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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Workshops | Provost's Annual Leadership Retreat | Distinguished Lecturers | University Wide Meetings
Career Development workshops and meetings are held periodically through out the year for faculty, department chairs and administrators. A twice yearly Faculty Development workshops take place in cooperation with the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and past workshops have included "Gendered Communication in Academe", "Negotiation at the Academy", "Success Strategies for Women in Academic Careers", and "Successful Mentoring".
University-wide meetings are held once a year to about climate change issues. Multiple meetings were held with a variety of constituents around campus over 3 days in October 2004 about Improving the Chilly Climate for Women Students, and the Provost's Annual Leadership Retreat for Department Chairs takes place each fall since 2004. The first University-Wide Meeting of Women Faculty was held on January 26, 2006 to share information and brainstorm the institutionalization of ACES initiatives.
Women Faculty who attented a Development
Workshop had this to say:
- "It encouraged me to continue working towards my career"
- I am currently in the ACES program. I feel a lot of the
issues that came up today are being addressed by this
program
- I feel fortunate to have had this awesome opportunity
- Networking and strategic alliance is important
and efficient for the clinical faculty
Having Difficult Conversations: Skill-Building for Women, March 7, 2008
Tricks of the Trade for New and Pre-Tenure Faculty: Saving Time and Sanity, Oct. 29, 2007
Emotional Intelligence in the Academic Workplace: A Primer for Women Faculty, April 13, 2007
Success and Survival Strategies, Nov. 3, 2006
Gendered Communication in Academe: Understanding the Gap – Valuing the Differences, Feb. 17, 2006
University Wide Meeting for Women Faculty, January 26, 2006
Negotiating in the Academy: a Workshop for Women Faculty, Nov. 11, 2005
Successful Mentoring , Feb, 2005
Success Strategies for Academic Careers: Lessons from Industry, Sept. 23, 2004
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Susan S. Case, Ph.D., of the Department of Organizational Behavior presented the faculty development workshop "Gendered Communication in Academe: Understanding the Gap – Valuing the Differences" on Friday, February 17, 2006 in the 1914 Lounge in Thwing Center. This interactive presentation helped participants recognize the differences and patterns in the ways women and men typically communicate in organizations and how these differences often lead to miscommunication. Participants examined the reasons for these entrenched differences, why they matter, and how they impact meetings and decision-making within the university environment. They left with ideas for closing the gender gap as well as an increased ability to identify the contributions of women's communication patterns to emerging organizational realities. |
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Institutionalizing ACES. On January 26, 2006, ACES held a university wide information sharing and brainstorming session for women faculty. The meeting highlighted ACES initiatives, progress since the program's implication, and recent research findings. Additionally, those in attendance learned about the Provost Leadership Retreat for Deans and Chairs and new university policies. |
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On Friday, November 11, 2005, Deborah Kolb held her workshop in the 1914 Lounge in Thwing Center. Lunch was provided at 12:30 PM, and the workshop ran from 12:45 to 2 PM. To learn more about Deborah Kolb and her work, please visit her website at this link.
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Negotiation is a critical skill in the university - it is one of the ways the system works. When a woman fails to negotiate for what she needs to be successful, the potential for accumulation of disadvantage magnifies.
To be successful in these negotiations requires clarity about what can be negotiated. As we bargain over issues, a parallel discussion - or shadow negotiation - is taking place simultaneously. The shadow negotiation is where relationships, perceptions of power and control, and hidden agendas are most likely to surface.
Working from case examples drawn from academia, Deborah Kolb helped participants develop practical skills for managing the shadow negotiations in ways that promote their interests and those of the university. These ideas are based on her best selling books.
Deborah M. Kolb is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Simmons School of Management. From 1991 through 1994, she was executive director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She is currently a senior fellow in the program, where she co-directs the Negotiations in the Workplace Project. She is also a partner in the firm Negotiating Women, Inc. |
Kolb is co-author of Her Place at the Table: A Woman's Guide to Negotiating: Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2004) and of The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success (Simon & Schuster, 2000). That book was named by the Harvard Business Review as one of the top ten business books of 2000 and has been published in paperback under the title Everyday Negotiation: Navigating the Hidden Agendas of Bargaining.
She received her Ph.D. from MIT'S Sloan School of Management, where her dissertation won the Zannetos Prize for outstanding doctoral scholarship.
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Sandra Donovan, Ph.D. (Case, Chemistry) presented "Success Strategies for Women in Academic Careers" as part of a series of ACES networking events at the Center for Women. More than 60 women, including faculty, graduate students, and industry executives, attended the workshop where Donovan shared insights and strategies from her 30 year career in the corporate world and as a consultant to private and public decision makers.
This event was held on September 23, 2004, in Thwing Center's 1914 Lounge.
The workshop focused on mastering and demonstrating professional excellence in order to have a
successful academic career requires more than knowing your field. At
this
workshop, interactive discussion were built around vignettes
including:
1) How Do I Handle All of These "Extra Tasks" Assigned to Me?
2) Teaching Demands Keep Me From Doing My Research.
3) I Think I'm Targeted to Remain an Associate Professor.
4) I Think I'd Like to Become a Department Head, Provost, or Dean. |
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Nationally known expert on women's issues and author of Title IX, Dr. Bernice Sandler visited Case October 18-20, 2004, sponsored by WISER (Women in Sciences and Engineering Roundtable) and ACES. She met with faculty, administrators, and staff to discuss the chilly climate on campus for women, gendered behavior in the academy, and mediation of sexual harassment claims. Dr. Sandler also met with students in the WISER community to discuss the importance of mentoring to women students in the sciences and engineering. Bernice Sandler's homepage can be found at this link. (Link will appear in a new window.) |
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Claire A. Scott Milller' s consulting and training expertise has successfully assisted corporations and organizations
in maximizing the effectiveness of their human resources. Clients have included professional service firms, Fortune
500 companies, banks, hospitals and government agencies across the United States, Canada and Europe. Her
executive coaching has assisted individuals in maximizing their potential and enhancing their career-life satisfaction.
Noted for her customer focused programs, Ms. Miller was selected to be part of a pilot model program on Customer
Service Skills training for the nationally recognized Greater Cleveland Growth Assoc.'s Workforce Initiative and a
High Performance Leadership Program for high growth companies. Other projects have included a Quality Team
Building program for a partnership between MK-Ferguson and Dupont, which has been recognized nationally by
both the American Society for Quality Control and the Organizational Development Network. Among others she has
also worked with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, JPMorgan Chase Bank, and the US Navy.
Past research involved directing a Work Family project which gained recognition nationally. While managing
the project, Ms. Miller was on a leave of absence from the General Electric Co. where she was a member of the
Professional Relations Staff involved with recruiting, training, performance management and EEO.
Ms. Miller has been featured at national and international meetings and conferences (Society of Women Engineers,
American Banking Assoc., Professional Secretaries International, Women Going Global (Paris, France) etc. and
has been featured in articles by United Press International, Computer Decision Magazine, American Bank Women
Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer. She is the co-author of the book, Quality Customer Service in Government and
was published in Preparing Professional Women for the Future: Resources for Teachers and Trainers by the
University of Michigan.
Ms. Miller has taught at the undergraduate, graduate and executive level at Bridgewater State College, Elon
University, Cleveland State and Case Western Reserve University Executive Education. Honors include Who's Who
Among University Women, YWCA Career Woman of Achievement Merit, Business Woman of the Month. Her
education includes a BA from Denison Univ., M.Ed. from Bowling Green State University, continuing education at
Harvard and Radcliffe and advanced training from the National Assoc. of Business Coaches (NABC). She is also
certified in several programs (Team Works, Communication Styles) including Franklin-Covey's What Matters Most. |
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This interactive workshop focused on practical strategies to
increase the job satisfaction and overall success of new and Pre-
Tenure Faculty. Good practices for self-promotion, engaging good
mentors, and how to say "no."
JoAnn Moody, PhD, JD, is a national higher education diversity consultant
specializing in the recruitment, mentorship, and retention of women and
underrepresented minority faculty and graduate students, especially in the STEM
fields. She consults with a variety of campuses as well as law, medical, public
health, engineering, and other professional schools—to help these entities
enhance their diversity. She works directly with search committees, department
enhance
chairs, deans, provosts, trustees, diversity councils, pre-tenure faculty and their
senior faculty mentors.
Dr. Moody is a former college professor and higher education administrator.
Her problem-based, highly interactive workshops will 'tap into the wisdom' of
the participants so that all will have a chance to offer some of their insights,
successes, frustrations, and confusions. As the analysis and brainstorming
proceed Dr. Moody will share strategies and caveats derived from her consulting
and research and she will help participants begin to develop action plans. |
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