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September 2007 -- The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) met on Saturday, September 15, 2007, in the ACM office in Chicago. Attending were Mary Crawford (Knox College; Past Chair), Ruth Lanouette (Lawrence University), Karine Moe (Macalester College; Chair), Siobhan Moroney (Lake Forest College), Tricia Waters (Colorado College); Janet McCracken (Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Lake Forest College) attended as the Deans' Liaison; John Ottenhoff (Vice President, ACM) attended as the ACM Liaison; Aparna Thomas (Cornell College) was unable to attend. Under the current membership arrangements for the CSW, Tricia Waters and Mary Crawford will rotate off the committee at the end of the 2007-08 academic year; Karine Moe and Ruth Lanouette serve through 2009; and Aparna Thomas and Siobhan Moroney serve through 2010. Nominations for two new members of the committee will be sought this spring from the following institutions: Ripon (which has not yet had a representative on the committee), St. Olaf, Coe, Monmouth, Grinnell, Carleton, and Beloit. After introductions, the committee briefly reviewed current projects on the campuses, including Lake Forest's Women's Caucus and Colorado's similar caucus group. The Lake Forest group was especially successful in following up on ACM-CSW workshops on Women's Leadership and Negotiating in hosting a campus discussion about salary and negotiation with guest speaker Sara Laschever (co-author with Linda Babcock of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide). The Colorado caucus has also looked at a variety of issues including family leave and tuition remission policy, and has also worked on also bringing a negotiation workshop to CC (due to happen this spring). The group agreed that policies relating to family leave might be a topic for the CSW to take up more systematically with the member colleges. The committee agreed it might be useful to assemble campus plans for family and maternity leave, to gather studies and best practices concerning such policies, and to disseminate this information to help faculty leaders think about these issues. The committee focused most of its attention on planning for a spring workshop, "Women, Teaching, and Authority." The workshop will be on Friday, April 18, 2008, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the ACM office in Chicago. The committee also briefly discussed possible FaCE-sponsored collaborative workshops and voiced particular interest in issues of tenure and promotion disparities, disparities in teaching evaluations, and in evaluation of submissions for publication. March 2007 -- On March 3, 2007, the ACM Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) met at the ACM office and decided to hold a spring 2008 workshop focused on “Women, Teaching, and Authority,” with one faculty participant from each ACM campus. The committee will find a facilitator for that meeting, preferably somebody local to Chicago who has a strong background in educational research. The CSW also discussed the template for assessing climate for faculty members that they worked on in their previous meeting. Drafts had been circulated via e-mail, so the CSW discussed the final touches. This brief report ("Assessing the Status of Women Faculty at the ACM Colleges") was distributed in spring 2007 to all the Academic Deans and Directors of Institutional Research. |
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September 2006 -- At their fall meeting on September 30, 2006 at the ACM office, the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) discussed readings that focus on different methods of assessing campus climate for faculty, staff and students. The committee's goal is to produce a template that ACM colleges can use and/or adapt in their quests to align resources and environment with the needs of the campus community. February 2006 -- The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) met in the ACM office on February 5, 2006. On the day prior to the meeting, the CSW, along with one guest from each of the ACM colleges currently not represented on the CSW, participated in a Negotiating Workshop conducted by Lisa Amoroso (Management, Roosevelt). At the CSW meeting, Mary Crawford (Chemistry, Knox) volunteered to serve as the Chair of the CSW during the academic year 2006-2007. Beth McKinsey (English and American Studies, Carleton), who has served as the Chair for the last two and a half years, will remain on the CSW for one more year to provide continuity. The CSW expressed its thanks to Ms. McKinsey for her service. Marta Tucker (Mathematics and Computer Science, Monmouth) and Gail Bonath (Associate Librarian, Grinnell) will be rotating off the committee, and they were also thanked for their service. The ACM office will be contacting the colleges to request nominations for two new members of the committee to begin a three-year term in fall 2006. The CSW considered options for their future meetings and decided to focus the fall meeting on September 30, 2006, on producing a template for the ACM Deans that focuses on methods for evaluating and assessing the status of women and the environment for women on college campuses. The CSW intends the final template to be a useful resource and reference to aid all of the ACM colleges in their mission to maintain a productive and equitable workplace for all its members. For the spring 2007 meeting, the CSW is considering reading and discussing a book focusing on gender and the academy and then sponsoring discussion groups on their individual campuses. |
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September 2005 -- The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) met at the ACM office on September 24, 2005. Two new CSW members have joined the committee in the fall of 2005, while two former members have rotated off. The majority of the meeting was spent discussing the Women's Leadership Development Seminar (April 2005, Carleton/St. Olaf). The committee members pondered several possible follow-up activities to the Seminar and concurred that the most appropriate would be to focus on academic negotiation. Communication is notoriously difficult, so in response to the many requests made by the participants at the Women's Leadership Development Seminar, the CSW will focus on how to help women faculty negotiate in order to best benefit from and participate in the larger campus community. For the next meeting, the committee proposes to contact a consultant to discuss academic negotiation. In order to extend the benefit of this meeting to all ACM campuses, the CSW will invite one person from the ACM campuses not currently represented on the committee. The consultant will be asked to provide some examples of successful academic negotiation and will also be asked to help the CSW to consider options for other activities that focus on academic negotiation. This first activity will function as a pilot program for later events. In addition, the CSW indicated an interest in getting involved with the upcoming FaCE grant activities for Department Chairs, both the smaller meetings and the larger conference. February 2005 -- The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) met in the ACM Chicago Office on February 12, 2005. The items of the agenda included logistics about the committee's rotation, discussion of the upcoming Women's Leadership Development Seminar, and plans for other activities and discussions. At the first meeting of the reconfigured CSW in January 2004, the committee determined that two members would rotate off in spring 2005. Diana Patten (Coe) and Mary Titus (St. Olaf) volunteered to do so, and the committee thanked them for their contributions, both on the present committee and the former Committee on Women's Concerns. Two more members will rotate off in the spring 2006 and then the final two original members will rotate off in 2007. At that point, there will be regular three-year terms, as originally determined in the charge of all the members. For the appointment of new members, the Committee requested that the Deans of the colleges currently unrepresented on the Committee suggest participants who would be interested in working on the current projects of the committee. The colleges with representative on the committee are not eligible to nominate a second participant. If there is a surplus of nominations, Elizabeth Hayford and Sarah Marino will work with the Chair of the Deans' Executive Committee and the Chair of the CSW to determine who will be appointed. The CSW suggests that after a college has been represented on the committee that there be a one-year hiatus before the college can suggest another representative; for example, Coe and St. Olaf would not be eligible to suggest another representative for the 2005-2006 year, but they would be eligible during the 2006-2007 year. This method allows for more flexibility. The colleges that have not been represented, however, will be given precedence in the appointment process. Because there will be a new Deans' Liaison appointed to the committee, the CSW requests that the Deans appoint somebody -- male or female -- who is interested in supporting the committee and its activities. The committee expresses their formal thanks for Dennis Moore's participation and look forward to working with another ACM Dean. In considering future activities, the CSW would first be interested in learning more about the interest in leadership and professional development for women at the ACM colleges at the spring Women's Leadership Development Seminar. They are also interested in exploring more opportunities for funded activities within the FaCE project. |
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September 2004 -- The second meeting of the committee was September 18, 2004 at the ACM office in Chicago. The CSW reviewed the initiatives that they had developed at the first meeting and decided to concentrate on leadership development. The discussion focused on constructing a grant proposal to the ACM Faculty Career Enhancement Grant (FaCE) for a Women's Leadership Development Seminar. January 2004 -- The first meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women took place on January 16-17, 2004 at Coe College. The committee focused on how to best serve and advise the consortium based upon the principles outlined in the committee's charge. The committee discussed a number of different projects and initiatives. |
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