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Leadership Development Opportunities for Tenured Faculty
Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Ph.D.Deputy Director, Center for Faculty SuccessMay 18, 2010
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Outline1. Overview of ADVANCE-Purdue2. Leadership Coaching Cohort3. Promoting Women’s Leadership4. Questions
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ADVANCE-Purdue1. Increase the number of women of
color in STEM faculty positions2. Improve the success of all women
STEM faculty3. Engage all faculty in transforming
Purdue4. Integrated Research Team
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Goal 1: Increasing STEM women of color faculty
• Search Chair Workshop on Faculty Hiring
• Presidential ADVANCE Advocate
• Cultural Center Events
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Goal 2: Success of all STEM female faculty
• Mentoring Institute for newly hired faculty
• President’s Luncheons for STEM female faculty
• Work-Life balance workshops• Leadership Development for tenured
faculty• STEM female faculty of color group
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Goal 3: Educate all faculty• Diversity Catalyst Program• Department Head workshops• Gender and Science Seminar Series
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Integrated Research Team• Institutional Ethnography Study– Tenure and Promotion Policies– Family Leave Policy
• Academic Career Pathways Study– Looking for a new metaphor to better describe
the career paths of women, and women of color in particular
• Results from the research will be used to improve programming and inform university policies
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Goal 2 Program:Leadership Coaching Cohort
Motivation:• A lot of energy is spent getting faculty
tenured and then they are left on their own• No formal mentoring programs for tenured
faculty• Senior faculty do not know what
leadership opportunities are available• They want to get into leadership but don’t
know how to get there
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Leadership Coaching CohortMany successful women in academia, industry and government state that the coaching they received played an important role in their success.
Purdue President France Córdova
College of Engineering Dean Leah Jamieson
Female STEM FacultyProfessors 11%
Associate Professors 19%Assistant Professors 28%
Department Heads: 5 / 35Center Directors 2 / 13
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Leadership Coaching Cohort
Susan Bulkeley Butler
Dedicating her efforts to advancing the careers of women and women’s leadership
www.sbbinstitute.org
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Leadership Coaching CohortLogistics:• open to tenured female STEM faculty• limited to 10 women per cohort• meet once/month for 2 hours• group coaching / personal coaching• pre and post evaluation each AY• goal is for the cohorts to continue year
to year
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Leadership Coaching Cohort
Cohort One:• 7 women• 3 Full Professors• 4 Associate Professors• Representing the
Colleges of Engineering, Science, Technology, Agriculture
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What do you hope to gain?• Learn leadership skills for a business setting• I would like to continue to improve myself -- both by
learning new skills and developing existing ones -- especially in the area of leadership.
• I hope to find a mentor that I can turn when I need professional advice.
• I would like to discuss the dos and don'ts of interacting with administrators.
• Skills for effective management and leadership• Time to think about my career. In our fast paced lives, I
do not think as often as I should about my career• Ultimately, I would like to have a clear career matrix that
helps to prioritize my decisions.
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What topics would you like to discuss?
• Dealing with uneven distribution of workload and allocated resources
• Saying ‘no’ nicely• Gender equality• How to get
promoted
• Managing difficult people
• Leadership• Showing vision, while
still managing current challenges
• Prioritizing • Negotiating position
and raise
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What skills/resources are important to your future success?
• Need leadership and organizational skills• Improve effective public speaking and public
image • Gaining peer support, acceptance, and
respect• Ability to recognize political and critical
issues • Obtaining funds for career improvement• Skills for managing personal and
professional lives
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Leadership Coaching Cohort• “Make things happen for you, don't just
let them happen to you” --Susan B. Butler• Make-It-Happen Model, a framework
based on her consulting experienceswith Fortune 500 companies.– Create your vision– Build your team– Develop your plan – Navigate your journey
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Leadership Coaching Cohort• Post-assessment for cohort I in
progress• Fall 2010– Cohort I will continue– Expanding to add a second cohort of
female STEM faculty– Adding a cohort of female non-faculty
STEM PhD directors/administrators
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Education
Promoting Women’s Leadership
Leadership Coaching
Cohort
Educate Deans and Department Heads
Database
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Promoting Women’s Leadership
• Mentoring Institute– Develop cohort early– Provide strategies and resources for
success
• Diversity Catalyst Program– Trained in the literature and promote
diversity across campus
• Training for Deans and Department Heads
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Questions?
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