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Leadership Development Opportunities for Tenured Faculty. Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer , Ph.D. Deputy Director, Center for Faculty Success May 18, 2010. Outline. Overview of ADVANCE-Purdue Leadership Coaching Cohort Promoting Women’s Leadership Questions. ADVANCE-Purdue.
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Leadership Development Opportunities for Tenured Faculty Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Ph.D. Deputy Director, Center for Faculty Success May 18, 2010
Outline • Overview of ADVANCE-Purdue • Leadership Coaching Cohort • Promoting Women’s Leadership • Questions
ADVANCE-Purdue • Increase the number of women of color in STEM faculty positions • Improve the success of all women STEM faculty • Engage all faculty in transforming Purdue • Integrated Research Team
Goal 1: Increasing STEM women of color faculty • Search Chair Workshop on Faculty Hiring • Presidential ADVANCE Advocate • Cultural Center Events
Goal 2: Success of all STEM female faculty • Mentoring Institute for newly hired faculty • President’s Luncheons for STEM female faculty • Work-Life balance workshops • Leadership Development for tenured faculty • STEM female faculty of color group
Goal 3: Educate all faculty • Diversity Catalyst Program • Department Head workshops • Gender and Science Seminar Series
Integrated Research Team • Institutional Ethnography Study • Tenure and Promotion Policies • Family Leave Policy • Academic Career Pathways Study • Looking for a new metaphor to better describe the career paths of women, and women of color in particular • Results from the research will be used to improve programming and inform university policies
Goal 2 Program:Leadership Coaching Cohort Motivation: • A lot of energy is spent getting faculty tenured and then they are left on their own • No formal mentoring programs for tenured faculty • Senior faculty do not know what leadership opportunities are available • They want to get into leadership but don’t know how to get there
Leadership Coaching Cohort Many successful women in academia, industry and government state that the coaching they received played an important role in their success. Female STEM Faculty Professors 11% Associate Professors 19% Assistant Professors 28% Department Heads: 5 / 35 Center Directors 2 / 13 Purdue President France Córdova College of Engineering Dean Leah Jamieson
Leadership Coaching Cohort Susan Bulkeley Butler Dedicating her efforts to advancing the careers of women and women’s leadership www.sbbinstitute.org
Leadership Coaching Cohort Logistics: • open to tenured female STEM faculty • limited to 10 women per cohort • meet once/month for 2 hours • group coaching / personal coaching • pre and post evaluation each AY • goal is for the cohorts to continue year to year
Leadership Coaching Cohort Cohort One: • 7 women • 3 Full Professors • 4 Associate Professors • Representing the Colleges of Engineering, Science, Technology, Agriculture
What do you hope to gain? • Learn leadership skills for a business setting • I would like to continue to improve myself -- both by learning new skills and developing existing ones -- especially in the area of leadership. • I hope to find a mentor that I can turn when I need professional advice. • I would like to discuss the dos and don'ts of interacting with administrators. • Skills for effective management and leadership • Time to think about my career. In our fast paced lives, I do not think as often as I should about my career • Ultimately, I would like to have a clear career matrix that helps to prioritize my decisions.
What topics would you like to discuss? • Dealing with uneven distribution of workload and allocated resources • Saying ‘no’ nicely • Gender equality • How to get promoted • Managing difficult people • Leadership • Showing vision, while still managing current challenges • Prioritizing • Negotiating position and raise
What skills/resources are important to your future success? • Need leadership and organizational skills • Improve effective public speaking and public image • Gaining peer support, acceptance, and respect • Ability to recognize political and critical issues • Obtaining funds for career improvement • Skills for managing personal and professional lives
Leadership Coaching Cohort • “Make things happen for you, don't just let them happen to you” --Susan B. Butler • Make-It-Happen Model, a framework based on her consulting experienceswith Fortune 500 companies. • Create your vision • Build your team • Develop your plan • Navigate your journey
Leadership Coaching Cohort • Post-assessment for cohort I in progress • Fall 2010 • Cohort I will continue • Expanding to add a second cohort of female STEM faculty • Adding a cohort of female non-faculty STEM PhD directors/administrators
Promoting Women’s Leadership Database Education Educate Deans and Department Heads Leadership Coaching Cohort
Promoting Women’s Leadership • Mentoring Institute • Develop cohort early • Provide strategies and resources for success • Diversity Catalyst Program • Trained in the literature and promote diversity across campus • Training for Deans and Department Heads