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COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHFOR HORIZONTAL MENTORINGALLIANCESFacilitating the advancement of senior women chemistry andphysics faculty members at liberal arts institutions to thehighest ranks of academic leadershipNational Science Foundation ADVANCE Partnerships forAdaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) AwardNSF-HRD-061840, 0619027, 0619052, & 0619150October 2006 - September 2010www.hmc.edu/nsfadvance1
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORSKERRY KARUKSTIS, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CABRIDGET GOURLEY, DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, GREENCASTLE, INLAURA WRIGHT, FURMAN UNIVERSITY, GREENVILLE, SCMIRIAM ROSSI, VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE, NYLeft to right:Miriam Rossi,Laura Wright,Bridget Gourley, &Kerry Karukstis2
SUMMARY OF INITIATIVESThis NSF-ADVANCE-PAID project focuses on the distinctive environments ofundergraduate liberal arts institutions and the challenges faced by seniorwomen faculty on these campuses to attain leadership roles and professionalrecognition. Our project involves the formation of five-member alliances ofsenior women faculty members at different institutions. Three of the alliancesfocus on full professors in chemistry, the fourth involves full professors inphysics. We have formed these alliances to test a “horizontal mentoringstrategy” that aims to enhance the leadership, visibility, and recognition ofparticipating faculty members. .Alliance members participate in discussions, workshops, and activities focusedon career and leadership development. We are particularly interested inexploring how this mentoring strategy operates differently, and perhaps moreeffectively, for women from liberal arts colleges as compared to women facultymembers at Ph.D.-granting institutions. We will share our findings on horizontalmentoring strategies for academic women in a variety of venues, including asummit meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 3-5, 2010. www.hmc.edu/nsfadvance3
ALLIANCE PARTICIPANTSAlliance #1ChemistryAlliance #2ChemistrySunhee ChoiMiddlebury CollegeJanis LochnerLewis and Clark CollegeBridget GourleyDePauw UniversityJulie MillardColby CollegeKerry KarukstisHarvey Mudd CollegeNancy MillsTrinity UniversityMiriam RossiVassar CollegeJoanne StewartHope CollegeLaura WrightFurman UniversityMelissa StraitAlma CollegeAlliance #3ChemistryAlliance #4PhysicsRuth BeestonDavidson CollegeCindy BlahaCarleton CollegeJill GrangerSweet Briar CollegeAmy BugSwarthmore CollegeDarlene LopreteRhodes CollegeAnne CoxEckerd CollegeLeslie LyonsGrinnell CollegeLinda FritzFranklin & Marshall CollegeCarol Ann MiderskiCatawba CollegeBarbara WhittenColorado College4
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OFALLIANCE MEMBERSAlliance #1Alliance #2Alliance #3Alliance #45
ALLIANCE MEETINGS TO DATEAlliance #1 in Chicago, October 2008Alliance #2 in Portland, June 2007Alliance #3 in Memphis, June 20096
NSF-ADVANCE Alliance & Network EventsNSF-ADVANCE-PAIDgrant awarded1st mtg - Alliance#22nd mtg - #23rd mtg - #22006200720081st mtg- Alliance#42nd mtg #44th mtg #2NetworkReception - SaltLake City3rd mtg - #420091st mtg - Alliance#1Network1st mtg Reception New2nd mtg - Alliance #3Orleans#13rd mtg 2nd mtg #1#34th mtg #12010Summit Meeting2011ACS Symposium San Francisco3rd mtg - #35th mtg #1Left – Network gatheringat the AmericanChemical Societymeeting in New Orleansin March 2008 Right – At the ACSmeeting in Salt Lake Cityin March 2009 7
Professional Development Focus ofAlliance #1 – Leadership and Visibility onCampus and in Professional SocietiesAlliance #1 Leadership and HonorsMellon l submittedMellon Group initialmeeting3rd mtg200420052nd mtg - CareerConsultant JanetBickelLWFurman Awardfor MeritoriousNSF-ADVANCE-PAIDTeachinggrantBG Oxnam Award1st mtgfor Service5thmtg4thmtg2ndmtg3rdmtg4th mtg2006LWACS SectionChair-elect2007BG Dept ChairKK CUR 2006Co-chair andPres-electSC CarnegieVermontProfessorof the Year2008BG CURSecretaryBG DePauwUnivDistinguishedProfessorship2009BG Dept ChairSC McCullough 2nd ApptProf. of ChemMR US Natl Commfor CrystallographyMR FulbrightScholar award2010KK Platt Chair inEffective TeachingKK ResearchKeynote AddressMR Mary LandonSague Prof. of ChemCampus leadership and honors include endowed professorships, a department chair position, a serviceaward, a teaching award, and an research keynote address. Professional leadership includes aFulbright Award, CUR Presidency and Secretary officer positions, ACS Local Section Chair, VermontProfessor of the Year, US National Committee on Crystallography membership.8
Professional Development Focus ofAlliance #2 – Creation of CareerDevelopment ResourcesAlliance #2 Career Development ResourcesNetwork1st meeting 3rd mtg - Trinity Reception ChicagoNew- "Balance"Orleans200720082nd mtg - Lewis& Clark "Dealing withDifficult People"NetworkReception - SaltLake City20094th mtg Chicago "ProfessionalPresence"20105th mtg - Colby "StrategicCareerPlanning"Strategic CareerPlanningWorkshop atColby College,June 20099
Professional Development Focus ofAlliance #3 – Exchange of Expertise andBest PracticesAlliance #3 - Exchange of Expertise and Best PracticesJill Granger andNetworkCarol AnnCatawba mathRuth BeestonReception Miderski'sfaculty1st mtg co-teachSalt Lake Citystudentjoinsparticipate in JillAlliance #3 Chemistry byNancy Mills'Granger'sInquiry: Art andresearch group2ndteacherScience(Alliance #2)mtgeducation grant20082009Carol AnnNetworkMiderski usesReception - alliance toNancy Mills (AllianceNewsuccessfully#2) gives Iota SigmaOrleans achieve equity in Pi keynote at Sweetteaching loadsacross theCollegeBriar College (Alliance#3)20103rd mtgFacultyDevelopmentWorkshop onInterdisciplinaryScience at SweetBriar CollegeACS SymposiumSanFranciscoPersonal impacts include the design of new courses and new teacher-outreach efforts from thesharing of expertise. Institutional impacts include a reduction in teaching load for science faculty atCatawba College through sharing of information on contact hours at alliance campuses and newinterdisciplinary collaborations at Sweet Briar College following an NSF-ADVANCE-supported facultydevelopment workshop on contemporary research in biology.10
Professional Development Focus ofAlliance #4 – Career DirectionsAlliance #4 Career Directions1st meeting - St.Louis2008AAPTPresentation Washington DC3rd mtg - Media,PA20092nd mtg - BuenaVista, CO20102011Project SummitMeeting Washington D.C.Discussions have focused on such issues as: Creating an internal rather than external definition of success; having differentmodels of success at a liberal arts college. Examining the barriers to changing research directions or getting back intoresearch at a small college. Considering alternative career paths for women scientists at liberal arts colleges.11
CAMPUS OUTREACH EFFORTSColby CollegeJulie Millard - Alliance #2Eckerd CollegeAnne Cox - Alliance #4A Strategic Career Planning workshop led byDr. Suzanna Rose of Florida InternationalUniversity was held on July 24 and 25, 2009 forAlliance #2 in the NSF-ADVANCE project incollaboration with Colby’s Forum for Women inScience. The workshop included individualcareer planning meetings with Dr. Rose andsessions on negotiation and brainstorming oncritical career issues.Reading club of the STEM women duringthe Fall 2008 semester to discuss thevolume Challenge of the Faculty Career forWomen: Success and Sacrifice. Theoverall group broke into triads that includedtwo women in the natural sciences and onein the behavioral sciences, with one tenuredwoman in each group. The triads met everytwo weeks and the entire group of 12women faculty members gathered at theend of the semester to reflect on theexperience.Furman UniversityLaura Wright - Alliance #1Lunch for the women STEM faculty in July2008 to discuss a variety of issues includingthe low numbers of female STEM juniorfaculty. As a result of the lunch, the women atFurman began a book discussion group thatmeets monthly to work on leadershipdevelopment and to discuss ways to enhanceeach of their positions at the University.Swarthmore CollegeAmy Bug - Alliance #4Meeting of the junior and senior womenfaculty members in STEM fields with theAssociate Provost on November 10, 2008to identify the specific needs of pre-tenurefaculty that the institution or senior facultymight be able to fulfill.12
CAMPUS OUTREACH EFFORTSCatawba College – Carol Ann Miderski – Alliance #313
CAMPUS OUTREACH EFFORTSHarvey Mudd CollegeKerry Karukstis - Alliance #1Gathering of the women STEM faculty on July 17, 2008 to listen to the Inside Higher Ed AudioConference “Faculty Careers for Women” presented by Maike Ingrid Philipsen, author ofChallenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,2008). Monthly lunch meetings of the women STEM faculty during the Fall 2009 semester todiscuss Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice and possible facultydevelopment implementation plans on campus. As part of this initiative, a questionnaire wascreated to explore issues cited in Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women.Sweet Briar CollegeJill Granger - Alliance #3Science faculty expressed a concern that campus programs and senior faculty were not keeping upwith the growing interdisciplinary nature of science. A decision was made to invite an externalspeaker to campus to provide professional development for faculty in the form of information aboutsignificant contemporary interdisciplinary research questions and to highlight career paths andinternship opportunities for students. Dr. Brett Tyler, Professor of Plant Pathology and Physiologyand Chair of the Admissions Committee for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Genetics,Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (GBCB) at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI),visited on April 6, 2009. He presented a talk entitled Transdisciplinarity: The face of modern biology.How you can prepare for it. A subsequent discussion meeting of the science faculty was held on April16, 2009 to develop an action plan to increase opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborationbetween departments for curriculum development, faculty research, and student mentoring.14
Impact of a Single Campus Outreach EffortHarvey Mudd College women faculty participate in Inside Higher Ed Audio Conferenceon “Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice” by MaikeIngrid Philipsen – June 17, 2008Questionnaire developed to explore issues citedin “Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women”Questionnaire completed atmeetings of alliances #1, 3, &4 in 2008-09Women faculty at 4 campuses complete questionnaire and participate in relatedoutreach activities during 2008-09Sweet Briar CollegeSwarthmore CollegeSMET Women designFaculty DevelopmentWorkshop onInterdisciplinary CurriculaWomen faculty meet withassociate provost todiscuss climate for womenHarvey Mudd CollegeEckerd CollegeWomen faculty organize discussiongroup on Philipsen bookHarvey Mudd CollegeEckerd CollegeJuly 2009 - A new listserve is established toopen communications among the HMCcommunity on children and parentingJuly 2009 - Questionnaire results are consideredin design of new faculty orientation, particularly toaid faculty in developing research plans15
SAMPLE PROJECT FINDINGS TO DATEFrom initial surveys and in-depth formative interviews with alliance membersby our project evaluator Anne-Barrie Hunter, Co-Director, Ethnography &Evaluation Research, UC-Boulder, some findings to date include:REASON FOR PARTICIPATING The majority of alliance members (73%) cited the opportunity to get advicefrom other senior women science faculty as their prime motivation forparticipating in the initiative. Taking advantage of “an incredibleopportunity”, aiming to overcome a “feeling of isolation”, and participatingas a means to “mentor other women in science” were also cited.PREVIOUS MENTORING EXPERIENCE Three-quarters of participants noted that no formal mentoring programexisted when they were hired by their institution. Just over half of theinstitutions have recently established a mentoring program. Severalindividuals experienced informal mentoring with varied degrees ofsuccess. Some noted institutional cultures that discourage mentoring.Several had male colleagues who made a concerted effort to help themearly on in their academic careers.16
SAMPLE PROJECT FINDINGS TO DATEVALUE OF THE HORIZONTAL MENTORING EXPERIENCE Alliance members overwhelming view their horizontal mentoring experienceas highly valuable. Participants feel as though they are “among equal peers”with the “sharing of advice and ideas”; they experience “genuine support”for both their “professional and personal lives”; they “face the samechallenges”; they value hearing a “different perspective, an outsideviewpoint”; alliance members have “become friends”, they “trust oneanother”. Horizontal mentoring is “a different kind of mentoring you don'tget anywhere else“. Participation has “increased their confidence” andencouraged them to think about their own professional development.MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION Three of the four alliances rely on regular electronic communicationbetween alliance meetings.SATISFACTION WITH CAREER The majority of participants are happy with their careers and appreciate theliberal arts context: its intellectual breadth, the mix of teaching and research itafforded, and working closely with students.17
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONSNITLE SUMMIT - April 3-5, 2008. “Real-Time Collaboration for the Liberal ArtsCommunity”, Bridget GourleySoutheastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society- November 14,2008, "Horizontal Mentoring Alliances to Enhance the Academic Careers of SeniorWomen Chemists at Liberal Arts Institutions“, Kerry Karukstis, Laura Wright, BridgetGourley, Miriam RossiK. K. Karukstis, “Women in Science, Beyond the Research University: Overlookedand Undervalued,” The Chronicle of Higher Education 55 41 p. 23 ce-Beyond-th/46984/L. Wright, “Strength in Numbers”, Furman Magazine, Summer 2009, pp. .pdfStatement Submitted for the Record, House Science and Technology Committee,Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Hearing on Encouraging theParticipation of Female Students in STEM Fields, July 21, 2009.Contributions from Kerry K. Karukstis. Published in the Congressional Record.Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society - October 22,2009, “Horizontal Mentoring, It's Not Just for Students Anymore”, Carol Ann m/Paper75602.html18
UPCOMING DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES239th American Chemical Society National MeetingMarch 21-25, 2010, San FranciscoThe co-principal investigators of this project have organized the symposium“Successful Mentoring Strategies to Facilitate the Advancement of WomenFaculty”. The event is co-sponsored by the Division of Chemical Education,the Women Chemists Committee, and the Younger Chemists Committee ofthe American Chemical Society.ADVANCE Project Summit MeetingJune 2-4, 2010, Washington D.C.The purpose of the summit meeting will be to create recommendations onenhancing the visibility and leadership of senior STEM women faculty atliberal arts institutions. A monograph will be prepared including whitepapers written in advance of the meeting as well as summaries of summitdiscussions and recommendations; this publication is intended to contributeto the national knowledge base on practices that can enhance the careeradvancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.19
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWe gratefully acknowledge the support for this project from:Collaborative NSF-ADVANCE-PAID Awards HRD-061840,0619027, 0619052, & 0619150Project Evaluator Anne-Barrie Hunter, Co-director, Ethnography& Evaluation Research, University of Colorado, BoulderDePauw University, Harvey Mudd College, Furman University,and Vassar dukerry du20
Harvey Mudd College women faculty participate in Inside Higher Ed Audio Conference on "Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice" by Maike Ingrid Philipsen - June 17, 2008 Questionnaire developed to explore issues cited in "Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women" Questionnaire completed at
