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Cultural Change
Cultural Change is a critical issue if we wish to see long-term institutional change. In order to affect cultural change, UW ADVANCE believes in creating ownership by and opportunities for faculty at all levels. Our vision includes
- Building collegial relationships within each department that foster the productivity of its faculty, staff, and students
- Fostering departmental ownership for cultural change
- Capitalizing on insights from leadership development program to support cultural change efforts
Department Transformation Grants
Cross-Department Cultural Change Program
Departmental Transformation Grants
In response to feedback from department chairs regarding low numbers of women and minority faculty, and requests for suggestions on improving unit culture, the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change announces the Department Transformation Grant. This initiative is modeled after the University of Michigan's ADVANCE Departmental Transformation Grants.
Funds are available to help support departments interested in pursuing issues of improving departmental culture. Proposals must address BOTH creating opportunities for women and minorities AND departmental cultural change.
More information regarding this initiative including proposal requirements and examples of funded abstracts can be found at the RFP website.
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Cross-Department Cultural Change Program
With the help of ADVANCE Visiting Scholar Christopher J. Loving, ADVANCE has created a cross-department cultural change program in which groups of faculty from several ADVANCE departments have an opportunity to build personal leadership skills and work on a department-specific cultural change project. The Program is designed to help departments enrich communication, enhance collaboration, seek and utilize diversity more effectively, and improve faculty recruitment and retention. Click here for a brochure describing the Program. An overview of the program was given at the Spring 2004 Leadership Workshop and at the National ADVANCE Conference at GATech in April 2004. The paper "The Cross-Department Cultural Change Program at the University of Washington" was presented at the National ASEE conference in Portland, Oregon in June 2005, and was selected as a finalist for the ASEE Women in Engineering Best Paper Award.
For more information, contact Joyce Yen, ADVANCE Program/Research Manager.
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Faculty Recruitment Toolkit
The Faculty Recruitment Toolkit, which was written and compiled on behalf of the University of Washington's President's Advisory Committee on Women (PACW), contains concrete suggestions for recruiting a diverse applicant pool. The toolkit offers tips for each phase of the recruitment and search process. contains concrete suggestions for recruiting a diverse applicant pool.Moreover, as ensuring that the applicant pool includes women and persons from underrepresented groups is a major responsibility of the faculty search committee, the toolkit also provides suggestions related to search committee practices and campus visits which will help departments identify and recruit stellar candidates from diverse backgrounds. Click here to view the Faculty Recruitment Toolkit.
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Faculty Retention Toolkit
Faculty retention is as critical as recruitment to the health of a University department. In the past, faculty success has been largely viewed as an individual accomplishment. However, it is now generally acknowledged that what may seem like an individual accomplishment is often the result of subtle, yet vital forms of support. Unfortunately, not all faculty, in particular, women and underrepresented minorities, have had access to certain resources and support which can have a significant impact on their ability to succeed. Even greater faculty success will result if resources are equitably shared with all faculty. Since faculty replacement costs tend to be much higher than retention costs, faculty retention is as important for economic reasons as it is for departmental morale.
This faculty retention toolkit was written to assist Department Chairs in retaining their faculty across all ranks. Included in the toolkit are ways to improve faculty's experiences and strategies for retaining outstanding faculty. The toolkit can be downloaded as a Word document or viewed online.
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Last Updated: July 07, 2005
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