2014 AdvanceRIT: Transforming an Institution Using Data to Inform Creative Interventions Sharon Mason Rochester Institute of Technology October 9, 2014 #GHC

AdvanceRIT Team  Dr. Margaret Bailey, PI  Professor Betsy Dell, co-PI  Dr. Carol Marchetti, co-PI  Professor Sharon Mason, co-PI  Professor Maureeen Valentine, co-PI  Dr. Kijana Crawford, Women of Color Research  Dr. Susan Foster, Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Research  Dr. Laurie Clayton, Program Director

2014 Institutional Context  Private Institution  18,000 Students (of which 15,000 undergrad)  1,000 Pre-tenured & Tenured Faculty  Over past decade move from teaching to a “balanced teaching/scholarship” institution

2014 AdvanceRIT  Five Year NSF Award −Award # −Informed by EFFORT, 3-year self study  Increase the representation and advancement of women STEM/SBS faculty, widely represented across ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds, by removing barriers to resources that support career success and by creating new interventions and resources.

2014 Programming, Policy and Data  Data Driven Policy Revisions and Programming

2014 Data Collection  NSF Indicator Data  Faculty Mentoring Program  Faculty Awards  COACHE Faculty Climate Survey

2014 NSF Indicator Data % of STEM Faculty by Years in Rank at Associate Professor, 2012 % of SBS Faculty by Years in Rank at Associate Professor, years>9 years7-9 years>9 years Women19.50%36.60%6.70%13.30% Men19.70%27%11.10% % (Count) of Women Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty by Rank, STEM/SBS in 2010 and 2012 STEMTotalFullAssociateAssistant % (101)18% (27)25% (41)30% (33) % (95)16% (24)24% (35)31% (36) SBSTotalFullAssociateAssistant % (29)13% (3)46% (15)39% (11) % (33)17% (4)43% (16)43% (13) Table 1 Table 2

2014 Faculty Mentoring Program Key Findings Opportunities for faculty to be paired with mentors that:  Encourage grant proposal submissions. −32% of women and 41% of men were encouraged by their mentor to submit grant proposals.  Encourage publication authorship. −56% of women and 46% of men discussed authorship of publications with their mentors.  Discuss the tenure process. −65% of women and 66% of men discussed the tenure process with their mentors.  Are from outside the university. −38% of women respondents have a mentor outside RIT, compared with 33% of men. 83% of women respondents have an RIT mentor, compared with 76% of men.  Connect mentees with people who “fill in the gaps” to strengthen areas of less skill. −29% of women and 31% of men reflected a need for this. Use of mentors from outside the university may support this area of need.  Offer advice regarding career/life balance. −Mentors offered advice in this area to only 24% of women and 28% of men mentees.

2014 Faculty Awards Study  Noticeable lack of women on stage at commencement and among faculty award recipients  Conversations with colleagues  Were these observations an anomaly?  Conducted a study

2014 Faculty Awards, cont.  Studied five (5) years of faculty award data: −Academic years 2007 through 2011  Percentage of awards received by female faculty  Compared to weighted percentage of females in the faculty population based on −Number and type of awards −Eligibility requirements (e.g. tenured faculty) −Faculty data provided by institutional research  Women underrepresented, at 12.1%, when by their representation among the faculty one would expect 30.5%  8.0%

COACHE Faculty Climate Survey  65% of women faculty and 57% of men faculty responded  Large effect size by gender −Women: Reasonable Expectations as a Scholar and Community Member −Men: Effectiveness of Mentoring outside the Department and Institution  Medium effect size by gender −Women: Tenure Reasonableness, Time Spent on Research, Clarity of Tenure Criteria, Laboratory, Research and Studio Space, Eldercare, and Stop the Clock Policies

2014 COACHE, cont.  How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of the long-range career map/plan that you have created? −63% men and 36% women respondents were very satisfied or satisfied with the quality of their plan. −16 women and 43 men indicated that they did not have a long-range career map.

2014 Policy Revisions  Tenure Policy Rewrite −50 year old policy −1.5 years in Academic Senate −Improved clarity, 11 pages to >20 pages −Automatic tenure extension for new parents  2012 COACHE survey responses informed tenure policy rewrite

2014 Programming  Connectivity Series −COACh Basic Negotiations, Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution −Daring Appreciation: Strategies for Increasing Recognition of your Work  Connect Grants −Faculty and Department Awards  Informed by COACHE, Awards data, NSF Indicators and Faculty Mentoring Program

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