Murray State ADVANCE
ADVANCE Workshop
Strategic Persuasion: Achieving Success in Meetings & Negotiation
Friday January 11th, 2019
Nancy Houfek will present a workshop on Strategic Persuasion on Friday January 11th
in BIO 1119 at two different times to accommodate schedules. The workshops are open
to all female faculty.
Morning Workshop 8:15-11:45am
Lunch is provided 11:45am-12:30pm
Afternoon Workshop 12:30-4:00pm
RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/coNUM3MSOaFPZAq03
Questions? Contact msu.advance@murraystate.edu
ADVANCE 2017 Climate Study Recommendations
The ADVANCE PIs have made the following recommendations to Murray State based on the
2017
Climate Study:
- Improve perception that work/life balance is a priority at Murray State.
- Provide childcare facility for employees.
- Develop faculty support network by institutionalizing the mentoring circles through
the
Faculty Development Center. - Assess workload expectations, particularly regarding teaching and service.
- Increase salaries to be comparable to peer institutions and establish mechanism for
annual
increases. - Introduce optional bias training with a view to improving recruitment activities,
and tenure
& promotion processes. - Increase exposure to policies about extension of the probationary period (see Faculty
Handbook).
The report is available here.
Differences and Deficits Affecting Women STEM Faculty: Creating a Framework for Change at a Rural Public University
Murray State University provides a unique opportunity to examine how structural and cultural differences associated with a historically rural agrarian area may impact the recruitment, retention and promotion of women faculty in STEM and SBES disciplines. It has been a challenge to recruit and retain female faculty and students in STEM at Murray State. We hypothesize that deficit and difference factors manifest differently at a rural public institution. We will conduct a survey of all faculty and interviews of selected female faculty members, review existing institutional data and policies, conduct site-visits to other ADVANCE institutions, invite external speakers to campus to inform and educate the administration and faculty, and conduct mentoring circles to support our junior STEM and SBES women faculty.
Project Team
Dr. Maeve McCarthy, PI, is the Jesse D. Jones Professor of Mathematics. She will lead the program, coordinate
speaker and site visits, and conduct some of the policy review. As the former Executive
Director of the Association for Women in Mathematics, she is passionate about gender
issues in STEM.
Dr. Steve Cobb, co-PI, is a Professor of Engineering and Physics. He is the former Dean of the Jones
College of Science, Engineering and Technology and is uniquely positioned to disseminate
information amongst administrators and to begin to develop plans to implement changes
based on findings.
Dr. Paula Waddill, co-PI, is a Professor and Chair of Psychology. She will apply her unique expertise
in quantitative research to the design, implementation, and analysis of the quantitative
survey and the existing institutional data.
Dr. Robin Zhang, co-PI, is a Professor and Chair of Geosciences. She will conduct policy reviews
with Dr. McCarthy and work with the PCDI to integrate elements of the projects into
existing diversity initiatives.
Dr. Echo Wu, co-PI, is an Assistant Professor of Education and the Director of the Center for
Gifted Studies. Her experience as an interviewer and her interest in STEM learning
makes her uniquely qualified for our project to conduct the preliminary interviews
and analyze the data that will be used to formulate our quantitative survey questions.
Dr. Claire Fuller, co-PI, is the Interim Dean of the Jones College of Science, Engineering and Technology
and a Professor of Biological Sciences. She will act as a liaison with Murray State
administration as well as advocate for change based on findings.
Internal Advisory Board
- Bob Jackson, Interim President
- Mark Arant, Provost
- Renae Duncan, Associate Provost
- Tim Todd, COB
- Claire Fuller, JCSET
- David Balthrop, CHFA
- Tony Brannon, HSA
- Ashley Ireland, LIB
- Cami Duffy, IDEA
- Kathy Farmer, Faculty Regent
- Joyce Gordon, HR
- Susana Bloomdahl, PCDI
- Firm Faith Watson, FDC
External Advisory Board
- Christine Grant, North Carolina State University
- Joan Herbers, Ohio State University
- Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Bobby Lee, WKCTC & Murray State Biology alumna
- Lauren Schmidt Martin, Appriss & Murray State Math/CS alumna