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Peer reviewedJianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) continues its two-year NSF grant, "Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions Catalyst Track," that began in the Fall of 2022 to support the advancement of female faculty careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Treating the improvement…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Organizational Change
Download full textJianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2023
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) was awarded a two-year NSF grant, "ADVANCE Catalyst: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions", that began in Fall 2022 to examine potential systemic barriers against female faculty of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in recruitment,…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Organizational Change
Direct linkO'Meara, KerryAnn; Stromquist, Nelly P. – Gender and Education, 2015
Organisational efforts to alter gender asymmetries are relatively rare, yet they are taking place in a number of universities. In the USA, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, ADVANCE programmes implement a number of interventions to improve the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women faculty. This study focused on one common…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Peer Groups, Social Networks, Sex Fairness
Bilimoria, Diana; Liang, Xiangfen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Women faculty's participation in academic science and engineering is critical for future US global competitiveness, yet their underrepresentation particularly in senior positions remains a widespread problem. To overcome persistent institutional resistance and barriers to change, the "NSF ADVANCE" institutional transformation initiative,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Women Faculty, Females, Disproportionate Representation
Johnson, Shaun P. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
Current statistics show that roughly one quarter of all classroom teachers are male: this proportion sinks to approximately ten percent in the elementary grades. A scarcity of men in teaching is not a new phenomenon and has remained relatively constant through more than a century of various educational reforms. This brief discusses the historical…
Descriptors: Role Models, Social Justice, Sex Fairness, Teachers
Shultz, Eileen L.; And Others – 1992
A study was conducted at Kutztown University (Pennsylvania) to examine issues affecting women in higher education. Areas addressed in the study include aspirations for advancement, perceptions of family support, perceived institutional support, perceived barriers to advancement, and networks perceived to support faculty. Data were solicited…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Faculty Integration, Females
Flowers, James C. – 1996
A Virginia study documented the attitudes and experiences of women in technology education (TE) concerning obstacles to TE as a career choice. Reasons for entering the profession revealed a general enthusiasm for technology teaching. The support network included college professors and advisors, parents, technology teachers, spouse, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Jackson, Jan, Ed. – 1988
These proceedings contain addresses and summaries of presentations made in concurrent sessions at the annual meeting. The addresses are: Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE)--Then and Now: What Our Past Has To Tell Us about Our Future" (Nelcamp and others); "A Conversation with Alex Haley" (Haley); "Luncheon Address of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Continuing Education, Correctional Education, Economic Development
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. – 1987
The document presents partial recommendations of a Pennsylvania State University Study Group on the Status of Women at the University. Recommendations concern "chilly" classroom climate, dual career recruitment and retention, and employee relations and representation. Among specific recommendations are the following: (1) study the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Dual Career Family, Employed Women, Faculty College Relationship
