“Leading to Excellence”
NSF ADVANCE Grant: Project CEOS (Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State)
The goal of Project CEOS is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers through research-based interventions that transform the workplace culture. These interventions will increase women’s participation in the scientific and engineering workforce at Ohio State. Participating colleges include Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences; Engineering; and Veterinary Medicine.
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Transformational Leadership Model
Project CEOS partnering with the Women's Place to offer Lab Management series
We are proud to welcome this year's participants to a lunchtime brown bag workshop series “Skills for Managing Your Research Team and Laboratory” for women faculty—tenured and tenure-track, clinical and research. The Women’s Place sponsored a similar workshop series in 2005 which was very well received.
The workshops will be held over the autumn and winter quarters on Fridays from 11:30 to 1:45 in room 400 of Stillman Hall. The dates for the fall quarter workshops are as follows:
October 7 Strengths Assessment
October 21 Recruiting, Interviewing and Hiring Staff
November 4 Staff Performance Evaluations; Dismissing Staff
November 18 Difficult Conversations
The dates for the winter quarter workshops are yet to be determined, but we expect to offer two in January and two in February, again on Fridays from 11:30 to 1:45. The winter quarter topics are: 1) building and managing an effective team, (2) project management, (3) creating and managing budgets, and (4) grant writing and commercialization.
The primary reference material for this series will be the book "Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty"
Project CEOS releases Mid-Project Research Report
The CEOS team is proud to announce that our first project report is now available. This report provides insight into our process and the data that we have gathered thus far. To read the report click here.
Project CEOS Proud to Announce Action Learning Teams Now Formed!
Deans in our three participating colleges have assembled teams of chairs dedicated to changing the culture of their colleges. With the help of facilitators from the University HR department, the teams will determine their most pressing local issues, set specific goals and learn from putting ideas into action. Examples of topics that teams may choose to incorporate into their plans include the development of strategies to increase the use of flexible career policies, efforts to create transparent decision-making processes, or the creation of opportunities for faculty networking.
We are very glad to welcome these teams to this promising project for culture change within each college. The College of Veterinary Medicine team consists of Drs. Jean Sander, Rustin Moore, Mary Jo Burkhard, Prosper Boyaka, Tom Wittum and Don Krueger. From the College of Engineering we welcome Drs. Robert Lee, Cheena Srinivasan, Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Barbara Wyslouzil, and Chase Canfield. And from the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics we are joined by Drs. Peter Curtis, Luis Casian, Tina Henkin, Claudia Turro, Rick Freeman, and Barbara Keyfitz.
We thank each member of these teams for leading the way to excellence in our colleges. We anticipate that cross-college teams will be ready to form by the middle of next year.
Transformational Leadership Model
To achieve these goals, a Transformational Leadership Model has been developed that will:
- Improve recruitment and retention of women and minority faculty
- Improve diversity of faculty and students
- Augment the pool of senior women available for leadership positions
Project CEOS Leadership
The co-investigators and management structure include representation from seven colleges/schools and the Office of Human Resources (view complete list):
- Dr. Jill Bystydzienski: professor and chair, Department of Women’s Studies, College of Humanities
- Dr. James Beatty: professor and chair, Department of Physics, College of Biological Sciences
- Dr. Anand Desai: professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs
- Dr. Joan Herbers (principal investigator): professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, College of Biological Sciences
- Dr. Anne Massaro: project manager, Office of Human Resources
- Dr. Carolyn Merry: professor and chair, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Sciences, College of Engineering
- Dr. Mary Jo Burkhard: associate professor, Department of Veterinary BioSciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Dr. Susan Williams: professor, Department of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
- Dr. Valerie Lee: professor, Department of English and Vice Provost for Dviersity and Inclusion
- Dr. Mary Juhas: Associate Dean for Diversity & Outreach, College of Engineering, Clinical Associate Professor.
This information is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. HRD-0811123. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
