1. CRA-W CAPP Workshop – November 2012 Effective Leadership & Creating Change Nancy Amato, Texas A&M

2. CRA-W Computer Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research Mission increase the participation and success of women in computing research www.cra-w.org

3. What does CRA-W do? Individual & Group Research Mentoring Graduate Students Undergraduates Academic careers Industry/government Undergrads: Undergraduate Research Experiences Undergrads: Distinguished lecture role models Grad Cohort: group mentoring of grad students Grad Students: Discipline Specific Research workshops PhD Researchers: group mentoring of early & mid career@ CMW, CAPP, Hopper & Tapia 600+ students and PhD researchers a year www.cra-w.org

4. Leadership Opportunities Formal Leadership Roles – Internal & external: e.g., department head/chair, officer in professional society, … Leading New Initiatives – non-permanent activities that may, but dont have to, become institutionalized Building New Programs – permanent & institutionalized activities

5. Formal Leadership Roles University leadership positions – Department head/chair, dean, provost, president, etc. External leadership positions – Rotator at NSF, professional society officer, conference program/general chair, etc. Obtaining & Succeeding in these roles – build up: do a good job on shorter term and smaller projects (initiatives & programs) – discover what fits you best & focus there

6. The Facilitators Share… One leadership opportunity Im glad I took. One leadership opportunity Im glad I took. One thing related to a leadership opportunity that I wish I had done differently? One thing related to a leadership opportunity that I wish I had done differently?

7. Leading New Initiatives Initiatives are non-permanent activities that may, but dont have to, become institutionalized – On-line departmental grad admissions, Campus-wide alliance of bioinformatics researchers, pilot program for peer teaching evaluations, college ombudsperson Why would you want to lead one? – To get something done you believe in

8. Leading New Initiatives: Key Elements Your passion for it – Wont work well if you do it because others want it, you have to care about it Clear statement of objective – Get feedback and buy-in from others Determine & obtain needed resources – Time, financial, staff, space & a supporter/champion Run with it, iterating on above steps as needed Understand when its time to move to next stage

9. Initiatives Exercise Get in pairs Discuss/brainstorm about initiatives you would like to lead – Select one initiative each – Identity resources needed for it and who might be your supporter/champion

10. Initiatives Exercise Discussion Share your ideas and see who here might have relevant experiences to share with you

11. Building New Programs has political and technical aspects Requires leadership – one or more committed advocates who are willing to do the work The results may take much longer than you think they should

12. Building New Programs: Key Elements Have a convincing rationale for change – preferably with data Build consensus as needed – within department, college, university Understand what is required – Know the approval process at your university – Insinuate yourself into key committees

13. Building New Programs: Consensus Exercise Choose a scenario Lets start an honors program! Lets introduce a new course in Robotic Rabbits! Lets start a new degree program in digital forensics! Choose a role The proposer The only antagonistic The apathetic Nothing but negative A supporter (at most one per group)

14. Building New Programs: Consensus Building Debriefing What worked? What tips do you need?

15. Discussion Questions I see growth potential in our department. How should I promote change? Strategies to make it happen. Are there certain roles or positions that are better/worse to take if Im interested in future advancement? E.g., chairing undergraduate curriculum committee vs. faculty search?

16. Come to our BOF: We Need Your Input! BOF: Designing a Senior Faculty Career Mentoring Workshop: Lets Brainstorm – Friday October 4, 2013 – 3:45-4:45pm, MCC 200-D-G – Description: The goal of this BOF is to learn what resources would help academic women continue growing their careers after Full Professor. CRA-W runs career-mentoring workshops for undergraduate, graduate, early and mid career researchers. Building on these successful workshops, CRA-W is considering developing senior academic leadership materials. We want to learn from the community what training would help women continue to climb the academic career ladder.

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