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How Women Rise

How Women Rise website (Published April 10, 2018) Website Discussion Guide “Leadership expert Sally Helgeson and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers—men and women—to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they see that women face specific and different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace. In fact, the very habits that helped women early in their careers can hinder them as they move up. Simply put, what got you here won’t get […]

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Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor (2nd Edition)

Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor (2nd Edition) (Published July 10, 2015) Website “Success Strategies from Women in Stem: A Portable Mentor, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and accessible manual containing career advice, mentoring support, and professional development strategies for female scientists in the STEM fields. This updated text contains new and essential chapters on leadership and negotiation, important coverage of career management, networking, social media, communication skills, and more. The work is accompanied by a companion […]

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Do the Best Researchers and Society Win? Fairness, Validity and Bias in Promotion and Tenure Decision Making

November 8th, 2022 Do the Best Researchers and Society Win? Fairness, Validity, and Bias in Promotion and Tenure Decision Making Presenters Juan Madera, Ph.D., (PI) Curtis L Carlson Endowed Professor Professor, Hilton College of Hospitality Leadership, Central University of Houston Christine Spitzmueller, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Strategy, University of California Merced Erika Henderson, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Recruitment, Retention, Equity and Diversity, Central University of Houston Michelle Penn-Marshall, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Texas Southern University Institution/ADVANCE […]

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2010 Gardner How Research Can Help Us Build Faculty Diversity

2010 Gardner How Research Can Help Us Build Faculty Diversity

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2014 UTPA Symposium Gardner & Leibnitz “Dual-Career Challenges in the Hinterlands”

2014 UTPA Symposium Gardner & Leibnitz “Dual-Career Challenges in the Hinterlands”  

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Invisible but Essential: The Role of Professional Networks in Promoting Faculty Agency in Career Advancement

Check out this new paper on the importance of social networking by Elizabeth Niehaus & KerryAnn O’Meara (2014)!  You can also access this work through the AIM Network Interest Group in the Women in STEM Knowledge Center!

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Sensemaking about Why Faculty Leave: Policy Impact on Faculty Outside Offers

Check out Kerry Ann O’Meara, Ph.D. and her colleague’s latest work on policy impact and faculty outside offers:  “Half-Way Out:  How Requiring Outside Offers to Raise Salaries Influences Faculty Retention and Organizational Commitment,” and “To Heaven or Hell:  Sensemaking about Why Faculty Leave.”  Kerry Ann will discuss this work at the next AIM Network monthly meeting (Tuesday, February 10, 2015) in a presentation entitled:  Stop, Don’t, Go, Please:  Retention and How our Policies & Work Environments Shape it.   Kerry Ann is Co-PI and Co-Director […]

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Minority Professors?–Excellent Data Tool!

Needing data for your latest presentation on faculty women in STEM?  Check out this fabulous graphical tool by the Chronicle of Higher Education for looking at racial-ethnicity/gender demography among tenure-track faculty in US. http://chronicle.com/interactives/where-are-the-minority-professors

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Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower (Clip) from roxana walker-canton on Vimeo.

Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower

Check out this amazing project and video: Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower. Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower (Clip) from roxana walker-canton on Vimeo.

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Looking for STEM Minority Data?

Transition % Between Educational Levels for Race-Ethnic Groups (Garrison, 2013) If you have been looking for the most recent race-ethnicity data in STEM, look no further!  Underrepresentation by Race-Ethnicity across Stages of US Science and Engineering Education (Garrison, 2013)

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