Nancy Aebersold
Panel #1: Best Policies and Practices for Faculty Flexibility
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
"Help for Dual Career Academic Couples"
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Nancy Aebersold is the Director of the Northern California Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) which supports the efforts of each of its member institutions to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, administrators, and staff through the sharing of information and resources. HERC began in Northern California in 2000, bringing campuses together to address challenges of recruitment and retention. As the dual-career director for UC Santa Cruz, Aebersold introduced the idea of a one-stop shopping website for local campuses in 2003. Her idea helped spouses and partners of individuals being transferred into the area find their own employment with local institutions. Members of the HERC consortium benefit from consolidation of resources and an expanded pool of qualified, diverse applicants. The HERC website also gives visibility to some of the smaller schools. HERC regional office includes Southern California HERC (San Diego, CA), New Jersey (Princeton, NJ), New England HERC (Cambridge, MA) upstate New York and the Metro New York and Southern Connecticut regions.
Joan Herbers
Panel #1: Best Policies and Practices for Faculty Flexibility
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
"Part-time on the Tenure-Track: the Nexus Between Policy and Utilization"
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Dr. Joan Herbers has led campus-wide efforts at Ohio State University to develop flexible career policies and improve diversity. She will speak about part-time tenure on the Policies and Practices panel.
Gertrude Fraser
Panel #1: Best Policies and Practices for Faculty Flexibility
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
"Flexibility as a New Norm? Faculty Response is Not Always Trusting of Institutional Motives"
Dr. Gertrude Fraser is an Associate professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at the University of Virginia. As Vice Provost, she oversees university-wide recruitment and retention strategies and practices, and develops initiatives to promote diversity among faculty. Dr. Fraser has served as program director specializing in higher education and scholarship with the Ford Foundation in New York since 2000. In that capacity, she had responsibility for the Ford Foundation's Minority Fellowship Program and worked on the MIT Women in Science project. Her responsibilities at the Foundation included developing grant opportunities for projects to improve university curricula, increase the number of women in science, provide opportunities for minority faculty and graduate students, and to identify exemplary institutions working towards diversity and excellence. Dr. Fraser earned degrees from Bryn Mawr College and The Johns Hopkins University, where she completed her Doctorate in Anthropology. Her career has combined scholarship with action on behalf on strengthening opportunities for women and minorities in higher education.
Ron Hanson
Panel #2: Intersections and Collaborations Among Business, Industry, and Academe
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
"The Future Workforce: Why Should We Include Everyone?"
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Ron Hanson is Vice President, Human Resources for Sauer-Danfoss, Inc., a $2 billion company with over 9400 employees in more than 50 countries supplying highly engineered products to off-road equipment manufacturers around the world. One of Sauer-Danfoss' major operations is in Ames, Iowa. Mr. Hanson also held various Human Relation positions for Maytag Corporation, including Vice-President, Employee Relations. He is a graduate of Iowa State University in the field of Industrial Engineering (B.S.), and he has completed all coursework toward an M.A. in Human Resource Management from the University of Iowa.
Anne C. Petersen
Panel #2: Intersections and Collaborations Among Business, Industry, and Academe
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
"Brain Drain: Why Women Scientists/Engineers Leave Academe and Industry"
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Dr. Anne Petersen has 25 years experience as an active researcher and faculty member, 13 years as an academic administrator, 3 years as the Deputy Director/COO of the National Science Foundation, and nearly a decade as a Senior Vice President for programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. As a scientist, she has a dozen books, more than 200 scientific articles or chapters, and many honors including membership in the Institute of Medicine. All of her degrees are from the University of Chicago, in mathematics, statistics, measurement, and evaluation; her teaching focused on statistics and adolescent development. Her academic administrator roles included department head, collegiate dean, graduate dean, and vice president for research. She has led several scientific societies, academic and community boards and committees, among other service roles. She currently is Deputy Director and Professor of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
Linda Siebert Rapoport
Panel #2: Intersections and Collaborations Among Business, Industry, and Academe
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
"From the Board Room to the Academy - How Promising Corporate Workplace Practices Can Transform the Academic Culture"
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Linda Siebert Rapoport directs the University of Illinois at Chicago's NSF ADVANCE IT award to transform the STEM workplace climate, increase the influence of women faculty, and institutionalize workplace change efforts. Linda brings Fortune 100 corporate and Research 1 academe experience together to create engaging workplaces to attract and retain top talent. Prior to UIC, Linda founded the University of Kentucky's Office of WorkLife now recognized as a leader in academy culture transformation. Linda was the First Vice President/Head of Bank Ones Work-Life and Diversity corporate area for 74,000 employees nationwide. Under Linda's guidance, Bank One was recognized for nine years as one of the nation's "100 Best Places to Work". Prior to Bank One, Linda founded the Citibank Midwest worklife strategy recognized as one of the "60 Best Places to Work". Linda holds a graduate degree from the University of Chicago and is an appointed member of the Conference Board's WorkLife Leadership Council, a group of corporate worklife and organizational change trailblazers.
