Welcome to the December edition of the STEM LEAF/ADVANCE Newsletter!
Clarkson’s NSF ADVANCE grant is designed
1) to effect positive institutional change around reduction of implicit or unintentional bias associated with gender and intersectional issues of race, ethnicity, country of origin, sexual orientation, and disability,
2) to systematically and equitably support the development of inclusive leadership skills and the professional advancement of women STEM faculty, and
3) to implement sustainable, systematic changes across the University in support of these goals.
Upcoming Advocates and Allies Workshops
Our Advocates team will have a Clarkson-specific workshop (Men Allies for Gender Equity) ready for faculty soon! All department chairs recently had the opportunity to attend the workshop. Please be on the lookout for dates next semester!
Advocates & Allies is a program designed to improve gender equity through direct and proactive engagement of men faculty. The program is used by more than 15 universities around the nation, including Lehigh University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Our program is run in conjunction with a Women Faculty Advisory Council.
Upcoming Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads Workshop
On February 28, 2023 from 12-1:30pm ADVANCE is hosting a workshop on Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads based on the below paper. The workshop will cover the problem of workload equity, with some interactive exercises, and then describe the process by which units/departments can address workload inequities (principles for reform, developing dashboards, putting in place policies/practices). The workshop will be given by Dawn K. Culpepper (University of Maryland), Joya Misra (UMass Amherst), and KerryAnn O’Meara (University of Maryland).
If you’re interested in holding the time please send an email to streptow@clarkson.edu and Sarah will send you the calendar invitation.
Resource
Equity-Minded Faculty Workloads: What We Can and Should Do Now
“This report summarizes the authors’ findings and insights learned from the Faculty Workload and Rewards Project (FWRP), a National Science Foundation ADVANCE-funded action research project. The FWRP worked with 51 departments and academic units to promote equity in how faculty work is taken up, assigned, and rewarded, drawing from theories of behavioral economics and the principles of equity-mindedness. Using a randomized experiment with treatment and control groups, we found that there are actions that academic units can take to promote workload equity. The treatment groups participated in a four-part workload intervention that included training on workload inequity, creating a faculty work activity dashboard, developing an equity action plan, and individual faculty professional development on managing time-use.
Based on this research, this report then makes recommendations for how academic units can promote workload equity.”
ADVANCE Grant
Are you interested in being involved in writing Clarkson’s next ADVANCE grant? Please send Sarah (streptow@clarkson.edu or anyone on our PI team) an email if so! Look here for more information on NSF’s ADVANCE grant program.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at advance@clarkson.edu. If you’d like to keep up with information like this regularly, you can follow our Twitter account @ClarksonADVANCE. (Our PI team consists of Marc Christensen, Jen Ball, Laura Ettinger, William Jemison, & Stephanie Schuckers. Our Project Director is Sarah Treptow.)
