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Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE
Research Program
Mary Frank Fox
Co-Principal Investigator
NSF ADVANCE Site Visit
June 2004
I.
GT ADVANCE Initiative & Research Program
A. The Georgia Tech (GT) Research Program is closely tied to the
GT ADVANCE Initiative’s integrated institutional approach.
B. The approach emphasizes organizational features and factors
that shape positive outcomes through:
1) Organizational climate
2) Clarity/equity of guidelines for evaluation
3) Collaborative networks of opportunity
4) Supportive work-family/household practices
C. Aims of Research Program:
1) Help identify and portray what is “at issue” in perceptions, experiences, needs.
2) Provide bases for continuing development of strategies
for ADVANCE.
3) Assess change in experiences.
II. GT Survey of Faculty Perceptions, Needs,
and Experiences
A. Assesses perceptions and experiences of faculty in four
key areas:
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Teaching and research
Work environments
Processes of evaluation
Work-family/household arrangements
B. Mail Survey:
Population of tenured and tenure-track women faculty, and stratified random sample
of men in (4) Colleges: Computing, Engineering, Ivan Allen, Sciences.
C. Response Rate:
76% of GT faculty: 85% of women (N=91), 70% of men (N=114)
D. Aims:
1) Help serve as a means of defining the problem and developing strategies.
2) Provide a base-line toward assessment of change (follow-up to base-line survey
to occur in 2005).
III. Face-to-face Interviews, in follow-up to
GT Survey
A. Focus upon:
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Research: collaboration in research
Work experiences: most and least satisfying
Distribution of resources: e.g., space, equipment
Advancement: understandings of bases/criteria
Decision making: participation
Academic career: importance of aspects
Work-Family/personal life: affects and sense of control
B. Sample: 20 women faculty across ranks (junior and senior),
four Colleges, and racial/ethnic groups – including three
faculty members who have left.
C. Aims:
1) Help provide understanding of ways that environment may influence satisfaction,
success, advancement.
2) Characterize what is meant by “full participation.”
3) Identify issues of “critical transitions.”
IV. Survey of Peer Institutions
A. Focus: areas of GT Survey of Faculty.
B. Surveyed: tenured and tenure-track women and men
faculty in Computer Science, Engineering, and Sciences
(biology; chemistry; earth/atmospheric; math; physics;
psychology) in 8 peer institutions. *
C. Response Rate: 65% of men (N=332); 65% of women
(N=276)
D. Aim: Provide comparative context to GT survey/findings.
*Population of faculty women in Computer Science,
Engineering, and Sciences (except biology and
psychology); stratified random sample of women in
biology and psychology. Stratified random sample of
men faculty in Computer Science, Engineering, and
Sciences. Strata = fields within institutions.
V. Interface with and Support of: Promotion
and Tenure ADVANCE Committee (PTAC)
David McDowell (Regents Professor, Committee Chair)
Carol Colatrella (Professor and WST Co-director)
A. PTAC Survey
B. Development of Case Studies, illustrating areas
of potential biases
C. Awareness of Decisions in the Evaluation of
Promotion and Tenure (ADEPT) – interactive tool
to assist in identification of bias