FORWARD to Professorship in STEM
Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work

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FORWARD to Professorship in STEM: Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff in their career development.

The book addresses fundamental skills and strategies to excel in academia, with a focus on assisting women and other underrepresented groups to succeed in obtaining tenure-track faculty positions, and in acquiring tenure.

Contributors from wide geographical, disciplinary, and career backgrounds offer their insights on challenges in academia, lessons learned, successes, and outcomes, with chapters devoted to tenure and beyond, collaborations and funding, impact on, and of, the deaf culture, and engaging differences.

Chapter 1. The Origins of Faculty Development in STEMChapter 2. The FORWARD to Professorship WorkshopChapter 3. Path of Professorship: A Student Leadership Model for Catalyzing Change at MITChapter 4. Jumpstarting STEM Careers: The Arizona State University WorkshopsChapter 5. Female STEM Faculty in the Western Pacific: The University of Guam WorkshopChapter 6. When and Where I Enter… Women of Color in STEMM: The University of Toledo WorkshopChapter 7. Conference Design for Diversity and Dialogue: The University of Virginia Model – Women in STEM Empowered to Engage Across Difference Chapter 8. To Tenure and Beyond: Building an Intentional Career in STEM: The Case Western Reserve University WorkshopChapter 9. FORWARD on Tailoring a Personalized Academic Toolbox for Women Professors at Land Grant Institutions: The Oklahoma State University WorkshopChapter 10. Advancing Toward Professorship in Biology, Ecology and Earth System Sciences – The Oregon State University WorkshopChapter 11. Metropolitan Mentors: Building a Network of Women in Mathematics and Computer Science across New York City: The New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York WorkshopsChapter 12. Increasing National Laboratory and University Collaborations: The Career Advancement in Research Environments Workshop Series at Brookhaven National LaboratoryChapter 13. Moving FORWARD in Space: The Temple University WorkshopsChapter 14. FORWARD Workshops: Strategies for Inclusion of the Deaf and Hard of HearingChapter 15. The Participant ExperienceChapter 16. Speakers Find Value in Workshop Participation Chapter 17. Benefits for Workshop OrganizersChapter 18. EvaluationChapter 19. Fortifying the Pipeline to Leadership: The International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics at Drexel University Chapter 20. Synthesis and DiscussionChapter 21. Lessons Learned Going FORWARDAppendix and Resources
  • Offers insights from a variety of institutions, STEM disciplines, and backgrounds
  • Contains valuable information on diversity, leadership, minorities, work-life satisfaction, and professional career development
  • Provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff in their career development
  • Covers topics such as tenure and beyond, collaborations and funding, impact on, and of, the deaf culture, and engaging differences
  • Provides specific avenues and processes for implementing inclusive professional development workshops
  • Includes appendices on budgeting and programming examples