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Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State

Mary C. Juhas, Ph.DProgram Director

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• Context: The ADVANCE program at the National Science Foundation (NSF)

• Our project: CEOS• Our campus partners

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The National Science Foundation• an independent federal agency

created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…"

• annual budget of about $6.9 B (FY 2010)

• funding source for ~20 % of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities 3

Arlington, VA

www.nsf.gov

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NSF Plan for Broadening Participation

• Prepare a diverse globally engaged STEM workforce.

• Expand efforts to broaden participation from underrepresented groups and diverse institutions in all NSF activities.

• Integrate research with education, and building capacity.

• Improve processes to recruit and select highly qualified panel reviewers.

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• Goal: to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce.

• Institutional Transformation (IT) – include innovative systemic organizational approaches to

comprehensively transform institutions in ways that will increase the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic careers.

– must include a research component designed to study the effectiveness of the proposed innovations in order to contribute to the knowledge base informing academic institutional transformation

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The NSF ADVANCE Program

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• OSU ADVANCE Funding: $3.6M, 5-year grant starting Sept. ’08

• 49 ADVANCE IT institutions; 5 in the Big Ten, 3 in Ohio (OSU, CWRU, and Wright State)– 22 active– 27 “graduated” but many have continued support.

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• Improve recruitment and retention of women & minority faculty

• Improve diversity of faculty & students• Establish a pool of senior women available for

leadership positions

ADVANCE: Expected Benefits

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• Natural & Mathematical Sciences• Engineering• Veterinary Medicine

Participating Colleges

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Representation of Women Faculty in 2007

College Asst Prof Assoc Prof Prof TotalN of Faculty

CBS 39.1% 23.7% 17.1% 25.5% 102

MAPS 37.8% 14.8% 6.3% 13.3% 225

ENG 26.8% 19.3% 5.4% 12.8% 272

VET 44.4% 33.3% 20.0% 27.1% 70

All OSU 40.8% 34.6% 18.2% 30.6% 3477

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TransformationalLeadership

Vision of Vision of Support and Support and InclusivenessInclusiveness

Individual Needs Individual Needs Understood and Understood and

MetMet

Flexible Career Flexible Career PoliciesPolicies

Cultural Cultural Assumptions Assumptions

Questioned and Questioned and ShiftedShifted

Changed Changed Practices Practices

Accommodate Accommodate DiversityDiversity

Transformational Leadership Model

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• Joan Herbers, PI: Natural & Mathematical Sciences• Jill Bystydzienski, co-PI: Women’s Studies• Anne Carey, co-PI: Natural & Mathematical Sciences• Anand Desai, co-PI: Glenn School of Public Policy• Anne Massaro, co-PI (0.5 FTE): Human Resources• Carolyn Merry, co-PI: Engineering• Jean Sander, co-PI: Veterinary Medicine• Susan Williams, co-PI: Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty

Resources and Professor of English• Mary Juhas, Program Director (0.5 FTE): Engineering• Administrative Associate: Pamela Clark • GRAs: Samantha Howe & Jennifer Lang

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The Team

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Four Elements of Project CEOS

1. Quarterly: leadership training for deans and department chairs

2. Monthly: peer mentoring for women leaders in the STEM Colleges

3. Year 2: Project REACH – commercializing your research4. Year 3: action learning teams that include deans, chairs,

faculty and staff in the participating Colleges and beyond

IMPORTANT: Facilitated by experts and continually assessed!

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• Began with a needs assessment of women faculty• Prestige in participating: nomination from dean &

tuition paid by the College• Four-workshop series in WI and SP quarters 2010– Visioning Social Impact from Research– Building Awareness & Skills for Collaboration– Capitalizing on OSU Tech Transfer Resources– Stepping Out & Building a Network for Impact

• We will take this on the road to help other institutions.

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Project REACH: our signature program

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• U.S. Commerce Secretary announced on 9/24/09 plans to create a new Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the Department of Commerce and launch a National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Both new initiatives will help leverage the entire federal government on behalf of promoting entrepreneurship in America.

• …will be geared toward the first step in the business cycle: moving an idea from someone's imagination, or from a research lab, into a business plan

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US Department of Commerce Press Release

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• Hazel Morrow-Jones: Director of The Women’s Place• Glenda La Rue: Director, Women in Engineering Program (ENG)• Jean Schelhorn: Associate Vice President, Office of Technology

Licensing & Commercialization• Michael Camp: Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship• Georgina Dodge: Office of Minority Affairs• Brenda Brueggemann: Program Coordinator, Disability Studies

Program• Julie Carpenter-Hubin: Director, Institutional Research &

Planning• Mary Juhas, ex officio

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Internal Advisory Committee

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• Dr. Joseph Alutto, Provost and Executive Vice President (chair)

• Dr. Sharon Bird: Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, Iowa State, co-PI on ISU’s ADVANCE project

• Dr. Carolyn Mahoney: President of Lincoln University, Missouri

• Dr. Farah Majidzadeh: CEO of Resource International, an engineering consulting firm in Columbus

• Dr. Sue Rosser: Provost, San Francisco State University

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External Advisory Committee

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1. University Communications2. STEM Abilities Grant3. The Women’s Place – PPLI, HERS, various workshops4. Chairs Collaborating with Chairs5. Work Life – Office of Human Resources6. OSU Child Care Center7. Academic Leader Development series8. President’s Council on Women – policy related9. Institutional Research & Planning10. Project GRO (Grants Research Outreach)11. Technology Licensing & Commercialization12. Center for Entrepreneurship13. Fisher College of Business14. Office of Research15. TechColumbus

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Campus Partners

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• 42/265 women faculty = 15.8%– Includes 16 from Knowlton School of Architecture, KSA– 26 women faculty excluding KSA = 11%– 14 assistant, 16 associate, 13 full professors

• Quarterly luncheons for women faculty in the executive board room of Pfahl Hall– The dean sometimes attends.– President Gee joined us last year and asked to be invited

again.• Monthly happy hours at the Blackwell

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The College of Engineering

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Source: ASEE, “By the Numbers”, 2008

Number of Tenured/TT Women Faculty in ENG

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THANK YOU!

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"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The

second best is today“ —Ancient Chinese proverb

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The

second best is today“ —Ancient Chinese proverb