Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State

1. Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State Mary C. Juhas, Ph.D Program Director

2. Context: The ADVANCE program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) • Our project: CEOS • Our campus partners

3. 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 Arlington, VA www.nsf.gov

4. 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.

5. The NSF ADVANCE Program • 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

6. OSU ADVANCE Funding: $3.6M, 5-year grant starting Sept. ’08 • 49 ADVANCE IT institutions; 5in the Big Ten, 3 in Ohio (OSU, CWRU, and Wright State) • 22 active • 27 “graduated” but many have continued support.

7. ADVANCE: Expected Benefits • Improve recruitment and retention of women & minority faculty • Improve diversity of faculty & students • Establish a pool of senior women available for leadership positions

8. Participating Colleges • Natural & Mathematical Sciences • Engineering • Veterinary Medicine

9. Representation of Women Faculty in 2007

10. Transformational Leadership Model Vision of Support and Inclusiveness Transformational Leadership Cultural Assumptions Questioned and Shifted Individual Needs Understood and Met Changed Practices Accommodate Diversity Flexible Career Policies

11. The Team • 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

12. Four Elements of Project CEOS • Quarterly: leadership training for deans and department chairs • Monthly: peer mentoring for women leaders in the STEM Colleges • Year 2: Project REACH – commercializing your research • 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!

13. Project REACH: our signature program • 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.

14. US Department of Commerce Press Release • U.S. Commerce Secretary announced on 9/24/09 plans to create a new Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurshipwithin 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

15. Internal Advisory Committee • 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

16. External Advisory Committee • 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

17. Campus Partners • University Communications • STEM Abilities Grant • The Women’s Place – PPLI, HERS, various workshops • Chairs Collaborating with Chairs • Work Life – Office of Human Resources • OSU Child Care Center • Academic Leader Development series • President’s Council on Women – policy related • Institutional Research & Planning • Project GRO (Grants Research Outreach) • Technology Licensing & Commercialization • Center for Entrepreneurship • Fisher College of Business • Office of Research • TechColumbus

19. The College of Engineering • 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

20. Number of Tenured/TT Women Faculty in ENG Source: ASEE, “By the Numbers”, 2008

21. "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best is today“ —Ancient Chinese proverb Thank you!