Annual Report for the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

Developing Diverse Departments at North Carolina State University

Year 2: July30, 2009 – July 30, 2010

Table of Contents

Project Overview……………………………………………………………………….3

Project Participants……………………………………………………………………..3

Activities and Findings…………………………………………………………………5

Training and Development……………………………………………………………..16

Outreach Activities…………………………………………………………………….. 16

Contributions……………………………………………………………………………17

Tables…………………………………………………………………………………….17

Appendix…………..…………………………………………………………………….44

Project Overview

The mission of the ADVANCE Developing Diverse Departments (D3) is to diversify the university professoriate and to create an inclusive climate that promotes the success of all faculty, with a specific emphasis on women and minority faculty at North CarolinaStateUniversity. Towards this end, the D3 program utilizes several different workshops and programs to achieve these goals: 1. ADVANCE Scholars, 2. Leadership Development Workshops, 3. Climate Workshops for Department Heads, and, 4. Annual Retreat.

Participants

1. What people have worked on your project?

The NC State Developing Diverse Departments (D3) ADVANCE program is finishing the second year in August 2010, under the direction of theproject and senior leadership team:

Marcia Gumpertz, Principal Investigator and Interim Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusionis responsible for supervising the project coordinator, facilitating the senior personnel meetings, leading the team developing the workshop series for department heads, for data analysis, and spreading the word about the project within NCSU.

More than 160 hours: Y

Margaret E. Daub, Co-Principal Investigator and the head of the department of PlantBiology.

is responsible for interfacing with department heads and senior faculty. She is a member of the design team for the department heads workshop series and participated in all of the D3 components in 2009-10: the leadership development workshop series, the climate workshop series for department heads, and the Senior Leaders ADVANCE Scholars. She will lead the 2010-11 climate workshop series.

More than 160 hours: Y

Laura Severin, Co-Principal Investigator andProfessor of English, developed and led both the Emerging Leaders ADVANCE Scholars seminars and the Leadership Development Workshop Series.

More than 160 hours: Y

Daniel Solomon, Co-Principal Investigator and Dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences serves as a senior advisor and is responsible for promoting the ADVANCE project within NC State by inviting faculty members to apply to the ADVANCE program and interfacing with deans, department heads and senior faculty.

More than 160 hours: N

Mary Wyer, Co-Principal Investigator and Interim Associate Dean for Research, Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Women and Gender Studies, is responsible for leading seminars and activities for the ADVANCE Scholars. Co-PI Wyer oversees the development of the Senior Leader ADVANCE Scholar seminars, conducts the seminars, and oversees the ADVANCE Scholar projects.

More than 160 hours: Y

Ming Shi Trammel, Developing Diverse Departments Project Coordinator, is responsible for developing and organizing project activities and events, assisting ADVANCE Scholars in implementing their projects, assisting co-PIs with research and preparation for ADVANCE Scholar seminars and for the workshop series, scheduling and planning meetings and workshops, data collection and analysis, and drafting annual and interim reports.

More that 160 hours: Y

Rebecca Brent, Project Evaluator, is responsible for developing the evaluation plan, attending leadership meetings, and providing process feedback to the leadership team. She also provides evaluation for both workshop series, the ADVANCE Scholars component, and the retreat, and handles all aspects of the department head workshop series related to the climate survey.

More than 160 hours:Y

Jennifer Schneider, Post-Doc, works half-time and is responsible for offering research assistance to ADVANCE projects.

More than 160 hours:N

Senior Personnel

The team of senior personnel guide and advise the ADVANCE project. This team includes the members listed below:

Betsy Brown, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. She is a member of the design team for the department heads workshop series and the leadership development workshop series and helps facilitate both of these workshops.

Barbara Carroll, Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources

Jo-Ann Cohen, Associate Dean, College of Physical and Math Sciences.

Karen Helm, University Planning and Analysis Director.

Larry Nielsen, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Professor.

Fay Cobb Payton, College of Management, Associate Professor of Information Systems.

Joanne Woodard, Office for Equal Opportunity, Vice Provost for Equal Opportunity and Equity

Advisory Committees

Advisory Committee of Development of Department Heads, Deans and Center Directors

Nina Allen, Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology

Stephanie Curtis, Professor of Genetics and Director of Academic Programs

Louis Martin-Vega, Dean, College of Engineering

Thomas Easley, Director of Community for Diversity, College of Natural Resources

Sastry Pantula, Head, Department of Statistics

Advisory Committee on Development of Women and Faculty of Color as Emerging Leaders

Helen Zhang, Associate Professor, Statistics

Karen Daniels, Assistant Professor, Physics

Heidi Grappendorf, Assistant Professor, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

Cheryl Brown, Professor of Political Science, UNC Charlotte

Christine Grant, College of Engineering Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Special Initiatives, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Hatice Orun Ozturk, Teaching Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2. What other organizations have been involved as partners?

We are continuing to collaborate with AWIS to fund and to bring in speakersto campus.

3. Have you had other collaborators or contacts?

Cheryl Brown, Professor of Political Science, UNC Charlotte, serves on the Developing Diverse Departments Advisory Committee on Development of Women and Faculty of Color as Emerging Leaders.

Thomas Conway, Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff, FayettevilleStateUniversity, served as a panelist for the Leadership Development Workshop Series.

Sarah Rajala, Dean and Professor, Bagley College of Engineering, at MississippiStateUniversity, gave the keynote address at the Developing Diverse Departments annual retreat.

Jeff Russell, Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, served as guest facilitator for the first workshop in the Climate Workshop Series for department heads.

Kathleen Sturgis, president of Capital Consulting Group, is an expert in organizational development and interpersonal and group communication. She facilitated the discussionat the Developing Diverse Departments annual retreat on assessing the goals and objectives of the program and how ADVANCE participants can help the program move towards achieving the programmatic goals of creating a diverse and inclusive climate.

Coordinator’s Group

Ming Trammel, Project Coordinator, attends quarterly conference call meetings with ADVANCE coordinators and project directors from around the country.

Activities and Findings

1. Describe the major research and education activities of the project.

Meetings with Campus Groups

Deans and Department Heads. PI Marcia Gumpertz met with the deans and department heads of the following colleges during 2009-10 to describe the ADVANCE Developing Diverse Departments project: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Design, College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Natural Resources, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine.

NC State Faculty Developers Collaboration group. Ming Trammel, D3 program coordinator, participated and presented at a meeting with the NC State Faculty Developers Collaboration group. This group, led by Senior Personnel Member Betsy Brown, aims to cross-promote NC State’s faculty programs and initiatives and to develop new programming that draws on the combined expertise on campus to meet the needs of faculty. During this meeting, information was shared to encourage faculty members to consider participating in the ADVANCE Leadership and Department Head Workshops.

College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PAMS) Female Faculty. PI Marcia Gumpertz presented information about the D3 project and findings at a lunchtime gathering of the female faculty in PAMS.

ADVANCE Scholars

The D3 ADVANCE Scholars program is comprised of two groups of faculty members: (1) Eight full professors and department heads called the Senior Leaders (SL), and (2) nine assistant and associate professors called the Emerging Leaders (EL) group. SL and EL ADVANCE scholars are listed below:

EL ADVANCE Scholars

Maria Correa, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, Curriculum and Instruction, Associate Professor

Joel Ducoste, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor

Julie Earp, Business Management, Associate Professor

Heidi Grappendorf, Parks Recreation and Tourism Management, Assistant Professor

Amy Grunden, Microbiology, Associate Professor

Wendy Krause, Textile Engineering Chemistry and Science, Associate Professor

Kara Peters, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Associate Professor

Traciel Reid, Public & International Affairs, Associate Professor

SL ADVANCE Scholars

Robin Abrams, Architecture, Professor and Head

Ruth Chabay, Physics, Professor

Christine Grant, College of Engineering, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Special Initiatives and Professor of Chemical Engineering

Karla Henderson, Parks Recreation and Tourism Management, Professor

Thomas Schaefer, Physics, Professor

Paola Sztajn, Elementary Education, Professor

Ken Zagacki, Communication, Professor and Head

Margo Daub, Plant Biology, William Neal Reynolds Professor & Department Head

EL and SL faculty members, also known as ADVANCE scholars, have made a commitment to meet each month as a group for three years, to develop a depth of knowledge concerning social biases in hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. Each monthly session also focused on an increasingly challenging set of readings about social bias and stereotypes (see appendix). ADVANCE scholars’ primary obligations are to participate in the seminars and develop initiatives for their departments/colleges/disciplines as sparked by seminar discussions. ADVANCE scholars are change agents who will play an extraordinarily important role in expanding their colleagues’, departments’, and colleges’ knowledge base about the role unconscious bias may play in faculty hiring, promotions and tenure decisions. The ADVANCE Scholars are currently developing proposals for their college initiatives. A brief description of proposed scholar projects are listed below:

Establishing a network of support and mentoring for minority students to improve recruitment and retention; increase the diversity of faculty through strategic recruitment
Developing a Department Head Workshop series model for NC State University that is similar to the Wiseli Model
Collection of success stories and strategies from tenured female and minority faculty
Development of “invitational” communication strategies for administrators
Examining (possible) inequities in resources, compensation, and space across the college for women
A peer institutional study of women in business schools
Orientation workshops right before and after reappointment to reestablish peer group time management component in the colleges of Textiles, Physics and Mathematical Sciences, and Engineering.
Exploring perceptions of early career female faculty regarding work-life balance and gender equity issues
Revitalizing Promotion and Tenure for the 21st Century Academic Workforce and Beyond
Hispanic faculty experience in higher education
Determination of best practices for improving institutional diversity hires and retention in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University and a sister peer-institution.

Leadership Development Workshop Series

In Spring 2010, the Developing Diverse Departments project offered a leadership development workshop series for women and faculty of color. The leadership development workshop series consisted of three panel discussions interleaved with three conjoint discussion sessions designed to motivate tenured women and faculty of color to enter into line leadership roles (e.g., department head, center director, dean, provost). Nine senior faculty members (associate professors and above) attended three panel sessions and engaged in three discussion sessions which reviewed readings focused on the themes of each panel (see appendix for the list of readings.) The leadership development workshop series is offered once yearly and each year new faculty members are selected. The list of participating faculty members for this year appears below:

Maxine Atkinson, Sociology and Anthropology, Professor and Head

Anne Baker, English, Associate Professor

Andrea Cardinal, Crop Science, Associate Professor

Lisa Guion, Agricultural and Extension Education, Professor and Interim Assistant Dean for Diversity

H.C. (Sunny) Liu, Animal Science, Associate Professor

Karen Norwood, Math Science and Technology Education, Associate Professor

Maria Oliver-Hoyo, Chemistry, Associate Professor

Tao Pang, Mathematics, Associate Professor

Sheila Smith-McKoy, English, Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies

The expected learning outcomes for faculty participants included increasing their skills in career planning, self-discovery related to becoming a leader, learning more about best practices in increasing diversity, and gave participants the opportunity to engage in discussions with department heads, deans, and university leaders as well as learn about the benefits, challenges, and skills needed in line leadership positions. A brief description of the workshops appears below:

Friday January 15, 2010: Introductory meeting
Wednesday, February 3: Panel with Department Heads: Robin Abrams (Architecture), Margo Daub (Plant Biology) and Sastry Pantula (Statistics), Moderator Betsy Brown
Friday, February 26: Discussion Session
Wednesday, March 10: Panel with Deans: Louis Martin-Vega (Engineering), Jose Picart (Education), and Daniel Solomon (PAMS), Moderator Laura Severin
Friday, March 26: Discussion Session
Wednesday, April 7: Panel with University Leaders: Betsy Brown (Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs), Terri Lomax (Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies), and Thomas Conway (Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff at FayettevilleStateUniversity), Moderator Margo Daub
Friday, April 30: Discussion Session

Department Head Workshop Series

This academic year NC State’s Developing Diverse Departments (D3) project offered a three-session workshop series for department heads. The workshop series focused on cultivating a supportive and inclusive department climate for diverse faculty. The workshop focused on department climate for two reasons:

Overall satisfaction and desire to stay at an institution are strongly related to satisfaction in the department. This is where faculty live and the department is the environment they experience.
Any negative aspects of department climate affect faculty of color and women faculty, those outside the mainstream, more strongly than faculty in majority groups.

The workshop series was based on a model developed by the University of Wisconsin WISELI (Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute) program. Following the WISELI model, the D3 workshops are organized around a climate survey administered to faculty and staff in the departments of participating heads.

The first workshop session took place on November 18, 2009. Jeff Russell, Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was invited to serve as guest facilitator. He gave evidence of substantial change in his own department as a result of participating in this workshop series over a period of 6 years and discussed the impact that department climate has on retention and recruitment of faculty. In the first session faculty participants discussed climate in general, survey findings about the demographics and climate at NC State, and the heads’ perceptions of the climate within their own departments.

The second and third workshops of the series were held in Spring 2010. Between the first and second sessions we administered a survey to department faculty. At the second session each participating department head received the survey results for their department. During this session, Rebecca Brent, the ADVANCE evaluator, discussed how to interpret the results and how the results might be used. In this session, department heads were also given the NC State University’s Department Head’s Climate Resource Guide that was adapted to NC State with permission from WISELI. The Guide contains a compilation of information regarding institutional programs, policies, committees, and offices that support the university’s core mission, along with links to websites and contact information for key personnel ( During the third session, department heads developed action plans to improve the climate in their department, offered reflections on any insights gained from the survey results, and shared suggestions with other chairs on ways to create more inclusive climates.

Participating department heads:

Dorothy Anderson, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

Margaret Daub, Plant Biology

Barry Goldfarb, Forestry and Environmental Resources

Ellen McIntyre, Elementary Education

Eric Miller, Microbiology

Malcolm Roberts, Population Health and Pathobiology

Richard Gould, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Retreat

The D3 Project’s second annual retreat took place on May 4, 2010. The annual retreat provided a touchstone opportunity for EL and SL Scholars to articulate, practice, and present their insights about becoming change agents in a diversifying professoriate. The retreat also created an opportunity for the various groups of the D3 program (e.g., Senior Personnel and Advisory Committee members) and different components of the project (i.e., ADVANCE scholars, Department Head and Leadership Workshop participants) to come together and meet and share program knowledge and experiences. Over 50 faculty, department heads, and administrators participated in the retreat, including ADVANCE Scholars, Leadership Development Workshop participants, Department Head Workshop participants, project senior personnel, members of the two project advisory committees, and several deans and administrators We were pleased that NC State’s chancellor’s wife, Susan Woodson, participated to learn more about the program and to become more familiar with programs and issues for women on campus.