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INSTITUTIONALIZING TRANSFORMATION An NSF ADVANCE Program Discovery. Update on CHARGE Innovation. Program; Year 5 Diversity. OUTLINE CHARGE Overview Goals CHARGE Results Faculty Search Seminar Bias Intervention Workshop
An NSF ADVANCE Program
Discovery. Innovation. Diversity.
Update on CHARGE Program; Year 5
Goal 1, 21st Century Departments: To strengthen and support departmental efforts to create a positive environment for all faculty with an emphasis on women and minorities
Goal 2, Recruitment & Hiring: To increase the gender diversity of STEM/SBE departments
Goal 3, Voices & Visibility: To increase the sense of belonging of STEM/SBE women faculty among their schools and departments
101 faculty & staff attended workshops in September and November
Interactive theater with Univ. of New Hampshire PowerPlay Scenario topics
Follow-up evaluation after 6 months to see what attendees learned and used
used equitable search practices
bias (Bias Literacy Level 1)
candidate evaluations
select students for groups
conversations about searches
bias in the process
13% 70% 78% 87% 13% 17% 13% 9% 73% 13% 9% 4% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Other Reduced biases that affect the evaluation of candidates Recognized my own biases in evaluating candidates Ensured committee used equitable search practices
Yes No Does not apply
*55% response rate
The Workshop
recognize implicit bias, but did not know how to intervene with colleagues
safely intervene and interrupt implicit bias situations
State Univ. Demographics, 70 attendees
8% 5% 58% 48% 8% 26% 33% 39% 9% 14% 53% 0% 50% 100%
Experience intervening Comfort intervening Awareness of implicit bias
None Limited Moderate Strong
3% 3% 2% 52% 42% 26% 45% 55% 72% 0% 50% 100%
Willingness to intervene Intentions to intervene Awareness of implicit bias
None Limited Moderate Strong
dissonance, questioning, non confrontational
redirecting
2% 2% 5% 3% 18% 65% 43% 45% 30% 52% 35%
0% 50% 100% Confident using strategies to intervene More knowledgeable about intervening Better recognize implicit bias Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree
gender discrimination in STEM and the joys they find in science
acting gender stereotypes
Room
staff, faculty, prospective students, parents, university tours, chemistry camps K-12
the portraits
use these spaces creatively like this more often
UVA; still see remnants of this culture today
professors/colleagues had experienced this level of gender discrimination; more aware of own bias
*Random sample of visitors interviewed for evaluation
Purpose: NSF requires ADVANCE projects to be institutionalized by the end of the grant
CHARGE Sustainability Model:
Internal Advisory Board (IAB) leading institutionalization
First Project to institutionalize
practices in searches; search committee dynamics
become part of the portfolio of the new Asst Vice Provost for Faculty Development
institutionalizing the methodology—interactive theater.
CHARGE projects currently being institutionalized CHARGE projects not institutionalized yet Schools Admin units Individuals & new partners project in transition project institutionalized Collaborative influence Possible home Institutionalized project & new home