University Committee on Women

University Committee on Women
October 6, 2004
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Hawthorn Market & Café Meeting Room

Present: Rita Marinko, Barbara Kalsem, Jaye Stefani, Virginia Blackburn, Julie Hagen, Carolyn Heising, Julie Manning, Lauri Dusselier, Eileen Thacker, Ingrid Lilligren, Janet Tait, Karla Hardy, Susan Carlson, Vicky Thorland-Oster, Camille Sloan Schroeder, Liz Beck, Ann Thompson

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements

Scheduled meeting with President Geoffroy and Provost Allen
A meeting has been scheduled for President Geoffroy and Provost Allen to meet with a small group from UCW. Prior to this meeting, we would like to have a small group meet to discuss the issues and come up with recommendations for improvement from the reports. The reports are entitled: Status of Women at ISU, and Taskforce on the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty Report, May 2003. (These reports have been sent to the committee, if you need these reports, let Sheley know). Please read the recommendations listed in the reports and provide any comments and/or suggestions to Ann Thomspon. eat@iastate.edu . When we meet with the President and Provost, the group would like to be equipped with an agenda focused on accountability.

The head of the campus climate survey project, Dr. Rankin, will meet with UCW October 15, 10-11 am, St. John’s by the Campus Episcopal Church.
EXPERT ON HIRING DIVERSE FACULTY TO SPEAK, Caroline Turner, Arizona State University, will highlight research from her book "Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success" during a talk Oct. 29 (noon, MU Pioneer Room).

See: http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/04/1022/ae.shtml#turner

Committee Reports
Leadership Committee
The Leadership committee has been working on a series of events for leadership. The first Advancing Women’s Leadership event featuring Sarah Weddington was a big success. We had a great turnout and lots of positive comments and e-mails about Ms. Weddington. Several have suggested that we bring Ms. Weddington back in the spring for the Women’s Leadership Summit. Pat Miller has held space in the Union for Friday, April 15, for this summit.

Other news:
Women's Enrichment Fund mini grant proposals are due Oct. 29. The information about the Mini-Grants is up on two locations.

http://www.provost.iastate.edu/ and http://www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty/diversity.html
Feel free to help get the word out!!!

Title IX Committee
The Title IX committee has started by looking at the information gathered from EADA. The committee will meet to discuss issues in women’s athletics.

Climate Committee
The Climate committee has been looking at the grievance procedures to see if the formal procedures need to be revised. After looking at the current procedures, the climate committee for UCW would like to recommend that a step be added between steps 2 & 3. The committee will make suggestions for intermediate accountability and would like to suggest that mediation be used.

Strategic Planning Committee
In the first draft of the strategic plan there was not enough in the area of diversity. The strategic planning committee added a 5 th goal that emphasizes making ISU a good place to work and live. This was initiated by students who submitted a petition at the Strategic planning meeting. The students had obtained 533 signatures. The students were wanting the strategic plan to address the needs of ISU students (living, welcoming, etc.) and also to address issues of diversity. The 2 nd draft of the strategic plan is due out on October 11.

OPEN FORUM ON STRATEGIC PLAN OCT. 28
Comments on the second draft of the strategic plan for 2005-2010 will be solicited during an open forum Oct. 28 (11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 101 Design). Written comments should be submitted by Oct. 29 to: strategicplan@iastate.edu. The plan goes to the Faculty Senate in November and the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, in February or March.

Second draft: http://www.iastate.edu/~newplan

Next Meeting
The next meeting will be scheduled for the first part of November. Meeting information will be sent to the group.

Adjournment

Recorded by Sheley Johnson