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New Initiatives in Faculty Professional Development: TRANSFORM

Lori D. Lindley Grant Team: Karinna M. Vernaza, Elisa M. Konieczko, Weslene Tallmadge, Sreela Sasi, Valerie Bacik, Catherine Datte

June 1, 2015

TRANSFORM

Teaching Research Advancement Network to Secure Female Faculty For Organizational Retention and Management

• Goal

To increase the recruitment, retention,

advancement, and leadership development of STEM female faculty at Gannon.

• Vision

To have Gannon University be regionally

recognized as an institution supporting and developing female faculty throughout their careers.

Gannon University Snapshot

• Catholic, Diocesan university
• Located in Erie, PA
• Founded in 1925
• Enrollment (Fall 2014):

2,593 full-time undergraduate 612 part-time undergraduate 1,205 graduate 4,410 total student enrollment

• Approximately 218 full-time faculty

College of Engineering and Business: 49 College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences: 79 Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences: 85 Library: 8

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Three Strategies

• TRANSFORM Strategies
• Strategy 1: Dual Career Services
• Strategy 2: Research Initiation Award

for Early-Career or Mid-Career Faculty

• Strategy 3: Leadership Development

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Strategy 3: Leadership Development

• Develop a curriculum to prepare all faculty for leadership roles
• Training topic domains include leadership and vision, task

demands, and interpersonal communication

• Offer 3 half-day workshops per semester during academic year

Activity 1: Leadership development training

• Audience: Department chairs, program directors, academic

deans

• Offer 1 half-day workshop per semester during academic year
• Initial goals of climate change and education regarding barriers

for female faculty evolved to include general support for new chairs

Activity 2: Leaders’ forum for climate change

• One-day culmination of leadership workshops provided

throughout the academic year

• Keynote speaker brought to address issues for leaders in higher

education

• Advertised to the Lake Erie tri-state area

Activity 3: Regional leadership symposium

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Activity 1: Leadership development training

• Initial list of topics generated from focus groups and

programming at other institutions with NSF-funded professional development

• Later topics were generated from feedback on sessions and

responses to the evaluation question, “What other topics would you like to see included in future workshops?”

• The Strategy 3 team carefully screened and coached any

external consultants with regard to the culture of academia and of Gannon in particular, to help them connect with faculty and bring applicable examples

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Activity 1: Leadership development training

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Leadership and self- knowledge

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Team building

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Least preferred coworker

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Communications

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Conflict resolution

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Negotiations

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Present like a pro…and get results!

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Goal setting and 360 feedback

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Work life balance

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Strength-based leadership

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Power distance

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Self-awareness and self- management

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Social awareness and relationship management

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Emotional intelligence

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Conflict resolution and problem-solving strategies

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Embracing change and

• vercoming resistance

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The architecture of a positive work environment

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Communicate with impact

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How to get people to “buy into” change

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Workshop topics 2012-2015

Activity 1: Leadership development training

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Training source

External consultant Internal faculty/staff Webinar

Activity 1: Leadership development training

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Engineering/ Business Morosky* CHESS** Staff Total Spring 13 14 (30%) 8 (9%) 13 (16%) 14 49 Fall 13 7 (15%) 16 (19%) 18 (23%) 2 43 Spring 14 7 (15%) 11 (13%) 9 (11%) 9 36 Fall 14 17 (37%) 11 (13%) 6 (8%) 7 41 Spring 15 14 (30%) 12 (14%) 8 (10%) 33 36

Participation

Percentages indicate percentage of faculty participating from that college

* College of Health Professions and Sciences **College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Across all sessions, 92% of participants agree or strongly agree with evaluation items regarding quality, applicability, structure, content, and delivery of programming.

Activity 2: Leaders’ forum for climate change

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(Department chairs and Program directors) Workshop topics 2012-2015

Semester Topic Source Spring 2012 Academic Gender Equality Internal faculty and staff presenters Fall 2012 Effective and Fair Evaluations Webinar and Deans’ panel Spring 2013 Understanding and Avoiding Legal Issues Webinar, university legal counsel and Deans’ panel Fall 2013 Budgeting and Getting the Resources your Department Needs Webinar, Budget director and Deans’ panel Spring 2014 Implicit Bias in Hiring External faculty speaker Fall 2014 Dealing with Difficult People External faculty speaker Spring 2015 Conducting Evaluations and Providing Feedback External consultant speaker

Activity 2: Leaders’ forum for climate change

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(Department chairs and Program directors) Participation

Percentages indicate percentage of administrators participating from that college

* College of Health Professions and Sciences **College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Engineering/ Business Morosky* CHESS** Other Admin. Total Spring 13 4 (44%) 9 (47%) 4 (14%) 3 20 Fall 13 2 (22%) 6 (30%) 5 (18%) 1 14 Spring 14 2 (22%) 4 (20%) 7 (25%) 3 16 Fall 14 8 (89%) 5 (25%) 5 (18%) 5 23 Spring 15 5 (56%) 4 (20%) 4 (14%) 1 15

Activity 3: Regional Leadership Symposium

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• Inaugural event was May

20, 2014

• Topic was

Transformational Leadership

• 65 internal attendees
• 12 regional attendees

Activity 3: Regional Leadership Symposium

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• Second annual event on May

19, 2015

• Topic is Project

Management

• Registration as of May 1:

Internal: 104 External: 7

• Leadership series for 2015-

2016 AY is planned as follow-up on this topic

Sustainability

• Due to recognized value to the university, support has been
• ffered for continuing these initiatives after the conclusion of

the grant

• The Leadership series (Activity 1) will be funded through

Gannon’s Human Resources and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is proposed to be administered by the Associate Deans of the 3 colleges

• Training for Chairs and PDs (Activity 2) will be funded and

administered through the office of the provost

• It has been recommended that the Regional Leadership

Symposium (Activity 3) be combined strategically with CETL’s annual regional event

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Acknowledgement

THIS WORK IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARD HRD-1107015.

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Questions?