Leading to excellence Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State Mary C. Juhas, Ph.D Program Director 1

Leading to excellence Context: The ADVANCE program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Our project: CEOS Our campus partners 2

Leading to excellence The National Science Foundation an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" annual budget of about $6.9 B (FY 2010) funding source for ~20 % of all federally supported basic research conducted by America’s colleges and universities 3 Arlington, VA

Leading to excellence NSF Plan for Broadening Participation Prepare a diverse globally engaged STEM workforce. Expand efforts to broaden participation from underrepresented groups and diverse institutions in all NSF activities. Integrate research with education, and building capacity. Improve processes to recruit and select highly qualified panel reviewers. 4

Leading to excellence Goal: to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic STEM careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce. Institutional Transformation (IT) – include innovative systemic organizational approaches to comprehensively transform institutions in ways that will increase the participation and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. – must include a research component designed to study the effectiveness of the proposed innovations in order to contribute to the knowledge base informing academic institutional transformation 5 The NSF ADVANCE Program

Leading to excellence OSU ADVANCE Funding: $3.6M, 5-year grant starting Sept. ’08 49 ADVANCE IT institutions; 5 in the Big Ten, 3 in Ohio (OSU, CWRU, and Wright State) – 22 active – 27 “graduated” but many have continued support. 6

Leading to excellence 7 Improve recruitment and retention of women & minority faculty Improve diversity of faculty & students Establish a pool of senior women available for leadership positions ADVANCE: Expected Benefits

Leading to excellence Natural & Mathematical Sciences Engineering Veterinary Medicine Participating Colleges

Leading to excellence 9 Representation of Women Faculty in 2007 CollegeAsst ProfAssoc ProfProfTotal N of Faculty CBS39.1%23.7%17.1%25.5%102 MAPS37.8%14.8%6.3%13.3%225 ENG26.8%19.3%5.4%12.8%272 VET44.4%33.3%20.0%27.1%70 All OSU40.8%34.6%18.2%30.6%3477

Leading to excellence 10 Transformational Leadership Vision of Support and Inclusiveness Individual Needs Understood and Met Flexible Career Policies Cultural Assumptions Questioned and Shifted Changed Practices Accommodate Diversity Transformational Leadership Model

Leading to excellence Joan Herbers, PI: Natural & Mathematical Sciences Jill Bystydzienski, co-PI: Women’s Studies Anne Carey, co-PI: Natural & Mathematical Sciences Anand Desai, co-PI: Glenn School of Public Policy Anne Massaro, co-PI (0.5 FTE): Human Resources Carolyn Merry, co-PI: Engineering Jean Sander, co-PI: Veterinary Medicine Susan Williams, co-PI: Vice Provost for Academic Policy and Faculty Resources and Professor of English Mary Juhas, Program Director (0.5 FTE): Engineering Administrative Associate: Pamela Clark GRAs: Samantha Howe & Jennifer Lang 11 The Team

Leading to excellence Four Elements of Project CEOS 1.Quarterly: leadership training for deans and department chairs 2.Monthly: peer mentoring for women leaders in the STEM Colleges 3.Year 2: Project REACH – commercializing your research 4.Year 3: action learning teams that include deans, chairs, faculty and staff in the participating Colleges and beyond IMPORTANT: Facilitated by experts and continually assessed!

Leading to excellence Began with a needs assessment of women faculty Prestige in participating: nomination from dean & tuition paid by the College Four-workshop series in WI and SP quarters 2010 – Visioning Social Impact from Research – Building Awareness & Skills for Collaboration – Capitalizing on OSU Tech Transfer Resources – Stepping Out & Building a Network for Impact We will take this on the road to help other institutions. 13 Project REACH: our signature program

Leading to excellence U.S. Commerce Secretary announced on 9/24/09 plans to create a new Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within the Department of Commerce and launch a National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Both new initiatives will help leverage the entire federal government on behalf of promoting entrepreneurship in America. …will be geared toward the first step in the business cycle: moving an idea from someone's imagination, or from a research lab, into a business plan 14 US Department of Commerce Press Release

Leading to excellence Hazel Morrow-Jones: Director of The Women’s Place Glenda La Rue: Director, Women in Engineering Program (ENG) Jean Schelhorn: Associate Vice President, Office of Technology Licensing & Commercialization Michael Camp: Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Georgina Dodge: Office of Minority Affairs Brenda Brueggemann: Program Coordinator, Disability Studies Program Julie Carpenter-Hubin: Director, Institutional Research & Planning Mary Juhas, ex officio 15 Internal Advisory Committee

Leading to excellence Dr. Joseph Alutto, Provost and Executive Vice President (chair) Dr. Sharon Bird: Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, Iowa State, co-PI on ISU’s ADVANCE project Dr. Carolyn Mahoney: President of Lincoln University, Missouri Dr. Farah Majidzadeh: CEO of Resource International, an engineering consulting firm in Columbus Dr. Sue Rosser: Provost, San Francisco State University 16 External Advisory Committee

Leading to excellence 1.University Communications 2.STEM Abilities Grant 3.The Women’s Place – PPLI, HERS, various workshops 4.Chairs Collaborating with Chairs 5.Work Life – Office of Human Resources 6.OSU Child Care Center 7.Academic Leader Development series 8.President’s Council on Women – policy related 9.Institutional Research & Planning 10.Project GRO (Grants Research Outreach) 11.Technology Licensing & Commercialization 12.Center for Entrepreneurship 13.Fisher College of Business 14.Office of Research 15.TechColumbus 17 Campus Partners

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Leading to excellence 42/265 women faculty = 15.8% – Includes 16 from Knowlton School of Architecture, KSA – 26 women faculty excluding KSA = 11% – 14 assistant, 16 associate, 13 full professors Quarterly luncheons for women faculty in the executive board room of Pfahl Hall – The dean sometimes attends. – President Gee joined us last year and asked to be invited again. Monthly happy hours at the Blackwell 19 The College of Engineering

Leading to excellence 20 Source: ASEE, “By the Numbers”, 2008 Number of Tenured/TT Women Faculty in ENG

Leading to excellence THANK YOU! 21 "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best is today“ —Ancient Chinese proverb