Sentences with phrase «increase women faculty»

All of the interviewees participated in «On - Ramps into Academia» workshops, which were held from 2009 to 2012 by UW's ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change and offered a new approach to increase women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math departments.

One common strategy for increasing women faculty in STEM departments is to hire from other universities.

Not exact matches

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

Usually this statement surfaces when the discussion is about increasing ethnic minority enrollment or increasing the number of women and ethnic - minority faculty.

Having children over the age of five actually correlates with a 14 to 16 percent increase in the likelihood that women (and men also) will get tenure, because having older children provides «a stabilizing effect» for faculty.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

«We see this mild increase in Aβ42 in cells from patients with Alzheimer's disease, which seems to be enough to trigger disease processes,» said Young - Pearse, a Harvard Stem Cell Institute - affiliated faculty member at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The dramatic change in medical student gender demographics has not been accompanied, however, by a proportionate increase of women in senior faculty ranks and leadership positions, even after the expected time lag.

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

The university's board of directors, called overseers, last spring urged Harvard President Neil Rudenstine in a confidential report to take specific steps as quickly as possible to increase the number of women faculty in all departments.

«We probably won't be as radical as [previous activists], since we want to work within the system rather than be confrontational,» says Cynthia Friend, the sole woman chemist on Harvard's faculty and co-founder of a new panel seeking to increase the number of women researchers at that university.

«When women quit taking AIs, they increase the chances of their breast cancer reoccurring,» says Thomas, who joined the SOE faculty in August.

Increasing the number of women faculty in STEM fields is the goal of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at UW.

The annual employment accountability plan shall also include an analysis and an assessment of the Florida College System institution's attainment of annual goals and of long - range goals for increasing the number of women and minorities in faculty and senior - level administrative positions, and a corrective action plan for addressing underrepresentation.

Women's Work: Feminist Art from the Collection responds to Smith College faculty and students who expressed the desire for increased representation of the work of feminist artists in the Museum's collection.

Based on what I glean from conference planners who have successfully gotten more women on their faculties, there seem to be two important steps to increasing participation by underrepresented groups: