AdvanceVT

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The mission of AdvanceVT is to assist Virginia Tech in preparing, recruiting, and retaining high quality and diverse faculty. To accomplish this mission, our programs are designed to facilitate success in scholarship, teaching, engagement and administration for a wide range of audiences. These programs target graduate students preparing for faculty careers, new faculty just starting out, senior faculty preparing for leadership roles, search committees, department heads, and senior administrators. AdvanceVT began in 2003 with a grant from the National Science Foundation to promote and enhance the careers of women in academic science and engineering through institutional transformation. Grant funding continued until August 2010. High impact initiatives continue with support from university partners, and have been expanded to include faculty in all disciplines. See http://www.advance.vt.edu for more information. The permalink for this community is http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71753.

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    2008 Faculty Work-Life Survey
    Virginia Tech. Center for Survey Research (Virginia Tech, 2008-09-22)
    This survey is being administered in order to help improve the climate for faculty members at Virginia Tech. Aggregate data from the survey will be shared with deans, department heads, and others in order to promote discussion about strategies to help improve the work-life of faculty members. This survey is entirely voluntary. You may leave any item or all items on the survey unanswered if you choose. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential and will never be disaggregated in a way that would reveal your identity. Thank you for your help.
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    2020 COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Results
    Clarke, Cyril R.; Kaufman, Eric K. (Virginia Tech, 2020-09-21)
    Provost Cyril Clarke and Faculty Senate President Eric Kaufman presented the results of the 2020 COACHE Survey in a virtual town hall meeting on September 21, 2020. The annual survey measured institutional experiences and job satisfaction among faculty at Virginia Tech.
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    ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award: Virginia Tech - Project Summary
    National Science Foundation (Virginia Tech, 2002-09-25)
    Virginia Tech proposes a comprehensive program to promote and enhance the careers of women in science and engineering. The project has four major program elements that address institutional barriers that have constrained the advancement of women faculty members in the sciences and engineering (S&E) and target institutional culture, practices, and leadership development needs specific to Virginia Tech. The four program elements are listed here, with outcome measures and process activities that support each element.
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    ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant Proposal: Virginia Tech
    Hyer, Patricia B.; Thole, Karen A.; Love, Nancy G. (2002)
    Virginia Tech proposes a comprehensive program to promote and enhance the careers of women in science and engineering. The project has four major program elements that address institutional barriers that have constrained the advancement of women faculty members in the sciences and engineering (S&E) and target institutional culture, practices, and leadership development needs specific to Virginia Tech. The four program elements are listed here, with outcome measures and process activities that support each element.
    1. Institutionalizing change
      • Measurable Outcome: A change in the awareness, attitudes, and behaviors of key administrators and faculty members in S&E regarding gender equity issues.
      • Project Activities: retreats and workgroups for faculty and academic leaders, site visits to or interaction with other ADVANCE projects, qualitative assessment of the experience of women faculty in S&E, and review of policies and programs.
    2. Empowering women as leaders and scholars
      • Measurable Outcome: A significant increase in the percentage of women in visible positions as academic and technical leaders and as senior scholars in S&E.
      • Project Activities: half-time placements in leadership roles, research grants, faculty development, a named lecture series, and a flexible work/life fund.
    3. Increasing the representation of women
      • Measurable Outcome: A significant increase in the percentage of women faculty in S&E.
      • Project Activities: intensive work with search committees, visits to other campuses and conferences, and incentives for faculty involvement in recruitment activities.
    4. Advancing women into faculty careers
      • Measurable Outcome: A significant increase in the percentage of women in S&E who choose faculty careers.
      • Project Activities: program to prepare the future professoriate and expanded dissertation year/postdoctoral fellowship program.
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    ADVANCE Portal Website
    Layne, Margaret E.; Vega, Laurian (Virginia Tech, 2009-06-22)
    The purpose of the ADVANCE portal website is to link to information on ADVANCE grantee web sites, facilitate sharing among ADVANCE grantees, and make findings of ADVANCE grantees available to all.
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    Advance VT Newsletter, November 2017
    AdvanceVT (Virginia Tech, 2017-11)
    Occasional newsletters highlight AdvanceVT programs, events, and research findings.
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    ADVANCE: Institutional Transformation at Virginia Tech
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2005-12-05)
    Raising visibility of women leaders across campus, offering leadership development program for senior women faculty including individualized assessment and development plan to build on strengths, address weaknesses, workshops based on identified needs open to all women on topics such as managing conflict, negotiating, financial management, strategic planning, how to say no…
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    ADVANCE: Making a Difference at Virginia Tech
    AdvanceVT (Virginia Tech, 2005-05-13)
    The goals of AdvanceVT are to raise visibility of women leaders across campus, select a small group of senior women faculty from across campus based on interest and potential to move into leadership roles, develop an individualized assessment and development plan to build on strengths and address weaknesses, and plan workshops based on identified needs open to all women. Topics of these workshops will include conflict resolution, negotiations, financial management, strategic planning, and how to say no, among other things.
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    AdvanceVT 2008 Faculty Work-Life Survey Findings
    Virginia Tech. Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity (Virginia Tech, 2009-05-04)
    AdvanceVT Overview:

    - AdvanceVT began in 2003 with a five year grant from the National Science Foundation to increase the number and success of women faculty in the sciences and engineering

    - Focus of AdvanceVT is institutional transformation

    - Programs and policies designed to enable all faculty to achieve their potential

    - Virginia Tech is one of 39 universities nationwide to receive grants
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 1 : September 2003 - June 2004
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2004-07-16)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 2 : September 2004 - June 2005
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2005-06-22)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change through policy review.
    Significant accomplishments during year two include increased visibility for gender issues campus wide through an annual workshop with nationally recognized speakers; intensive work with department heads including two presentations to the campus-wide department heads’ breakfast roundtable, discussions at college level department head meetings on university policies, and a two-day orientation program for new department heads; education of search committees on unconscious bias; discussions with faculty focus groups on work/life issues; implementation of a campus-wide faculty survey; and initiation of an intensive leadership development program for women faculty.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 3 : September 2005 – August 2006
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2006-07-14)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change through policy review.
    Significant accomplishments during year three include increased visibility for gender issues campus wide through widely disseminated publications, a special university-wide conference on work life issues for academic leaders co-hosted with the President’s Office, engagement with Faculty Senate and the Commission on Faculty Affairs, and an annual AdvanceVT workshop hosted jointly with the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs; intensive work with department heads including discussions at college level department head meetings on university policies and a two-day orientation program for new department heads; education of search committees on unconscious bias; dissemination of findings of the campus-wide faculty survey, focus groups, and exit survey; and completion of the first cohort of women faculty participating in the intensive leadership development program.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 4 : September 2006 – August 2007
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2007-06-26)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change.
    Significant accomplishments during year four include approval of a new part-time employment policy for tenure track faculty by the university governance structure and board of visitors, draft of a manual of successful strategies for developing and maintaining a positive department climate, presentations to the Task Force on Race and the Institution and the Black Caucus of findings from the 2005 faculty survey, and development and release of a request for information to commercial day care providers, in addition to maintaining a portfolio of workshops, seminars, grants, fellowships, and development programs. AdvanceVT hosted the Transforming the Professoriate conference for underrepresented graduate students and post-doctoral associates preparing for faculty careers in summer 2006.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 5 : September 2007 – August 2008
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2008-06-17)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change.

    Significant accomplishments during year five include the submission of a collaborative proposal for a PAID grant to disseminate AdvanceVT’s leadership coaching model throughout Virginia with the ACE Virginia Network, James Madison University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Virginia Community College System. Also, after a two year effort, AdvanceVT unveiled Creating a Positive Departmental Climate at Virginia Tech: A Compendium of Successful Strategies. The compendium draws from results of an initial 2006 Departmental Climate Initiative survey, AdvanceVT workshop discussions on existing strategies, AdvanceVT 2003 faculty work-life survey data, a literature review, and materials from other institutions. In addition to maintaining a portfolio of workshops and seminars, AdvanceVT co-hosted the fifth annual “Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech” conference on January 8, with the Office of Multicultural Affairs. AdvanceVT also began development of a database of potential faculty candidates, with a focus on candidates with diverse backgrounds, in collaboration with the Office for Equal Opportunity.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Report : Year 6 : September 2008 – August 2009
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2009-07-31)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change.

    Significant accomplishments during year six include the expansion of available child care described above, the culmination of many years of effort by university leaders supported by the AdvanceVT program. AdvanceVT also conducted a repeat of the Faculty Work- Life survey in fall 2008 and submitted a proposal for a PAID grant to study changes in perceptions of leadership at ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant recipient institutions. In addition to maintaining a portfolio of workshops and seminars for current and future faculty, AdvanceVT co-hosted the sixth annual “Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech” conference on January 12, with the Office of Equity and Inclusion, with a record 300 attendees.
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    AdvanceVT Annual Workshop : Summary Report : 2004-2010
    AdvanceVT (Virginia Tech, 2010-11-23)
    Since 2004, AdvanceVT has hosted an annual workshop geared toward advancing diversity at Virginia Tech. Throughout the evolution of this initiative, feedback from the workshops has been overwhelmingly positive and the annual workshop has become a signature event for AdvanceVT. The speakers and breakout sessions inform participants about research and programs related to broadening participation in academic careers, provide examples of successful approaches to institutional change, and both energize and challenge attendees to examine their own biases and consider new ways to engage in diversity work.

    The first annual workshop in 2004 focused on issues related to women in academic science and engineering careers and was held at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, VA. This event was organized soon after Virginia Tech received an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant in September 2003, and served as an opportunity to educate the university community about the ADVANCE initiative and to begin discussing opportunities for change at Virginia Tech. In response to feedback from the 2004 workshop that indicated many participants would prefer events to be held in Blacksburg, the 2005 workshop was held on campus at the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center under the title of “Advancing Women at Virginia Tech.” In 2006, the annual workshop was moved to the new Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, and the 2007 – 2010 workshops were also held at this facility. After the first few years of the AdvanceVT initiative, the focus of the annual workshops was expanded to address other underrepresented groups in academe in addition to women. By 2009, registration for the annual workshop had grown to approximately 300 participants.
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    AdvanceVT Final Report
    Layne, Margaret E.; Hyer, Patricia B. (2010)
    The overall goal of AdvanceVT is to contribute to the development of a national science and engineering academic workforce that includes the full participation of women at all levels of faculty and academic leadership, particularly at the senior academic ranks, through the transformation of institutional practices, policies, climate and culture at Virginia Tech. The program has four major elements: advancing women into faculty careers, increasing the representation of women faculty in science and engineering, empowering women as leaders and scholars, and institutionalizing change. Virginia Tech has institutionalized many of the Advance initiatives, particularly those related to work-life balance and faculty recruiting. This report provides an overview of grant activities and summative assessment of impacts.
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    AdvanceVT Leadership Development Programs : Final Assessment
    AdvanceVT (Virginia Tech, 2010-11)
    Each academic year from 2004-05 through 2007-08, AdvanceVT offered faculty women opportunities to develop leadership skills and to enhance their visibility in the university. Among respondents to AdvanceVT’s 2005 Faculty Work-Life Survey, 47% of the tenured and tenure-track women indicated that they aspired to a leadership position beyond their current position compared with only 31% of the male respondents, and 77% of the women versus only 55% of men indicated an interest in opportunities to develop their leadership skills. However, only 29% of the women faculty and 48% of the men agreed that it is possible to hold a leadership position at Virginia Tech while balancing work and personal responsibilities, and even fewer (18% of women and 24% of men) believed that it is possible to maintain an active research program while in a leadership role. AdvanceVT’s leadership programs were designed to address women faculty members’ interest in leadership development as well as concerns about balancing demands of research and family with a leadership role.
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    AdvanceVT Newsletter #1 February 2004
    Layne, Margaret E. (Virginia Tech, 2004-02)
    The first AdvanceVT newsletter describes the program, introduces the leadership team, and highlights upcoming events.
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    AdvanceVT Newsletter, September 2018
    Sullivan, Leslie; Layne, Margaret E. (2018-09)
    AdvanceVT Newsletter recognizing recently promoted women faculty, work/life resources for faculty, and upcoming events for fall 2018.