning process and the performance of faculty members and their research teams.

This presentation some examples of work-life policies, the leaky pipeline, and the effect of family on tenure.

This webpage is broken down by resources for different people, research on women in science and engineering, professional organizations, and engineering organizations

In June 2006, AdvanceVT hosted a conference on preparing for an academic career.

Due to a lack of female leadership the ADVANCE program at Virginia Tech has created a new leadership development program. Information about this program is presented in this summary for the 2005 PI meeting.

The AdvanceVT Leadership Development Program selects a cohort of women from across the university who demonstrate an interest in and potential to assume leadership roles for individualized coaching and skill development. The program begins by assessing the current strengths and areas for development of the women in the cohort and provides feedback based on that assessment.

In 2009, AdvanceVT hosted the sixth annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop. The agenda, status reports, and presentations on inclusive excellence and bias literacy are available here.

In 2005 Virginia Tech’s ADVANCE program created a summary of the changes they have supported in their institution for the 2005 PI meeting. Some of these are working with different schools within the university such as the graduate school and making changes in the universities strategic plan.

In the spring of 2007 and again in fall of 2009, Virginia Tech participated in the COACHE survey of pre-tenure faculty. The COACHE survey asks faculty to assess their experiences regarding promotion and tenure, the nature of their work, policies and practices, and the general climate, culture and...

Titles of slides in this presentation are focusing on pre-tenured faculty, COACHE survey overview, selected peer institutions, and more.

AdvanceVT research seed grants provided funding to support junior faculty developing a successful proposal for external research funding. This follow-up report provides an overview of the program and its impact on pre-tenure faculty members at Virginia Tech.

This presentation from the 2009 PI Meeting covers: dissemination outlets, how to get started, preparing your manuscript, the JWMSE Review Timeline, and tips.

Virginia Tech is committed to maintaining a work environment in which all faculty members can succeed. The university used the results of AdvanceVT's faculty surveys to guide many changes over the last several years, including new and revised policies and programs related to dual career hiring, stopping the tenure clock, modified duties, a new part-time tenure-track option, expanded child care options, and leadership development program.

This webpage is a list of links for resources for graduate students. Examples include links to resources on how to negotiate a job offer and interviewing for an academic position.

The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks...

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.

This webpage lists links to the Faculty Handbook at Virginia Tech by section.

The AdvanceVT Leadership Team provides overall guidance and direction for the program, proposes new initiatives, evaluates progress, and disseminates information.

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

“The AdvanceVT Leadership Development Program is designed to increase participants’ leadership aspirations and to prepare them for a variety of leadership roles in higher education, focusing on the transition from senior faculty to academic leadership. The program selects a cohort of women from across the university who demonstrate an interest in and potential to assume leadership roles for individualized coaching and skill development.” This program is described in this poster including the needs, assessme

This poster describes AdvanceVT's leadership development programs for women faculty at Virginia Tech.

This presentation from the second annual Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop gives an overview of Virginia Tech's AdvanceVT program.

This 2006 presentation describes the findings of a study of the first two rounds of Institutional Transformation grant recipients and identifies successful strategies and indicators of lasting change.

AdvanceVT is a five-year program designed to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers through comprehensive and creative strategies aimed at institutional transformation.

Effective and supportive communication is a critical factor in retaining and promoting faculty.

Agenda for AdvanceVT's second annual Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop, with keynote speakers Virginia Valian and Denice Denton.

This webpage keeps track of up coming events and also news items about STEM women.

On Wednesday, April 2, at 3:00 pm, the University of Michigan CRLT Players visited Blacksburg’s Lyric Theater to present a dramatization of faculty interactions designed to stimulate discussion about climate and collegiality. The performance and discussion lasted approximately 90 minutes, and was followed by a reception.

This webpage is a list of links for resources for Department Heads. Examples include: Creating a positive department climate at Virginia Tech, and University of Washington Leadership Excellence for Academic Diversity resources.

This presentation covers a project that looked at data about being a parent while in academia.

To celebrate the transition from grant funding to university support, AdvanceVT interviewed many of the individual who have been involved in the program since its inception in 2003 and prepared this six minute video.

On January 10, 2005, Dr. Denice Denton, dean of engineering and ADVANCE PI at the University of Washington, gave this presentation at the second annual Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop.

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."