College of Science Diversity Project: Department-Centered Inquiry

First Round, Spring 2004

History of the Project

• Seed money from Dean and Provost ($25,000 each).
• A chance for departments to formulate home-grown strategies rather than respond to externally imposed ones.
• Strategies based on facts and evidence---this project provides funding for gathering them.
• Provost has committed to seeking funding for meritorious large-scale projects that emerge.

Department of Physics

• Internal self-study followed by a site-visit by the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics

Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

• Improving minority student recruitment survey/interview of high school counselors and students.

Department of Mathematics

• Investigation of the leaky pipeline hypothesis; analysis of applicant pool for faculty positions.

Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry (joint proposal)

• Presentation of gender analysis of chemistry departments by Valerie Kuck
• Workshop on negotiation skills
• Analysis of recommendation letters in Chemistry and Biochemistry