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Faculty Recruitment and Retention

Faculty Recruitment Toolkit

Search Committees and Faculty Recruitment

Michigan STRIDE (Science and Technology Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence)
Faculty Search Committee Resources PDF
Checklist of Best Practices PDF
Job Advertising Resources (various diversity websites) PDF
Faculty Hiring: Diversity and Excellence Go Hand-in-Hand (practical advice for identifying excellent and diverse faculty) PDF --
University of Wisconsin's "Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions" handout PDF

Faculty Retention Toolkit (Word) (HTML)

2009 On-Ramp Into Academia, Transitioning Women from Industry into Academia

Resources from the National Workshop, Summer 2004

Benefits and Resources for New Faculty

ADVANCE's Recommendations to Chairs for Facilitating Dual Career Hires

Mid-Level Transitions: Associate to Full Professor PDF

Faculty Professional Development Opportunities PDF

Resources from Quarterly Workshops

Professional Development Consultants/Promotion and Tenure

Taking the Leadership Plunge

Notes on Faculty Recruitment from the National Academy of Engineering's Leveraging Experience to Accelerate Progress (LEAP) conference, January 2003 -- PDF

NSF's A Guide For Proposal Writing

University of California "Affirmative Action Guidelines for Recruitment and Retention of Faculty"

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Work/Life Issues

Information about childcare and eldercare options can be found at the UW Work/Life website:

Nanny Share Network.
The Nanny Share Network is available for UW faculty, staff, and students to connect with other University of Washington families who are interested in sharing a nanny. This free service has been developed by UW Benefits & Work/Life.

Caregiver Directory.
The UW Caregiver Directory provides UW faculty, staff, and students access to a pool of University affiliated individuals who are seeking employment as caregivers. This can take many forms: caring for a child, an elderly person, a family member with special needs, running errands, or doing chores. The Caregiver Directory registers those individuals who are seeking full-time, part-time, short-term, or intermittent care giving employment.

Tender Loving Care at Virginia Mason.
TLC Sick childcare is for children who are mildly ill. The University underwrites the entire daily fee for UW benefits eligible employees working .50 FTE or more and academic student employees. Families pay only a one-time registration fee of $5 per child. Children ages one to 12 years with a variety of illnesses may use this service.

Work/Life Resource Center.
UW Benefits & Work/Life provides information, resources and programs for family and personal needs including parenting, elder care, employee assistance, wellness and more. The center serves faculty, staff and students with books, pamphlets and brochures, videos and computers.

Work/Life Presentations & Conversations.
Join us for free lunchtime seminars featuring excellent speakers covering relevant topics.

National Work & Family Month, October 2008.
UW celebrates National Work and Family Month.

Family Caregiver Network.
An informal, confidential, guided discussion where caregivers can share their experiences and successes. Drop-ins are welcome. Last Tuesday of each month, noon to 1:00 p.m., Work/Life Resource and Learning Center, 4045 Brooklyn NE, Room 31.

Lactation Stations.
If you are a breast-feeding mother, and attending school or working at the UW, you'll be glad to know about the many on-site lactation stations. While it may be hard to leave your baby, it should be easy to maintain your milk supply with the hospital-quality, electric double pumps available for your use at the stations. Most women find it takes less than 15 minutes to express their milk. Some of the lactation stations also provide privacy for mothers who have their own hand- or battery-operated pumps. ADVANCE runs a lactation station in Sieg Hall room 121 for ADVANCE students, faculty, and staff. To use the Medela Symphony pump available in the room, you need to obtain a user kit. Details can be found here.

Seig Hall room 121 is available 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The room is secured 24 hours/day with a digital keypad. Open time slots may be viewed using the online calendar system. Please contact sieg121@u.washington.edu to schedule your time slots and an orientation. During your orientation, you will be asked to review and sign the Lactation Station Agreement. Locker space is available on a first come first serve basis. For more information, please see http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/worklife/childcare/lactation-stations.html

The ADVANCE lactation calendar can be found at: http://www.engr.washington.edu/advance/lactationroom.html

UW Carelink.
UW CareLink, the University's Employee Assistance Program (EAP), is available for all benefits-eligible faculty and staff, their families, and household members. In addition to providing confidential counseling at no cost for up to three sessions per concern, legal and financial services are also available for up to 30 minutes per issue. UW CareLink offers critical incident assistance and debriefing, workshops, training, newsletters, and online resources. To make an appointment, call toll-free at 1-866-598-3978 or for 24-hour crisis services call 1-800-833-3031.

Flexible Work Arrangements.
Flexible Work Arrangements is one of the many tools available to help employees blend their work and personal lives. Alternative and flexible work schedules or work plans represent ways to structure work that units can use to either accommodate UW staff preference, or to deal with a unit's unique work requirements.

UW Children's Center.
The three University of Washington Children's Centers provide on-site infant, toddler and preschool care for University of Washington families. The centers are open year-round and serve faculty, staff, and students with differing levels of enrollment priority. The Children's Center at West Campus serves primarily UW Faculty and Staff, while the Children's Centers at Radford Court and Laurel Village give priority to UW Students in Family Housing. All centers are fully enrolled at this time, and it is recommended that a wait list application be submitted as soon as possible. New faculty may sign up on the UW Children's Centers waitlists as soon as they have accepted their faculty position offer. New faculty should fill it out as much of the form as they can and include a note saying that they haven't received their UW ID yet. They may also wish to include a copy of their letter accepting UW's offer.

Programs and Services for Kids on Campus

Temporary drop-off daycare is available at:
Trettin Drop-in Preschool, 4515 16th Ave. NE, in University Congregational Church, (206) 729-3723.
Whirlwinds, Breeze-In Drop-Off Child Care, 4516 Union Bay Place, (206) 729-WIND (9463).

Helpful articles:

The final report to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation "Exploring Part-Time Tenure Track at the University of Washington" is available.

An article from this research entitled "Family-Friendly Policies and the Research University" is in the special edition of Academe, "Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work."

A Colleague-to-Colleague Handbook for Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption issues for Faculty Members at WPI (great tips for faculty who are becoming parents for the first time)

(posted 4/17/2009) Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know

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Mentoring and Professional Development Resources

Building Successful Large-Scale Initiatives Workshop 4/12/07
Matt O'Donnell's Presentation PDF
Larry Dalton's Presentation PDF

A Sample Mentoring Contract PDF
by LeAnn Talbot and Dan Hodge, AT&T Broadband

Faculty-Graduate Mentoring Program

Mentoring Women Faculty Activities

Mentoring Pre-Tenure Faculty Activities

Faculty Professional Development Activities (posted 9/15/05)

• CoE Promotion to Full workshop - Santosh Devasia's talk
• CoE Promotion to Full workshop - Expectations for Promotion to Full (DRAFT document put together by ADVANCE)

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Post Doctoral and New Faculty (the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Power Bases of Faculty Supervisors and Educational Outcomes for Graduate Students PDF
by Aguinis et al, 1996

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Other ADVANCE Resources

ADVANCE Program

UW ADVANCE Program Results (September 2007) PDF
UW ADVANCE Overview (October 2006) PDF
Poster Highlighting UW ADVANCE Activities PDF (updated May 12, 2005)
Powerpoint Presentation of ADVANCE Overview PDF (updated March 2004)
UW ADVANCE Third-Year Site Visit Materials (June 29-30, 2004)
Full Proposal (2000) PDF
List of Interesting References to Women in Science Literature
UW ADVANCE NEWSLETTER (October 2003) PDF
(to receive a hard copy, send your name and mailing address to Joyce Yen, joyceyen@u.washington.edu)

Papers

Leadership Development

"Leadership Development Workshops for Department Chairs: A Model for Enabling Family-Friendly Cultural Change"
by Kate Quinn, Joyce W. Yen, Sheila Edwards Lange, Eve A. Riskin, and Sheila Edwards Lange. Change Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 4 (July/August 2007) pg. 42-47

"Poster: Leadership Workshops to Effect Cultural Change" PDF
by Eve A. Riskin, Sheila Edwards Lange, Kate Quinn, Joyce W. Yen, Suzanne Brainard. National Academies Convocation on Biological, Social, and Organizational Contributions to Science and Engineering, December 9, 2005

"Leadership Development Workshops for Department Chairs" PDF
by Joyce W. Yen, Sheila Edwards Lange, Eve A. Riskin, and Denice Denton, Proceedings of the 2004 WEPAN Conference.

Mentoring

"The ADVANCE Mentoring-for-Leadership Lunch Series for Women Faculty in STEM at the University of Washington" PDF
by Joyce W. Yen, Kate Quinn, Coleen Carrigan, Elizabeth Litzler, and Eve A. Riskin. accepted to Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2007

"Mentoring of Graduate Students in STEM: Perceptions and Outcomes" PDF
by A. Wheeless, B. Blaser, and E. Litzler. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting Proceedings, March 13, 2007

"Enhanced Connections: Making Changes to Mentoring Programs for Science and Engineering Graduate Students" PDF
$ by A. Wheeless, B. Blaser, and Elizabeth Litzler. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Meeting Proceedings, March 13, 2007`

"ADVANCE Mentoring Programs for Women Faculty in SEM at the University of Washington" PDF
Joyce Yen, Kate Quinn, Sheila Edwards Lange, Eve Riskin, Denice Denton American Society for Engineering Education Conference, June 2005

"Mentoring for Academic Leadership: Career Paths and Choices"
Denice D. Denton. PAESMEM/Stanford School of Engineering Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering, June 2004

"Mentoring Programs at the University of Washington"
Suzanne G. Brainard. PAESMEM/Stanford School of Engineering Workshop on Mentoring in Engineering, June 2004

Cultural Change and Policy

"Working at a Family Friendly University"
by Eve A. Riskin. Association of American Colleges and Universities, On Campus With Women, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2007

"AC2007-1172: Five Years Later: The Institutionalization and Sustainability of ADVANCE"" PDF
by Elizabeth Litzler, Catherine Claiborne, and Suzanne Brainard. American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2007

"Demystifying Family-Friendly Policies for Faculty: Resources For Department Chairs" PDF
by Joyce W. Yen, Kate Quinn, Eve A. Riskin.

"The Cross-Department Cultural Change Program (CDCCP) at the University of Washington" PDF
Joyce Yen and Christopher Loving American Society for Engineering Education Conference, June 2005

"Family-Friendly Policies and the Research University"
Kate Quinn, Sheila Edwards Lange, S.G. Olswang. by Academe 90(6),32-34, 2004

"Part-time Tenure-Track Policies: Assessing Utilization" PDF
by Kate Quinn, Sheila Edwards Lange, and Eve A. Riskin. Proceedings of the 2004 WEPAN Conference.

Recruitment and Retention

"Toolkits for Retention and Recruitment: Utilization and Outcomes" PDF
Sheila Edwards Lange and Joyce Yen. American Society for Engineering Education Conference, June 2005

Transitional Support

"Supporting Faculty during Times of Transition" PDF
by Eve A. Riskin, Sheila Edwards Lange, Kate Quinn, Joyce W. Yen, Suzanne Brainard. forthcoming in the volume, Learning from Advance, to be published by University of Michigan Press, 2005

"Implementing a Transitional Support Program" PDF
by Sheila Edwards Lange, Eve A. Riskin, Suzanne G. Brainard, and Denice Denton, Proceedings of the 2003 WEPAN Conference.

Valerie Young's bibliography on the Imposter Syndrome. (Handout - PDF) (Handout - Word)

Research on Student Ratings of STEM Women Faculty

Student Ratings of Women Faculty by Angela Linse PDF
Student Ratings of Women Faculty: Data and Strategies PDF

ADVANCE Mini-PI Meeting (February 12, 2004)

Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Science and Engineering
by Maureen Byko, April 2005 issue of JOM.

ADVANCE PI Meeting Presentations by the University of Washington (May 19-20, 2005)

• Working with Department Chairs at the University of Washington
• Climate and Culture Change at the University of Washington

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