1 Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (IDEAL): A University Partnership Model to Seed Institutional Transformation Diana Bilimoria, Key Bank Professor Amanda Shaffer, Project Director, IDEAL Lynn T. Singer. Deputy Provost and VP for Academic Affairs Case Western Reserve University March 5, 2013

2 Purpose of IDEAL Three year NSF ADVANCE PAID project to stimulate gender and underrepresented minority equity related transformation in each institution at five Northern Ohio research Universities by adapting and disseminating successful mechanisms from CWRU’s ADVANCE IT program, Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (ACES)

3 IDEAL Personnel Diana Bilimoria, PhD Professor of Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University Helen Qammar, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of the Institute for Teaching & Learning, University of Akron Amanda Shaffer, Project Director, Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (IDEAL), Case Western Reserve University Lynn Singer, PhD, Deputy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology, Case Western Reserve University

4 IDEAL Co-Directors Each partner institution is led by a Co-Director Dr. Julie Barnes Dr. Diana Bilimoria, BGSU CWRU Dr. Paul P. Lin Dr. Mary Louise Holly CSU KSU Dr. Helen Qammar Dr. Penny Poplin Gosetti UA UT

5 IDEAL Advisory Board Comprised of the PI, Co-PI’s, Co-Directors and  W. A. "Bud" Baeslack III, Provost and Executive Vice President, CWRU  Melissa Cardenas, PhD, Director, Academic Quality Assurance, Ohio Board of Regents  Byron C. Clayton, MBA, EDM, Vice President, NorTech  Abigail Stewart, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, and Director of the ADVANCE Program at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan

6 IDEAL Objective #1 Objective 1: Create a regional learning community of academic leaders in northern Ohio informed about factors responsible for the underrepresentation of women and minority groups in academic S&E and committed to transforming institutional cultures in S&E disciplines. Strategy: CWRU adapted its successful ACES executive coaching program through leadership development sessions and team coaching.

7 IDEAL Objective #2 Objective 2: Develop a cohort of formal and informal S&E leaders at each partner institution to implement, adapt and sustain customized change initiatives on individual campuses. Strategy: Change Leader Teams identified and implemented annual change projects, and presented their results at the plenary conference. Each change project contributed to institutional transformation around the change theme identified as important for S&E transformation at that university.

8 IDEAL Objective #3 Objective 3: Assemble the senior academic leadership of partner universities to disseminate best practices from ADVANCE institutions, exchange regional institutional research, policies and practices, and evaluate change initiatives. Strategy: To reinforce institutional commitment to change initiatives, the IDEAL plenary conference (9/17/10, 9/16/11 and 10/5/12) were attended by senior university administrators, the Change Leader Teams and national experts to discuss each institution’s transformation efforts.

9 IDEAL Institutional Change Projects and Outcomes Bowling Green State University Case Western Reserve University Cleveland State University Kent State State University University of Akron University of Toledo

10 Bowling Green State University Institutional Transformation Theme: “Build intellectual community and collegiality around diversity and inclusion in STEM to foster recruitment & retention of women students and faculty at BGSU.” Projects:  Year 1 – climate survey and focus groups; created website  Year 2 - analyzed survey; search committee talk on bias  Year 3 – expanded website and blog; surveyed STEM chairs Outcomes: Search committee training and faculty climate survey are being institutionalized. Will submit ADVANCE IT proposal in

11 Case Western Reserve University Institutional Transformation Theme: “Enhancing Collegiality and Inclusion in S&E.” Projects:  Year 1 – Assess faculty development needs by rank in College of Arts and Sciences;  Year 2 – Pilot projects for mentoring new faculty launched in Schools of Management and Engineering  Year 3 – Faculty focus groups on climate survey results to solicit recommendations for improvement in School of Medicine Outcomes: Mentoring in WSOM and Launch Committee in CSE institutionalized. Vice Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity appointed in SOM.

12 Cleveland State University Institutional Transformation Theme: “Encouraging S&E women and URM faculty to actively participate in institutional policy-making committees.” Projects:  Year 1 – Identify barriers to leadership; collect NSF indicators  Year 2 – Explore potential for faculty development and leadership training; offer two faculty development seminars  Year 3 – Submit faculty development center proposal to provost Outcomes: In 2012, Provost approved creation of the Faculty Enrichment and Leadership Center with operating budget and director salary.

13 Kent State University Institutional Transformation Theme: “Enhancing the climate for scholarly and collegial community in the College of Arts and Sciences”. Projects:  Year 1 – A&S climate survey; created website and chair resources  Year 2 – Conducted focus groups; faculty workshops  Year 3 – Continued workshops; submitted ADVANCE IT proposal Outcomes: President created the Presidential Task Force for Women in STEM Education and Research.

14 University of Akron Institutional Transformation Theme: “Faculty Hiring that Makes a Difference” Projects:  Year 1 – Profile UA hiring with IR data and interviews; promotional video about diversity in recruitment  Year 2 – Website of best practices to augment HR training  Year 3 – Diversify candidate pools for Provost’s Strategic Hiring Initiative by providing guidelines for the RFP. Outcomes: Provost’s Strategic Investment Program (150 new interdisciplinary faculty over 10 years) includes “Diversity of people, thoughts, and perspectives must be enhanced.”

15 University of Toledo Institutional Transformation Theme: “Creating a climate for successful retention, tenure, and promotion” Projects:  Year 1 – Climate Survey; propose the Program for the Advancement of Women in STEMM (PAWS)  Year 2 – Train peer-advising teams for associate professors  Year 3 – SOM launches PAWS; ADVANCE IT submitted Outcomes: Provost has a new emphasis on Faculty Development and formed an Advisory Committee on Faculty Development.

16 Evaluation  Data collection and analysis by external evaluator  Leadership Development overall effectiveness ranged from 3.41 – 3.92 out of 4.0 Sample participant learnings:  Change leaders described powerful impacts on their personal and professional development, which they put into practice.  Plenaries were highly valued for effectively sharing best practices and building cross university connections.  Final report available on website

17 Changes in Number of Tenure-Track Faculty Across the 6 IDEAL Universities

18 Changes in Tenure-track Faculty Across the 6 IDEAL Universities

19 Changes in Leadership Positions Across the 6 IDEAL Universities

20 25 out of 62 (56 change leaders and 6 co- directors) were promoted or appointed to roles of leadership within their institutions during or after their participation in IDEAL Changes in Leadership Positions Across the 6 IDEAL Universities

21 Ongoing IDEAL Collaborations  To Tenure and Beyond: Building an Intentional Career in STEM (a Pay it FORWARD award) a career development workshop series for pre-tenure women in STEM from the IDEAL universities. Piloted in 2011, repeated fall of  Partner universities are exploring a potential pilot of a Dual-Career Network for recruitment and retention purposes.  Partner universities submitted an Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF AGEP) proposal in  Submitted a ADVANCE PAID proposal for a nationwide IDEAL program in 2012.