Recruiting, Retaining,

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Recruiting, Retaining, Mentoring Women
Faculty11/1/02
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Who Teaches Matters

• 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, 10433, 2002.
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Representation of Women inGraduate Professional
Programs
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Spectrum of Approaches
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Outline

• History of UT EFWO
• Review Objective Data
• Discussion
• Set Measurable Goals
• Process to Achieve Goals
• Resources to Achieve Goals

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UT EFWO

• http//www.engr.utexas.edu/bme/faculty/richards-ko
  rtum/WomenInEng/
• Child Care Survey Report
• Summer 01
• Career Success Workshop
• April 02
• White Paper
• Fall 02

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White Paper Areas of Concern

• 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 tonights discussion

• Attract more women faculty

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Where are 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 changed?
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How do we compare to our peers?
2001 ASEE Data
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Women Faculty by Dept.
2001 ASEE Data
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Women Faculty by Dept.
2001 ASEE Data
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Are there qualified candidates?
2001 ASEE Data
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Do they apply to UT?
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Why did our current women faculty apply?
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What should we do?

• Goals
• Action Items
• Resources

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Goals

• 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 Approaches
Negative Neutral Supportive Pro-Active
What PROACTIVE recruitment approaches are needed
to DOUBLE the number of FEMALE FACULTY?
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Attract women faculty

• 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 faculty

• Monitor numbers
• Assess departmental climates
• Critical mass
• Mentoring program
• Career Success workshop

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Mentor our Women PhD Students

• Faculty driven mentoring activities for graduate
  students
• F6 First Friday Forum for Future Female Faculty

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Women in leadership positions

• Monitor numbers
• Recruit externally

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Target of Opportunity Program

• 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 women go?
NSF Data Courtesy V. Kuck
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Where do the women go?
NSF Data Courtesy V. Kuck
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Where do the women go?
From Scarcity to Visibility National Academy Press
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Where do the women go?
NSF Data Courtesy V. Kuck