Sentences with phrase «female faculty members»

Despite significant attention to hiring more female faculty members in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, they remain underrepresented at the top levels of academia.

Thanks to affirmative action, the number of female faculty members teaching in art schools and universities continues to grow as well.

It follows that many female faculty members will be the only woman in their department.

Most academic institutions have recognized the problem, and many are improving their policies, especially for female faculty members.

The Status of Women Office makes every effort to connect female students with female faculty members early in the academic year.

She has found that female faculty members at her institution almost always have less favorable views of their department's climate — reflected in the department's unspoken expectations and interpersonal relations — compared with male faculty.

It happened to me; it happens to other female faculty members; and it happens to female staff, graduate students, and undergraduates.

An undercurrent of historical bias against female faculty members may also slow advancement.

Although academia can seem set in its ways, getting committees to change their hiring practices is possible, says Jessi Smith, professor of psychology at Montana State University in Bozeman, who developed a faculty - search strategy that increased the number of female faculty members hired.

By having the contacts in place in advance, gathering such information will be easy; without the contacts, the candidate would have to resort to making cold calls to female faculty members where she was interviewing, and this would probably yield very little worthwhile information.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

Carol really doesn't have much time to devote to mentoring Sarah but feels obligated to do so, as she is the only female faculty member in the department.

Jones alleges in her complaint that Salk leaders used female faculty members and scientists as «donor - bait» by picturing them on mailers sent to potential donors «in an effort to make it appear that Salk recognizes the importance of retaining and promoting and paying women equally» (see image, below).

Didion says it's important to study what historically black and other minority - serving institutions do to attract top black female faculty members; create platforms where new hires can voice concerns without fear of reprisal and ensure transparency in the promotion and tenure processes.

For example, as a post-doctoral fellow in 1994, Anne Hart, now a biology professor at Brown University, attended a conference where she talked at length with two female faculty members from other institutions.

One - third of Harvard's natural science departments have no senior women at all, and nearly half have no junior female faculty members.

After joining the new California Institute of the Arts in Valencia as the first female faculty member, Schapiro met Judy Chicago.

«We wanted to evaluate whether the absence of female faculty members in physics departments is an appropriate measure of women's progress in physics,» said Susan White, research manager in the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at AIP, who conducted the study with Rachel Ivie, associate director of the SRC.

Perhaps the most shocking statistic was the most obvious: The total number of female faculty members in the sciences had not changed much since the days when McClintock had written to the young Hopkins.

Fact B: There are only two female faculty members in my department, and neither has children.»

For example, before taking a position at a university, a female job candidate might contact any female faculty members who have left that university and female faculty members at nearby universities in order to learn more about their environments.

Female faculty members are more likely to report spending more time on teaching and less time on research than male faculty members.

There isn't socialization between male and female faculty members.

By comparing the actual distribution of women in physics with simulated results, the report shows, if anything, that today there are more departments than expected with at least one female faculty member.

Female faculty members go out to coffee with female faculty members.

Current recruiting strategies don't seem to be working, but chairing a search committee with a female faculty member is a simple step that often fills open jobs with women.

Departments that already have female faculty members are likely to have a climate that is friendlier to women, he explains, and therefore attract more women.

The dean also focused on building up the numbers of female faculty members: «I put a lot of pressure on the department heads to make sure they were working hard to find women candidates — and that has been very successful.»

Hiring a heterosexual dual - career couple brings in both a male and a female faculty member; in percentage terms, then, the effect on faculty diversity is diluted.

The stunning serigraph, Night Watcher (1955) is said to have been created as a response to the close scrutiny she received as a female faculty member.