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<div class="comp-main-content__sections"> <div class="comp-main-content__section"> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-left"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="left"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Bond-2-cropped_tcm18-345017.jpg?w=l" alt="ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity's faculty director, Psychology Prof. Meg Bond" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Tory Wesnofske</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Psychology Prof. Meg Bond, the former director of the Center for Women and Work, is the faculty director of the new ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="comp-main-content__section__content"> <div class="comp-main-content__section__content-inside"> <p> 11/30/2021 <br /><em>By </em><em>Katharine Webster</em> </p> <p>Changing any campus culture is hard, but UMass Lowell has made inroads under a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that aimed to remove career barriers for women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math. </p><p><a title="Making Waves - ADVANCE landing page" href="/research/advance/">Making WAVES (Women Academics Valued and Engaged in STEM)</a>, which launched in 2016, was supported by a five-year, $3.5 million ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant awarded to the <a title="CWW landing page" href="/research/cww/">Center for Women and Work</a>.</p><p>Now, the grant is winding down – but the institutional transformation it promises is just getting started. </p><p> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-right"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="center"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Making%20WAVES%20leaders-cropped_tcm18-345016.jpg?w=l" alt="The original Making WAVES leadership team will continue to guide the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity at UML" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Tory Wesnofske</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Making WAVES promoted faculty equity for five years under a $3.5 million ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant. From left: Bond, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Julie Chen, guest speaker Prof. Lisako McKyer, Plastics Engineering Assoc. Prof. Meg Sobkowicz-Kline, Chemistry Prof. Marina Ruths and Brita Dean, now program director for the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> The brand-new, permanent <a title="ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity" href="/academics/provost-office/faculty-success/advance/">ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity</a> will carry it forward, with support from the provost’s office, by working with all faculty to improve equity for underrepresented and marginalized groups within their ranks.</p><p>“It’s by faculty and for faculty,” says <a title="Psychology landing page" href="/fahss/psychology/">Psychology</a> Prof. <a title="Bond-Meg" href="/fahss/psychology/faculty/bond-meg.aspx">Meg Bond</a>, who is serving as faculty director of the new office. “We want faculty from across the campus to help us build upon our success and develop new programs that promote equity.”</p><p>The new office, with Program Director <a title="Dean-Brita" href="/academics/provost-office/contact/dean-brita.aspx">Brita Dean</a>, a leadership team of full-time faculty and a broad advisory board, builds on programs that were created and tested under Making WAVES. </p><p>Making WAVES research led by Bond and Psychology Assoc. Prof. Michelle Haynes-Baratz included campus climate surveys of full-time faculty and daily bias surveys both inside and outside UML to better understand what issues presented barriers to faculty success. </p><p>The Making WAVES team also created and tested practical interventions to address gender bias, including training faculty “bystanders” to intervene when women faculty are subjected to subtle bias in the form of microaggressions – everyday slights, stereotypes and indignities that seem minor when viewed individually, but that can add up to make the recipient feel like a misunderstood or unwanted outsider. </p><p> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-left"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="center"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Haynes-Baratz-cropped_tcm18-345015.jpg?w=l" alt="Psychology Assoc. Prof. Michelle Haynes-Baratz led much of the Making WAVES research at UML" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Adrien Bisson</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Psychology Assoc. Prof. Michelle Haynes-Baratz is a key researcher on the Making WAVES team. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> Faculty equity leaders helped to develop and now lead the bystander trainings, which have been expanded to address other marginalized identities and groups, including faculty of color and LGBTQ faculty.</p><p>Making WAVES also provided alternatives to traditional mentoring programs and worked with UML’s colleges and departments to bring greater equity and accountability to their hiring, promotion and tenure practices. Likewise, it identified and addressed university-wide structures and norms that can contribute to discrimination and inequality.</p><p>Among the research findings by Making WAVES was that the bystander training was effective in teaching faculty how to intervene when they witnessed a microaggression. In follow-up surveys, faculty who had gone through the training reported intervening more often, says Tugba Metinyurt, a post-doctoral fellow who also worked on Making WAVES research as a master’s and Ph.D. student. </p><p>“The subtlety of microaggressions can mean people have a hard time putting their finger on them and knowing how to respond,” she says. </p><p> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-right"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="center"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Tugba-1-cropped_tcm18-345012.jpg?w=l" alt="Tugba Metinyurt is a post-doc on the Making WAVES research team at UML" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Courtesy</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology Tugba Metinyurt says the faculty bystander training is effective in empowering people to intervene in microaggressions. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> While targets of more explicit discrimination can seek redress through UML’s Title IX coordinator and the <a title="EOO" href="/hr/equal/">Equal Opportunity and Outreach</a> office, microaggressions – which may even stem from apparently good intentions – need to be addressed differently, says Haynes-Baratz. </p><p>“Ignoring this more subtle and insidious form of bias can be equally harmful. Due to chronic stress, it can cause physical problems and mental health problems,” she says. “That’s why it’s crucial to address the workplace culture by establishing new social norms within the classroom, the workplace and society.”</p><p>Other research using faculty focus groups, led by <a title="Biomedical landing page" href="/engineering/biomedical/">Biomedical Engineering</a> Prof. <a title="Punnett-Laura" href="/research/cph-new/our-team/punnett-laura.aspx">Laura Punnett</a> and the <a title="cph-new landing page" href="/research/cph-new/">Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace</a>, found that faculty thought that UML’s overall equity climate had improved over the past few years. Although the focus groups didn’t know that they were evaluating Making WAVES, many of the improvements they cited were connected to the program.</p><p> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-left"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="center"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Yanfen-Li-cropped_tcm18-345014.jpg?w=l" alt="Asst. Prof. Yanfen Li in Biomedical Engineering is part of the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity leadership team at UML" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Adrien Bisson</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Biomedical Engineering Asst. Prof. Yanfen Li is among the new faculty on the office's leadership team. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> Now, Bond says, the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity will institutionalize successful WAVES initiatives and expand to include faculty across the university. </p><p><a title="Announcement of Making WAVES research events" href="/myuml/submissions/2021/2021-11-22-10-19-53-town-halls-for-making-waves-survey.aspx">The Making WAVES team will present the results of their research to the campus community</a> online on Dec. 1 and in person on Dec. 9. That will be followed by an in-person <a title="Announcement of ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity kickoff event" href="/myuml/submissions/2021/2021-11-19-11-52-57-from-the-top-by-faculty-for-facu.aspx">kickoff event for the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity</a> on Dec. 13, when the leadership team will talk about their equity goals and invite faculty to help develop new initiatives or expand and improve on those that are already underway. </p><p>“We’re looking at how we can create the supports and resources for some of these things to emerge organically,” Bond says. </p><p>One widespread concern the office plans to address is equity in faculty service assignments, such as advising, directing undergraduate and graduate programs, and serving on committees, Bond says. Another is the need for more places and groups where faculty can share their personal and professional challenges – and find support.</p><p> <div class="comp-media-item comp-media-item--type-image comp-main-content__section__media comp-main-content__section__media--position-right"> <figure> <div> <div class="image" data-focus="center"> <img src="/Images/ADVANCE-Faculty%20Equity%20Leaders-cropped_tcm18-345013.jpg?w=l" alt="Faculty equity leaders at UML win an award for their work developing and leading bystander trainings" /> <span class="c-attribution">Image by Tory Wesnofske</span> </div> </div> <figcaption> <div class="caption"> <div> Faculty equity leaders receive a university Pillars of Success Award in 2019. From left to right: Bond, Sobkowicz-Kline, former Theatre Arts Asst. Prof. Dale Young, Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, Chemistry Assoc. Teaching Prof. Jessica Garcia, postdoctoral research fellow Yun Ling Li, Management Asst. Prof. Karoline Evans and Electrical and Computer Engineering Prof. Xingwei Wang. </div> </div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> “We want to help faculty find spaces where you can bring your whole self, so that as you think about your professional development, it’s not so segmented from who you are as a whole person in the world,” she says.</p><p>The new office will also offer support to existing efforts, such as peer mentoring groups and launch programs for new faculty, and it will collaborate with or help to implement the recommendations of other university equity groups, including a “Family Friendly Campus” initiative led by <a title="English page" href="/fahss/english/">English</a> Assoc. Prof. <a title="Vinson-Jenna-CWW" href="/research/cww/people/associates/vinson-jenna.aspx">Jenna Vinson</a>, the 2019 <a title="Task Force landing-page" href="/prevent/task-force/">Task Force on Sexual Harassment</a>, and the ongoing <a title="Council on Social Justice" href="/social-justice-inclusion/">Council on Social Justice and Inclusion.</a></p><p>The original Making WAVES leadership team included Bond, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation <a title="Chen-Julie" href="/engineering/mechanical-industrial/faculty/chen-julie.aspx">Julie Chen</a>, Haynes-Baratz, <a title="chemistry landing page" href="/sciences/chemistry/">Chemistry</a> Prof. <a title="Ruths-Marina" href="/sciences/chemistry/people/ruths-marina.aspx">Marina Ruths</a> and <a title="Plastics landing page" href="/engineering/plastics/">Plastics Engineering</a> Assoc. Prof. <a title="Sobkowicz-Kline-Margaret" href="/swimmer/people/sobkowicz-kline-meg.aspx">Meg Sobkowicz-Kline</a>. </p><p>They will all continue to serve on the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity leadership team and will be joined by <a title="Management landing page" href="/msb/departments/management/">Management</a> Asst. Prof. <a title="Evans-Karoline" href="/msb/faculty/evans-karoline.aspx">Karoline Evans</a>, <a title="History landing page" href="/fahss/history/">History</a> Prof. <a title="Forrant-Robert" href="/honors/people/forrant-robert.aspx">Robert Forrant</a>, <a title="mechanical landing page" href="/engineering/mechanical-industrial/">Mechanical Engineering</a> Assoc. Prof. <a title="Hansen-Christopher" href="/swimmer/people/hansen-christopher.aspx">Christopher Hansen</a> and Biomedical Engineering Asst. Teaching Prof. <a title="Li-Yanfen" href="/research/caas/faculty/li-yanfen.aspx">Yanfen Li</a>. 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