PowerPoint Presentation Assessing And Improving The Progress Of Women Faculty At CASE: ACES Program

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Resource Equity Committee Case Studies
Committee Members Diana Bilimoria, Nahida
Gordon, Patricia Higgins, Xiangfen Liang, Susan
Perry, Eleanor Stoller, Cyrus Taylor
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Vignette One

• A third-year faculty member observes that
  distribution of resources (e.g., space
  allocation, course release time) has been the
  focus of continuous, divisive complaints in your
  department.
• After discussions with you, the Chair, the
  faculty member proposes a faculty committee that
  will decide all issues related to allocation of
  faculty and student office and laboratory space.
• You, as a Chair, agree that this is a good idea
  and bring up this faculty members idea at the
  next faculty meeting. Two senior people, however,
  are openly antagonistic and resistant to
• this suggestion.

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Questions for Discussion

• What are the issues that you see are facing you
  as the department chair?
• Who will you talk to?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• What are the implications for you as the leader
  of the department?
• What are the next steps that you will take?

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Vignette Two

• A junior faculty woman in your department
  confides that despite her accomplishments in
  teaching and research, she feels that she is a
  peripheral member of the department, relegated to
  secondary status in university and departmental
  interactions.
• She provides examples of positive interactions at
  national meetings (including increasing
  recognition for her scholarship) and
  disconcerting interactions in her department to
  illustrate her belief that she is better known
  and respected outside the university than in my
  own backyard.

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Questions for Discussion

• What are the issues that you see are facing you
  as the department chair?
• Who will you talk to?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• What are the implications for you as the leader
  of the department?
• What are the next steps that you will take?

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