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Overview Presentation Mary Lynn Realff Co-PI and Project Director NSF Site Visit June 8, 2004 GT NSF ADVANCE – taking an integrated approach to institutional factors that will support the full participation and advancement of women in science and engineering Networks and Professorships • Women faculty meet in groups frequently • College and inter-college activities bring together women – Offer encouragement – Establish research collaborations – Communicate more effectively with administration (college and institute) • Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology (WST) sponsors activities and partnerships that encourage the full participation of women • Annual GT Conference Professor Activities • identifying, prioritizing, and taking action with the dean and school chairs on key issues within the schools • addressing across-COE challenges/opportunities • Developed programs that implement means to advancement. • Developed electronic profiles of IAC women faculty and a listserve for women in College • Fostered networks of communication, information, mentoring, faculty development activities and exchange. • CoS faculty mentoring program • Developing CoS promotion/tenure guidelines and faculty resources web site • GT is hub for the National Center for Women and Information Technology for faculty development • facilitating communication among women faculty, graduate students, and administrators Best Idea Yet: Collaboratively Set Expectations and Create Solutions Identify best practices Identify barriers to success Make recommendations Implement their recommendations Conference Breakout groups Advantages – People give you better ideas when they know you are going to implement them – People “buy in” when they have contributed to the solution – Format gives a good balance of “identifying problems” with generation of “actions” Outcomes – Faculty and administrators develop solutions together – Group interaction builds networks across campus – Leverage best practices across the entire campus Promotion Tenure Advance Committee (PTAC) Formed to address the effectiveness of a wide range of faculty development and evaluation issues campus-wide, across all academic disciplines. Mission as a grassroots faculty-driven effort, PTAC was conceived and charged to: (1) encompass a broad study of potential forms of bias in faculty development and tenure/promotion evaluations, (2) look into any conceivable set of issues related to faculty development, mentoring, and evaluation procedures, (3) develop a methodology to periodically measure faculty perceptions. Significant Accomplishment: ADEPT Computer Instrument to Reduce Bias in Evaluation Awareness of Decisions in Evaluating Promotion & Tenure • Interactive learning tool • Identification of institute best practices • Scholarship on bias • Fictional P&T case studies • Interactive P&T meeting GT Promotion and Tenure ADVANCE Committee • GT ADVANCE research & surveys • PTAC report & surveys Areas of difficulty/resistance • Data Collection – Collating various databases – Referencing individual personnel files for data facts – Comparing data difficult • Not a unique space data clearing house • Offer letter varies among disciplines • Implementing the family-work policies/procedures – Working with the University System of Georgia – Tailoring implementation to the colleges – Educating the faculty about appropriate use of leave vs. active-service modified duties.