<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">dear all,</div><div dir="ltr">as a former female cap member i would like to respond with a different perspective. i served on cap when i was full, step 2 and 3. i appreciate jean’s point about it being a lot of work, but in my experience this was really only the case the first year. one learns how to read files quickly and efficiently and by the second year it’s not bad. and i don’t feel it interrupted my career in any significant way.</div><div dir="ltr">on the flip side, the pay off for having women on the committee is enormous! i can’t tell you how many times i and other women/minorities picked up on subtle forms of gender bias in the teaching evaluations that male colleagues were not attuned to. it led to very productive a d educational conversations. it’s critical in other less tangible ways for women to be part of the discussion at the top levels of the univ.</div><div dir="ltr">so, even though i appreciate jean’s email, i very much diasagree and feel women’s particpation is absolutely essential.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">best,</div><div dir="ltr">ann</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 21, 2021, at 5:17 PM, Jean Helwege <<a href="mailto:helwege@ucr.edu">helwege@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>As one of the three women on CAP this academic year, I wish to respond to the proposal to add more women to the committee. UCR's version of CAP requires a tremendous amount of time and I do not think it is a good career move to join it unless one is a full professor at the level of at least step six. I am a full professor at step IV and I believe my participation on CAP will prevent me from reaching step VII before I retire (I am 62). </div><div><br></div><div>CAP typically reviews 400 files a year and each file is discussed for at least a few minutes, if not ten minutes. At other UCs, CAP does not review every file or does not review it each time a merit step is considered. So by asking for more females on CAP the WFA is essentially asking more women to give up their research time to do work that most UCs do not impose on their female faculty. CAP meets for six hours nearly every week during the school year and meets several times in the summer. To do the work appropriately, the first and second reader must spend time outside of the meetings to prepare. The preparation is all the more onerous because confidentiality concerns limit the amount of printing/saving of files one can do and the amount one can safely write down. In other words, a CAP member who is the first or second reader can expect to spend at least an hour outside of those six meeting hours. There are nine of us who serve as first or second so the typical CAP member has 400/9 =44 files to work on outside of the meetings. The first reader is required to write up the minutes of his/her cases and the second reader reviews and, if necessary, edits the minutes. In addition, the committee writes memos about various topics and these are crafted by sending emails back and forth between the members. These emails often show up on the weekends. The assignment is onerous to anyone, but certainly more so to any professor who is trying to publish at as fast a pace as her colleagues. </div><div><br></div><div>Given the few female professors who are even at the full level, let alone past step six, I believe asking for more female representation on the committee is not a good method of ensuring equity on campus. That is not to say that I think the WFA should not push for greater gender equity. The discrepancies in faculty status by gender are not easily understood on this campus. CAP does not have any aggregate statistics to use in evaluating fairness but having looked at so many files I have some guesses as to why women seem to progress through the steps more slowly than men here. It would be helpful for the WFA to obtain such data and base its proposals on the outcomes of its analysis. </div><div><br></div><div>For example, I have seen a fairly large number of merit cases in the sciences that have very little undergraduate teaching. If a merit file has only six course evaluations and they are all for graduate courses with fewer than ten students, I think it is unlikely that those six courses would have low student evaluations. Thus, it is unlikely that the department, dean, CAP or VPAP would conclude the professor has weak teaching. This makes it more likely that a good researcher is eligible for a promotion. It would be interesting to know if there is a gender gap vis a vis class size and whether the gap, if it exists, has an impact on the speed of promotion through the steps.</div><div><br></div><div>Jean Helwege</div><div>Anderson Chair in Finance</div><div>School of Business</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:24 PM Jennifer Hughes <<a href="mailto:jennifer.hughes@ucr.edu">jennifer.hughes@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:black">Dear Constituents <i>and Allies</i> of the Women's Faculty Association (an organization that is seeking to become more inclusive with respect to gender diversity), <u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We are writing at the close of a very long and challenging year to update you regarding WFA activities.<span>
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<span style="color:black">1) <u>WFA Academy of Distinguished Faculty Mentors</u><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">The</span> WFA is launching a new Academy of Distinguished Faculty Mentors.<span> </span>Faculty may select a mentor from our list for up to three individual
meetings of about an hour in length to discuss merit and promotion at all levels, trajectories of research, the “path to full professor”, balancing research, teaching, and service, navigating the personnel system, and so on. <span><span style="background:white">The
WFA is coordinating our efforts with the mentoring initiative of Katina Napper out of the Academic Personnel Office (APO).</span><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Mentors must be nominated by WFA constituents (not self-nominated) and are required to participate in a short training offered by the APO to make sure their
knowledge of personnel systems is fully up to date. </span><u></u><span style="color:black"> <u></u> <u></u></span><u></u></p>
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<span style="color:black">To nominate someone for the WFA Academy of Distinguished Faculty Mentors, please fill out the survey here (nominees will be contacted but are under no obligation to serve). We invite nominees at all ranks as well as emerita faculty:
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<span style="color:black">2. <u>Expanded leadership</u><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We received 8 nominations for a new WFA Advisory Committee. The current advisory committee members are: </span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Xuan Liu (Biochem)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Aleca LeBlanc (Art History)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">María del Rosario Acosta López (Hispanic Studies)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Isgouhi Kaloshian (Nematology)</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Ruhi Kahn* (Media and Cultural Studies, *representative to CACSW, currently on leave).<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We intend to bring on additional members in the fall.<span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">Note that the nomination list is still open.</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span> </span></span><a href="https://forms.gle/ZuEcHk7W91NR1qzL9" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/ZuEcHk7W91NR1qzL9</a><u></u> <u></u></span><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Katherine (School of Ed) and Jennifer (HIST) will continue as co-chairs for one more year, rotating off in June of 2022.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">3. WFA leadership has scheduled a July meeting with our new EVC/Provost to share WFA issues and initiatives.<span>
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<span style="color:black">We are asking for your feedback on these initiatives and inviting you to suggest others. We will bring these to our meeting with the EVC/Provost:</span></p>
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<span style="color:black">1) <u>Call for comprehensive salary equity study and individual salary equity review upon request</u><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><span> </span>The WFA continues to advocate for comprehensive salary equity review for our campus by gender and race.<span>
</span>Last year, we submitted a written request to the Senate Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CODEI) with requests for specific data and our recommended process.<span>
</span>This year we have been in ongoing communication with CODEI chair and the Vice Provost of Academic Personnel (VPAP).<span>
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<span style="color:black">We have also requested that the campus reinstitute a practice of salary equity review upon individual faculty request.<span>
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<span style="color:black">2)<u>Student Evaluation of Teaching</u><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">The WFA continues to advocate for a substantial revision of our Student Evaluation of Teaching given that multiple studies have indicated that these are highly subject to bias (gender and race).<span>
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<span style="color:black">3) <u>Addressing underrepresentation of women faculty on our campus overall
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<span style="color:black">UCR has the lowest percentage of women faculty in the UC system.<span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0in;background:white"><span style="margin:0px;color:black">The WFA submitted the following modest targets for inclusion part of our campus’s strategic vision plan:<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0in;background:white"><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Measurable improvement in the status of women faculty on the campus. (A) Increase the percentage of female faculty at UCR from current 38% to the system
wide median (42%) by 2025 and to 50% by 2030. (B) Increase the representation of women faculty at Full Professor rank from current 24% to 36% by 2030. (C) Increase the representation of women faculty at the higher rank (Step IV+) from current 18.5% to 30%
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;background:white"><span style="color:black">We continue to seek to address diminishing percentages of women faculty at higher ranks (full professor and above). We observe that there is a lack of parity with
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<span style="color:black">5) <u>Addressing underrepresentation of women faculty on CAP</u><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">We continue to have very low representation of women faculty on key senate committees, the Committee on Committees and Committee on Academic Personnel.<span>
</span>We routinely have among the lowest percentage of women faculty on CAP in the entire UC system.<span>
</span>The WFA has been advocating for the appointment of women faculty to CAP and is calling for parity in communication with senate leadership. This spring we have been at risk falling to 3 or even 2 women faculty on CAP.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">6) In the Spring of 2021 the WFA proposed a change to the CALL for 2021-2 that would allow for the consideration of completed chapters of books in progress for faculty in book-based disciplines for purposes of merit review.
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