Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session I

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Padma Akkaraju, Oregon State University; Joseph McGuire, Oregon State University; Thuy T. Tran, Oregon State University; Andrea Zigler, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Faculty

, students, and staff that is increasingly more inclusive, collaborative, diverse, andcentered on student success. We are meeting this commitment in part through design andimplementation of new and revised practices for recruitment, professional development,mentoring, and advancement. But changing organizational culture is a large-scale undertaking. Inorder to build an organizational conscience for the college and secure its transformation into acommunity where all members feel welcome and engaged, “top-down” policy change must becomplemented by enlistment of change agents from every employment sector of the college. Forthis purpose, a 20-member Change Team — including a balance of tenure-track and professionalfaculty and classified staff — was

Conference Session

Faculty Track - Technical Session II

Collection

2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University; Stacy Blake-Beard, Simmons College; Michele C. Deramo, Virginia Tech; Barbara J. Guthrie, Northeastern University; Kathleen Kenney, Northeastern University; Carol B. Muller, Stanford University; Jan Rinehart, Northeastern University; Rania Sanford, Stanford University; Shawna Vican, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Faculty

the Executive Director of WISE Ventures, an internal initiative at Stanford, designed to communicate, build networks, and help seed new and needed ventures across the Stanford campus to advance gender equity in science and engineering. She also directs Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum. A longtime university administrator, educator, and social entrepreneur, her past experience includes service as Associate Dean for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, where she co-founded the campus-wide Women in Science Project. She founded and was chief executive of MentorNet, a large- scale online nonprofit global mentoring network advancing diversity in engineering and science (1996- 2008). At Stanford, she was