1. Institutionalizing transformation
Update on CHARGE Program; Year 5

2. Outline CHARGE Overview CHARGE Results Institutionalization Final Year
Goals
CHARGE Results
Faculty Search Seminar
Bias Intervention Workshop
(Re)Imaging Women in STEM
Institutionalization
Sustaining change after the grant
Final Year

3. CHARGE GOALS & Projects
Goal 1, 21st Century Departments: To strengthen and support departmental efforts to create a positive environment for all faculty with an emphasis on women and minorities
Advocates & Allies/DDI in the College & SEAS
Training Chairs and Deans
P&T Policy Review (SEAS) & Workshop (University)
P&T Portal (SEAS)
Goal 2, Recruitment & Hiring: To increase the gender diversity of STEM/SBE departments
Faculty Search Seminar
Academic Search Portal
Faculty & Candidate Guide
Recruitment Grants
Goal 3, Voices & Visibility: To increase the sense of belonging of STEM/SBE women faculty among their schools and departments
Social Science Research: Safer Grounds
Oral Histories with STEM Women Faculty
(Re)Imaging Women in STEM exhibit
Enhancement Grants
Here is what the program looks like now; we’ve realigned projects under the 3 goals; each goal has better synergy across each other; In many ways working toward goals 1 and 2 support goals 3
Overview
Results
Sustainability

4. CHARGE Results
Now let’s turn to some of CHARGEs accomplishments this year

5. Faculty search seminar
101 faculty & staff attended workshops in September and November
83% Faculty; 6% Administrative faculty
76% non-STEM
95% on a search committee
Interactive theater with Univ. of New Hampshire PowerPlay
Scenario topics
The Search: gender and racial bias in a search committee
Dual Career: vignettes and experiences of dual career couples
Cluster Hires: gender bias and other challenges of cluster hires
Follow-up evaluation after 6 months to see what attendees learned and used
55% response rate
Overview
Results
Sustainability

6. Faculty search seminar: 6 months later
Applied their knowledge
87% ensured committee used equitable search practices
78% recognized their own bias (Bias Literacy Level 1)
70% reduced bias during candidate evaluations
Other
Used what they learned to select students for groups
Minimized hall conversations about searches
Intervened when they saw bias in the process
*55% response rate
Overview
Results
Sustainability

7. Bias Intervention workshop
The Workshop
Response to CHARGE evaluations since 2014 showing participants could recognize implicit bias, but did not know how to intervene with colleagues
Based on Bystander Intervention theory and model; trains bystanders to safely intervene and interrupt implicit bias situations
Attendees learned and practiced strategies for intervening
Univ. of New Hampshire PowerPlay and Dr. Stephanie Goodwin, Wright State Univ.
Demographics, 70 attendees
77% female
39% College, 14% McIntire
19% Staff, 18% Lecturer, 14% Assoc. Professor
67% attended previous implicit bias workshops
Overview
Results
Sustainability

8. Bias Intervention workshop
Overview
Results
Sustainability

9. Bias intervention workshop
Most important concepts learned
Strategies for intervening, dissonance, questioning, non confrontational
Strategies for pivoting & redirecting
Silence is a response
Remaining Questions
Need more men attending
How to practice these safely

10. (re)imaging women in stem exhibit
Online and gallery exhibit featuring:
28 photographic portraits of UVA women STEM faculty
Oral history excerpts that recount women’s experiences with gender discrimination in STEM and the joys they find in science
A timeline of women’s co-education at UVA
Recent social media campaigns from women in STEM counter-acting gender stereotypes
Gallery exhibit, March 13-May15
Chemistry Building: portraits of faculty
Mural Room: oral histories, timeline, and social media campaigns
Overview
Results
Sustainability

11. (re)imaging women in stem exhibit
Online exhibit opened February 20
Gallery exhibit
Chemistry Lobby & Mural Room
Over 5k visitors: students, staff, faculty, prospective students, parents, university tours, chemistry camps K-12
Overview
Results
Sustainability

12. (re)imaging women in stem exhibit
Gallery Evaluation Results*:
Women students inspired by the portraits
Would like the university to use these spaces creatively like this more often
Did not know this history of UVA; still see remnants of this culture today
Did not know their professors/colleagues had experienced this level of gender discrimination; more aware of own bias
*Random sample of visitors interviewed for evaluation

13. Future of exhibit Gallery Exhibit Online Exhibit
Catalogued, working with university on accession
Re-installed
Anthropology gallery
Bicentennial celebration
NSF ADVANCE conference Fall 2017
Online Exhibit
Will remain open

14. Faculty demographics in STEM
2010: 13.7% of STEM/SBE TTT faculty were women (N=40)
2016: 20% of STEM/SBE TTT faculty are women (N=93)

15. Institutionalization & Final Year

16. Institutionalization
Purpose: NSF requires ADVANCE projects to be institutionalized by the end of the grant
Make change sustainable
Expand change beyond STEM departments to entire university
CHARGE Sustainability Model:
Decentralized; projects woven into existing systems & units
Each project will have a steward office
Internal Advisory Board (IAB) leading institutionalization
Chair, Kerry Abrams, Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs
Members: faculty, Assoc. Deans of Diversity, UHR, administrators
Creating formal mechanisms and sustainability plans
First Project to institutionalize
Faculty Search Seminar
Overview
Results
Sustainability

17. Faculty search seminars
2013 to 2016
400 attendees, 55% female; 82% faculty; 54% STEM/SBE
Workshops on recognizing & mitigating implicit bias, best practices in searches; search committee dynamics
Open to all faculty
Sustainability
Working with Vice Provost Office to have Faculty Search Seminars become part of the portfolio of the new Asst Vice Provost for Faculty Development
CHARGE working with Center for Teaching Excellence on institutionalizing the methodology—interactive theater.
Learning from Univ. of MI, UNH, Cornell
Piloting UVA interactive theater group
Overview
Results
Sustainability

18. Sustainability map

19. Next year Overview Results Sustainability
CHARGE will apply for a 6th year, no-cost extension
We will focus on:
Launching & supporting Advocates/DDI in SEAS
Disseminating our results and lessons learned
To the ADVANCE community
Within UVA
Professional associations and publications
Institutionalizing change
Evaluating our impact
For more information, contact:
Overview
Results
Sustainability