Sketches for U-M ADVANCE/NSF
The U-M ADVANCE Project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the purpose of improving the hiring, retention and institutional climate for women faculty in the sciences and engineering. ADVANCE has commissioned sketches on these topics from the CRLT Players. Sketches concern topics such as mentoring, faculty hiring, and the tenure decision process. All U-M ADVANCE sketches are interactive. Following each sketch, the audience dialogues with the actors, who stay in character. A trained facilitator guides the discussion and provides professional expertise and research-based information about the topic at hand.
Faculty Advising Faculty explores the junior faculty-senior faculty mentoring process and examines the many factors, both individual and institutional, that can hinder or foster effective mentoring.
The Faculty Meeting depicts a faculty discussion involving an important topic (a faculty search) and how gender dynamics and faculty rank influence the conversation and affect the participants. The sketch is designed to improve the recruitment and retention of women faculty in science and engineering.
Tenure Sketch: The Fence. The Fence focuses on a tenure meeting discussion at the executive committee level of a science department. The sketch poses questions regarding the fairness of some common issues and dynamics in tenure discussions and portrays the subtle ways that the gender can affect a committee’s interpretation of the candidate’s scholarship and productivity.
