1) Report on Women in Science and Engineering
a) Sustaining Commitment
b) Mentoring & Advising
c) Enabling Academic Science Careers in the Context of Family
Obligations
d) Faculty Development & Diversity
e) Misc. Environmental Factors
2) Report on the Task Force on Women Faculty
a) Oversight Structures
b) Data Collection
c) Faculty Recruitment
d) Faculty Retention
- Faculty Affairs Office
http://www.faculty.harvard.edu/
``The Faculty Affairs website is designed to support Harvard's mission
to find, develop, promote and retain the world's best scholars. You
will find information on faculty recruiting strategies, resources on
scholarship,and institutional policies, benefits, and services for
faculty.''
- Newsfeed about and links to recent events/measures/articles related to aspects of diversity, gender equity etc.
- Good Reference: Senior Vice Provost Evelynn Hammonds' second annual End of Year Report [link from main webpage]
- Office for Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D):
http://www.faculty.harvard.edu/05/
Pilot-Program:
o Research Enabling Grants: competitive 1-year grants for postdocs and
tenure-track faculty to enable research that would otherwise suffer due to significant child care or adult dependent care obligations.
o PhD students & rest: Dependent Care Fund for Short-term Professional Travel
- Clearing House for Child Care @ Harvard
http://www.childcare.harvard.edu/
- Harvard University Office for Postdoctoral Affairs
http://www.postdoc.harvard.edu , e.g.,
o Benefits & Support
o Ombuds office & legal counseling referral
- Guidelines for Faculty Maternity & Parental Leave
a) Paid teaching Relief of 1 semester
b) Massachussetts Maternity Law: 8 weeks of full maternity leave [non-paid]
FMLA: 12 weeks of job-protected parental leave
c) Tenure Clock extension of 1 yr/child
- Data & Metrics
First full faculty climate & demographic composition survey underway [probably without salary information]