Faculty Retention Issues
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QUESTION:
What are the challenges Virginia Tech faces in retaining women faculty
members?
- Improving mentorship:
formal & informal / from new hire through full professor, at all
levels. Mentoring is needed beyond the promotion and tenure process,
such as people for bouncing-off of ideas for grants, helping with making
the jump to large-scale research, and for jump-starting those who have
become stalled after tenure has been awarded, as well as formal career
mentoring programs. (13 votes)
- Salary level discrepancies.
Female faculty do not earn the same salaries as male faculty. (12 votes)
- Lack of sense of
support & appreciation at all levels. Female faculty often feel
isolated, and do not feel that their accomplishments and efforts are
valued or recognized. (9 votes)
- Perception that
VT is a politically/socially backwards place. Whether or not it is true,
VT suffers from a poor reputation in this regard. BOV decisions over
the last few years have made it more visible, but those are not the
only basis for the perception. (7 votes)
- Comparatively unfavorable
teaching & service workloads for women, both formal and informal.
Female faculty feel higher expectations are placed on them. For example,female
faculty receive more requests for committee service, and are often visited
more frequently by students. Female workloads are in general felt to
be much higher than those of men. (7 votes)
- Isolation. Women
faculty feel alone due to the lack of a critical mass in female faculty
ranks. (7 votes)
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