Conference Session

ADVANCE and Related Faculty Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University; Sue Guenter-Schlesinger, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

(14), demographics (8), job satisfaction (25), mentoring (8),leadership (7), department climate (14), professional development (13), and equal opportunity(13). The intention was only to capture a snapshot of faculty perceptions. We further exploredunderlying factors affecting these perceptions in smaller Focus Groups, which were administeredby our research associate (RA) in order to assure confidentiality (the possible sample size is verysmall).The survey was intended to only identify large-scale climate issues within CST. Because of thelength of the survey, we decided that it would be best to capture the big picture of climate issuesin the survey and then have discussions/presentations and focus groups later. Thus, we couldpresent our