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2ND ANNUAL PROVOST'S LEADERSHIP RETREAT 2005

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The Case Western Reserve University Annual Provost's Leadership Retreat, first held 26 October 2004, was held again on November 18, 2005 from 12 - 6:30 pm. The President, Provost, the deans of the schools of Engineering, Management, Medicine, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the chairs of the 31 NSF-ACES Science and Engineering departments were brought together to discuss issues pertinent to the recruitment, retention, advancement, and leadership development of women faculty.

The theme of the 2005 retreat was Things That Work.

The keynote address was "Things That Work for Cultural Transformation," by cultural historian and evolutionary theorist Riane Eisler. Best known for her international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Harper/Row 1987), which was hailed by Princeton anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species," Eisler has written several other books and more than 100 articles for scholarly publications.

Beth McGee, Faculty Diversity Officer and Associate Professor, introduced the CRLT Players from the University of Michigan. The group performed a sketch with a mixture of drama, comedy, and above all the reality of everyday challenges in academic situations. The U-M ADVANCE Project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the purpose of improving the hiring, retention and institutional climate for women faculty in the sciences and engineering. Following the sketch, the audience dialogued with the actors, who stayed in character. The goal of the CRLT players is to spark dialogue, promote inclusivity, and effect positive change inside and outside the classroom. To learn more about the CRLT players, please visit their website.

Deputy Provost Lynn Singer, Ph.D., and Prof. Diana Bilimoria described ACES program activities during the first year, including executive coaching of deans, chairs, and women faculty; mentoring committees for women faculty; training and development for departments; faculty networking events; search committee supports; and student awareness training. Two of the department chairs who attended the University of Washington's Chairs' Leadership Workshop (Cyrus Taylor, Physics, and Peter Pintauro, Chemical Engineering) presented their experiences and learnings from this workshop and suggestions for how to use these ideas on the Case campus.

A poster session reflected the progress of the four schools/colleges around the advancement of women faculty, as well as the research results to date of the ACES evaluation team. The Resource Equity Committee presented vignettes on the findings from faculty focus groups, interviews, and the 2004 University Community and Climate Survey.

The retreat concluded with a discussion, led by ACES Priniciple Investigator Deputy Provost Lynn Singer, of next steps for moving forward with the ACES initiatives. Below is an agenda of the retreat. To view photographs of the retreat, follow this link. If you would like to know more about the first Provost's Leadership Retreat, please follow this link.

Friday, November 18, 2005
Glidden House Magnolia Room, Case Western Reserve University

12 - 1:15	Welcome and Introductions - download the opening Powerpoint presentation at this link	Edward M. Hundert, M.D., President John Anderson, Provost and University Vice President Lynn Singer, ACES Principal Investigator, Deputy Provost, and Vice President for Academic Programs
	Keynote: Things That Work for Cultural Transformation	Riane Eisler
1:30 - 3:00	Things That Work for Improving Climate	Beth McGee, Faculty Diversity Officer and Associate Professor, Theater and Dance CRLT players, University of Michigan
3:00 - 3:15	Break	Refreshments
3:15 - 3:45	Things That Work for Academic Leaders	Peter Pintauro, Chair, Chemical Engineering Cyrus Taylor, Chair, Physics
3:45 - 4:15	Things That Work for Departmental Success at Case - Download Diana Bilimoria and C. Greer Jordon's "A Good Place to Do Science" Powerpoint presentation at this link	John Anderson Diana Bilimoria, ACES co-Principal Investigator and Associate Professor, Organizational Behavior Diana Kunze, Professor, Neurosciences
4:15 - 5:00	Case Study Discussion - download the Resource Equity Committee Case Study presentation at this link	Resource Equity Committee: Diana Bilimoria Nahida Gordon, Professor, Bioethics Cyrus Taylor, Chair, Physics
5:00 - 5:30	Next Steps - download the Powerpoint presentation at this link	Lynn Singer
5:30 - 6:30	Cocktails

Retreat Posters

Click on the name of the poster to download it in Powerpoint format.

Climate Survey 2004, Faculty Exit Survey 2004, Search Committee Tools, and Faculty Break-Up
How Do Female and Male Faculty Members Construct Job Satisfaction?
Graduate Student – Faculty Relations: Exploring Gender and Nationality
Case School of Engineering Diversity Assessment and Plan
A Good Place to do Science: A Case Study of an Academic Science Department