HR: 0800h
AN: ED11B-0472    [Abstracts]
TI: Lessons Learned About Recruiting and Retention of a Diverse Faculty During 5 Years of the University of Michigan ADVANCE Program
AU: * Mukasa, S B
EM: mukasa@umich.edu
AF: University of Michigan, Dept. Geological Sciences 2534 C. C. Little Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
AU: STRIDE COMMITTEE, U
EM: advanceproject@umich.edu
AF: University of Michigan, ADVANCE at the University of Michigan, 1136 Lane Hall, 204 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
AB: The University of Michigan obtained funding from the NSF ADVANCE Program for 2001-2006 to devise and implement strategies to improve representation and climate for its tenure-track women faculty in the natural sciences departments and the College of Engineering. This project was launched with a campus-wide survey to pinpoint problem areas, followed by the appointment of a committee of senior faculty now known as "Science and Technology Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence" or STRIDE to provide information and advice about practices that will maximize the likelihood that well-qualified female and minority candidates for faculty positions will be identified, and, if selected for offers, recruited, retained, and promoted. This presentation will review the lessons learned and progress made during the 5-year period of NSF funding which ended in December 2006. It will also cover the steps taken to institutionalize the UM ADVANCE Program with financial support from the Provost's Office for the next 5 years, and the challenges and opportunities presented by Michigan's Proposition 2 to ban Affirmative Action programs. In its present form, the UM ADVANCE Program now has the mandate to address issues concerning both gender and underrepresented minorities, and also to engage all academic departments in the University, not only those in the STEM fields. As a result, the acronym STRIDE has been changed to mean Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence. A case will be made that the institutional transformations underway at UM allow greater administrative success, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities.
DE: 0855 Diversity
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting