Michigan Tech Professor Adrienne Minerick was recently inducted into the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Hall of Fame, one of its highest honors.

Of the six areas of gender bias we examined, we found significant evidence of bias against women in two of them, teaching evaluations and salary. Also, although grants in the United States were gender-fair, elsewhere there was bias.

How can we make this form of external review less onerous for faculty members?

Across academe, women are more likely to leave their faculty positions than men, and attrition is highest for women who have tenure or work in fields outside of science, technology, engineering, and math, according to a new study.

The struggle women face landing senior leadership roles in corporate America is commonly blamed on the "glass ceiling" — the metaphorical gender barrier that blocked their ascent to the highest levels of management. Yet new research indicates that the problems for women in the workforce begin far lower down the professional ladder.

Join 2022 Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi for her thought-provoking speech about her journey from privileged beginnings as the daughter of a MIT professor to overcoming systemic roadblocks in chemistry education on her road to becoming a world renowned chemist, the surprising ways her life changed during the days of the announcement, and what she hopes can be accomplished to bring more people to chemistry after the award.

A report by the American Psychological Association outlines the barriers many faculty members of color face and calls for increased transparency in the tenure and promotion process.

Higher education is finally getting serious about training new department heads.

In this e-letter to Science, Agustin Fuentes proposes to those opposing anti-racism moves in science in the United States to "acknowledge the existing data and analyses, collect more data, run new analyses, and then see how to reframe questions and practices given more refined understandings of the dynamics of systems."

What department chairs can learn about leadership from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

PI Minerick participated in 2022 panel

PI Minerick participated in a panel on  Gender and Racial Equity in Engineering: Perspectives from Academia at the EMD conference in 2022.

Joya Misra, Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O’Meara offer four strategies for ensuring workload and rewards systems equitably recognize the efforts of women faculty of color.

Campus Child Care Has Become Less Available. A New Partnership Aims to Change That

The number of on-campus child-care centers has declined over the last 10 years, with the steepest declines taking place in the community-college sector.

To combat these issues, the National Head Start Association and the Association of Community College Trustees announced a partnership that is meant to put more child-care facilities on campuses.

From the mundanely sexist to the lawsuit-worthy, service work is inequitable.

The growing numbers of women in the position confront a job with mushrooming demands and stresses yet relatively little institutional support, writes Nazli Kibria.

Service, however much one puts in, will factor only so much into tenure and promotion decisions. That’s where the ACE’s other three conditions come in. While transparency, clarity, and credit show us the distribution of labor that we have, norms, context, and accountability — more ecologically oriented factors — help us achieve the distribution that we should have. The former is obviously prerequisite to the latter: You can’t repair without assessing. Accountability norms are deeply relational, concerned as they are with equal access to opportunities and with what we owe to one another (in other words, ethics). 

Another study adds to the litany of concerns about student evaluations of faculty teaching. It says men and women are both at risk from bias in gender-lopsided departments, but women more so.

White able-bodied heterosexual men (WAHM) in STEM experience more social inclusion, professional respect, and career opportunities, and have higher salaries and persistence intentions than STEM professionals in 31 other intersectional groups, says Cech in a study published in Science Advances. 

Balancing Home and School

Family support policies could curb attrition in STEM programs, say O'Brien and Arzua in a November/December 2022 article in American Scientist.