To Tenure and Beyond:
Building an Intentional Career in STEM
A Pay it FORWARD Workshop*
A joint program of the Office of the Provost and the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women
To Tenure and Beyond: Building an Intentional Career in STEM is a regional career development workshop series for pre-tenure women professors in STEM from the six research universities (BGSU, CWRU, CSU, KSU, UA and UT) collaborating on the NSF-PAID grant Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership (IDEAL). Each IDEAL University may enroll 3 - 4 pre-tenure women STEM faculty to participate. Participant names will be accepted until August 15th.
IDEAL has three overall objectives: 1) create a regional learning community, 2) leadership development for senior faculty, and 3) institutional commitment to the advancement and participation of women faculty at the partner universities. These objectives are accomplished through leadership development workshops, an annual plenary conference and the design and launching of an annual change projects by Change Leader Teams at each university. The change projects progress a university-specific institutional theme around the participation and advancement of women faculty. For the six IDEAL universities To Tenure and Beyond will complement the transformative activities of the Change Leader Teams to increase the participation of women in academia by engaging the pre-tenure faculty directly.
The To Tenure and Beyond objectives are focused on developing strategic skills, building confidence and enhancing participants’ understanding of academe while advancing the creation of a professional development plan that incorporates achieving tenure and beyond.
The workshops will be held 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. September 26th, November 17th, 2011 and February 20th 2012 on the CWRU campus. Lunch, parking and mileage reimbursement will be provided.
The workshop will include:
1) Two one-hour executive coaching sessions for each particpant
2) Three skill-building workshops (9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.) using case studies of situations that could impact tenure
3) Opportunities to interact with peer/near peer faculty from Northeast Ohio universities.
Potential workshops topics (influenced by participant survey results) are listed below:
- Intentional Change
- Goal setting
- Increasing Positive Visibility
- Power, Politics and Influence
- Mentoring and Being Mentored
- Managing Others
- Negotiation Skills
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Time Management
- Work Life Integration
Workshop 3
Mentor Guide for Students
Mentor Guide for Faculty
Student Roadmap Template
PhD Student Template
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Workshop Two presentation
Workshop One presentation
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About FORWARD
*Focus on Reaching Women for Academics, Research and Development in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (FORWARD), a joint program of Washington and Gallaudet Universities, is funded by two National Science Foundation ADVANCE leadership awards and one NIH award, to advance women, the Deaf and other underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines.
For additional information contact Amanda Shaffer at
216.368.8874 or amanda.shaffer@case.edu