As a part of SF State’s goal to increase equity in advancement for all faculty, the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation-Catalyst (IT-Catalyst) project at San Francisco State examined the role and effects of faculty service on professional satisfaction and advancement of women faculty in STEM fields at SF State. Research revealed a high service burden for female faculty, further, the service is often rendered invisible or undervalued in retention tenure and promotion decisions. The research team continues this work through the Advance TRANSFORMS project. Follow the links on the right to learn more about the research findings from IT-Catalyst in our research brief and other publications associated with this grant.
Research Brief
The IT- CATALYST project focused on the formal and informal practices of service, how different forms of service are valued, variations in the rewards for service, the satisfaction of faculty in the activities, and the assessment and evaluation of different service roles. This research brief reports findings from three data collection efforts: a survey of STEM faculty members; focus groups conducted with women faculty in STEM fields; and interviews of members of the University Tenure and Promotion Committee (UTPC) and interviews with college deans.
Publications
Domingo, C. R., Gerber, N. C., Harris, D., Mamo, L., Pasion, S. G., Rebanal, R. D., & Rosser, S. V. (2020). More service or more advancement: Institutional barriers to academic success for women and women of color faculty at a large public comprehensive minority-serving state university. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000292
Rosser, S. V., Barnard, S., Carnes, M., & Munir, F "Athena SWAN and ADVANCE: Effectiveness and lessons learned" The Lancet, v.393, 2019
http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33213-6
This essay is the text of Dr. Rosser’s plenary session keynote address at the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) ADVANCE/GSE Program Workshop on October 9, 2017 in Washington, D.C. It was published in the inaugural issue of the ADVANCE journal. https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL1.1.3