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New Initiatives in Faculty Professional Development: TRANSFORM Lori D. Lindley Grant Team: Karinna M. Vernaza, Elisa M. Konieczko, Weslene Tallmadge, Sreela Sasi, Valerie Bacik, Catherine Datte June 1, 2015 1

TRANSFORM T eaching R esearch A dvancement N etwork to S ecure F emale F aculty F or O rganizational R etention and M anagement  Goal  To increase the recruitment, retention, advancement, and leadership development of STEM female faculty at Gannon.  Vision  To have Gannon University be regionally recognized as an institution supporting and developing female faculty throughout their careers.

Gannon University Snapshot  Catholic, Diocesan university  Located in Erie, PA  Founded in 1925  Enrollment (Fall 2014):  2,593 full-time undergraduate  612 part-time undergraduate  1,205 graduate  4,410 total student enrollment  Approximately 218 full-time faculty  College of Engineering and Business: 49  College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences: 79  Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences: 85  Library: 8 3

Three Strategies  TRANSFORM Strategies  Strategy 1: Dual Career Services  Strategy 2: Research Initiation Award for Early-Career or Mid-Career Faculty  Strategy 3: Leadership Development 4

5 Strategy 3: Leadership Development Activity 1: • Develop a curriculum to prepare all faculty for leadership roles • Training topic domains include leadership and vision, task Leadership demands, and interpersonal communication development • Offer 3 half-day workshops per semester during academic year training • Audience: Department chairs, program directors, academic Activity 2: deans Leaders’ forum • Offer 1 half-day workshop per semester during academic year • Initial goals of climate change and education regarding barriers for climate for female faculty evolved to include general support for new change chairs • One-day culmination of leadership workshops provided Activity 3: throughout the academic year Regional • Keynote speaker brought to address issues for leaders in higher leadership education symposium • Advertised to the Lake Erie tri-state area

Activity 1: Leadership development training  Initial list of topics generated from focus groups and programming at other institutions with NSF-funded professional development  Later topics were generated from feedback on sessions and responses to the evaluation question, “What other topics would you like to see included in future workshops?”  The Strategy 3 team carefully screened and coached any external consultants with regard to the culture of academia and of Gannon in particular, to help them connect with faculty and bring applicable examples 6

Activity 1: Leadership development training Workshop topics 2012-2015  Leadership and self-  Self-awareness and self- knowledge management  Team building  Social awareness and relationship management  Least preferred coworker  Emotional intelligence  Communications Conflict resolution and   Conflict resolution problem-solving strategies  Negotiations  Embracing change and Present like a pro…and get  overcoming resistance results!  The architecture of a positive  Goal setting and 360 feedback work environment  Work life balance  Communicate with impact  Strength-based leadership How to get people to “buy   Power distance into” change 7

Activity 1: Leadership development training Training source 1 External consultant Internal faculty/staff 9 11 Webinar 8

Activity 1: Leadership development training Participation Engineering/ Morosky* CHESS** Staff Total Business Spring 13 14 (30%) 8 (9%) 13 (16%) 14 49 Fall 13 7 (15%) 16 (19%) 18 (23%) 2 43 Spring 14 7 (15%) 11 (13%) 9 (11%) 9 36 Fall 14 17 (37%) 11 (13%) 6 (8%) 7 41 Spring 15 14 (30%) 12 (14%) 8 (10%) 33 36 Percentages indicate percentage of faculty participating from that college * College of Health Professions and Sciences **College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Across all sessions, 92% of participants agree or strongly agree with evaluation items regarding quality, applicability, structure, content, and delivery of programming. 9

Activity 2: Leaders’ forum for climate change (Department chairs and Program directors) Workshop topics 2012-2015 Semester Topic Source Spring 2012 Academic Gender Equality Internal faculty and staff presenters Webinar and Deans’ panel Fall 2012 Effective and Fair Evaluations Spring 2013 Understanding and Avoiding Legal Issues Webinar, university legal counsel and Deans’ panel Fall 2013 Budgeting and Getting the Resources your Webinar, Budget director and Deans’ panel Department Needs Spring 2014 Implicit Bias in Hiring External faculty speaker Fall 2014 Dealing with Difficult People External faculty speaker Spring 2015 Conducting Evaluations and Providing External consultant speaker Feedback 10

Activity 2: Leaders’ forum for climate change (Department chairs and Program directors) Participation Engineering/ Morosky* CHESS** Other Total Business Admin. Spring 13 4 (44%) 9 (47%) 4 (14%) 3 20 Fall 13 2 (22%) 6 (30%) 5 (18%) 1 14 Spring 14 2 (22%) 4 (20%) 7 (25%) 3 16 Fall 14 8 (89%) 5 (25%) 5 (18%) 5 23 Spring 15 5 (56%) 4 (20%) 4 (14%) 1 15 Percentages indicate percentage of administrators participating from that college * College of Health Professions and Sciences **College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences 11

Activity 3: Regional Leadership Symposium  Inaugural event was May 20, 2014  Topic was Transformational Leadership  65 internal attendees  12 regional attendees 12

Activity 3: Regional Leadership Symposium  Second annual event on May 19, 2015  Topic is Project Management  Registration as of May 1:  Internal: 104  External: 7  Leadership series for 2015- 2016 AY is planned as follow-up on this topic 13

Sustainability  Due to recognized value to the university, support has been offered for continuing these initiatives after the conclusion of the grant  The Leadership series (Activity 1) will be funded through Gannon’s Human Resources and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is proposed to be administered by the Associate Deans of the 3 colleges  Training for Chairs and PDs (Activity 2) will be funded and administered through the office of the provost  It has been recommended that the Regional Leadership Symposium (Activity 3) be combined strategically with CETL’s annual regional event 14

15 Acknowledgement THIS WORK IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARD HRD-1107015. Questions?