Features and common patterns of dimensions of department life or its members’ perceptions of attitudes toward these dimensions like collegiality, respect, and fairness.
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Strategic Career Development for STEM Women Faculty
Suzanna M. Rose (Florida International University, USA), Yesim Darici (Florida International University, USA), and Sanaz Farhangi (Florida International University, USA)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8476-6.ch022
Abstract
Women continue to be underrepresented in the academic fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) relative to the proportion of doctoral degrees they earn. This also was the case in 2009 at Florida International University, where only 11% of the STEM tenure-line faculty were women. In this chapter, the rationale, implementation, and outcomes will be described for two strategic career development projects for STEM women faculty that were funded by the National Science Foundation; the Awareness, Commitment, and Empowerment project (2011-2016); and the FIU ADVANCE Institutional Transformation project (2016-2021). Also described will be the role that social media and digital formats played in developing and sustaining a sense of community among women faculty, as well as for doing research and evaluation.