Campus Climate

The Campus Climate initiative focuses on the institution and its leaders by providing educational programs for deans and chairs/heads that enhance their skills to lead the transformation of the campus climate:

• Academic administrator workshops
• Gender equity awareness workshops
• FORWARD Allies/Advocates
• Departmental Advance FORWARD Award
• Climate and gender equity research grants
• Faculty recruitment program
• Commission on the Status of Women Faculty
• Climate Workshops

Faculty Advancement & Leadership

The Faculty Advancement and Leadership initiative focuses on the professional development of women faculty through a comprehensive mentoring program, research support, and leadership training opportunities.  These professional development components are designed to help women advance in faculty rank from assistant to associate and from associate to full:

• Academic Administrator Workshops
• Course release program
• General Advancement and Leadership Workshops
• Junior faculty mentoring cohorts program
• Mid-career peer mentoring program
• Leap Lab Renovation grant program
• Leap research grant program
• Leadership development program
• Promotion to Professor Task Force and Panels
• Women with Disabilities Task Force
• Travel grants

Research

The Research initiative studies program effectiveness and explores research questions related to:

• How unstructured space become authorized and recognized
• Interventions into climate; allies and administrator training
• Role of critical mass in climate
• Programs to recruit, retain and advance women faculty
• The relationship between gender and producivity
• Mentoring, reverse mentoring

• Funding Opportunities