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Faculty Recruiting: Attracting Top Women Candidates

Faculty Recruiting: Attracting Top Women Candidates. Christine Schmidt & Rebecca Richards-Kortum April 5, 2004. “The most accurate predictor of subsequent success for female undergraduates is the percentage of women among faculty members at their college.”

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Faculty Recruiting: Attracting Top Women Candidates

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  1. Faculty Recruiting: Attracting Top Women Candidates Christine Schmidt & Rebecca Richards-Kortum April 5, 2004

  2. “The most accurate predictor of subsequent success for female undergraduates is the percentage of women among faculty members at their college.” • -- Trowers and Chait; Harvard Magazine, 104:33, 2002

  3. Purple Sage 2002:Rebecca Richards-Kortum presented information on recruiting, retaining & mentoring women facultyGoal: double number of women faculty in five years (add 4 women faculty/year over 5 years) Purple Sage 2003:Recruiting/interviewing document disseminated to Department Chairs (to share with Faculty Recruiting Committees) So where are we now?

  4. Goal set in Fall 2002: To Double the Number of Female Faculty in 5 years (2007) * One confirmed hire for 2004; as of today, only 2 females are still being considered.

  5. Recruitment Scorecard • 2002-03: • Of 44 candidates interviewed: 13 (30%) were female • Of 18 offers made: 7 (39%) offers were made to females • Of 12 offers accepted, 3 (25%) were accepted by females • NOTE: BME accounted for 53% of female candidates interviewed and 57% of offers made to females • 2003-04: To date… • Of 20 candidates interviewed (or to be interviewed): 5 (25%) are female • Of these 5, only 2 remain active candidates (2 were not offered positions, and one turned down an offer)

  6. Are There Female Candidates Out There? NOTE: BME interviewed 7 female candidates in 2003

  7. Questions to Consider • Guiding Principle:“If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting…” • Q: If the Departments continue to recruit in the same way, will we be able double the number of female faculty by 2007? • A: Not likely… • So what do we need to do differently?

  8. Bottom Line:Members of EFWO will help, but recruiting top women faculty needs to be a college and departmental-level priority EFWO Web site: http://www.bme.utexas.edu/faculty/richards-kortum/womenineng

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