Lead Advocate: Cris Ababei
cristinel.ababei@marquette.edu
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ADVANCE: Advocates & Allies
Marquette Advocates & Allies Fact Sheet for Hiring Committees
Please click the link above to read about the A&A tools for the following:
1. How to recruit a diverse pool of candidates
2. How to address the potential for implicit bias when conducting candidate interviews
3. How to address the potential for implicit bias when reviewing applicant files
4. Things to remember when engaged in the hiring process
| Welcome to the Marquette University Advocates and Allies (A&A) Men Faculty Gender Equity Initiative and our ongoing gender equity advocacy efforts in academic institutions. |
| The objective of A&A is to intentionally involve faculty men in institutional change to transform departmental cultures and practices with respect to issues of gender equity, particularly in units with very few women.This initiative is inspired and adapted from the Advocates and Allies program developed at North Dakota State University (NDSU) as part of their ADVANCE FORWARD NSF grant over 10 years ago. It was created as a signature program designed to improve gender equity through direct and proactive engagement of men faculty. The program has been replicated at more than 20 universities with ADVANCE awards. Based on the premise that men play a central role in deconstructing (and/or perpetuating) gender-inequities, the signature A&A program was designed to support men faculty, in consultation with women faculty, in gender-equity efforts. It includes two essential components: 1) recognizing the implicit and explicit intersectional manifestations of gendered discrimination and 2) effectively and systematically generating individual behaviors and institutional policies that interrupt inequities and foster gender justice. |
Our Latest Event
Men Allies for Gender Equity Workshop - Featuring: Dr. Roger Green
On November 17 & 18, Advocates & Allies hosted this workshop which helped equip men to serve as effective allies for gender equity in STEM settings. Through interactive dialogue, men from around campus were able to have candid discussions, ask questions and practice skills through scenario-based exercises. Thank you, Dr. Green, for joining us!
Advocates
Senior men faculty who educate themselves about issues of gender [in]equity
ACTIVE ADVOCATES:
RETIRED ADVOCATES:
John Borg, Pat McNamara, Tim Tharp, David Baker, Gabriel Velez, Alan Burkard, H. Richard Friman, Bob Scheidt
Allies
Men faculty whom the Advocates train as proponents for gender equity in their departments. Contact Cris Ababei if you'd like to get involved!
Past Events
- Conference on Advancing Gender Equity for Faculty: Allyship and Inclusive Leadership Strategies
- Men Allies for Gender Equity: Learn to be an effective advocate
Resources:
Expand to see resources listed below.
- Enhancing Department Climate, A Guide for Department Chairs, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 2019.
- Eve Fine and Jo Handelsman, Searching for Excellence and Diversity: A Guide for Search. Committee Chairs, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, 2012.
- Creating a Positive Departmental Climate: Principles for Best Practices, NSF ADVANCE at the University of Michigan, 2007.
- The Male Privilege checklist, An Unabashed Imitation of an Article by Peggy McIntosh, 2019.
- Anicha, A. Burnett, and C. Bilen-Green, “Men Faculty Gender-Equity Advocates: A Qualitative Analysis of Theory and Praxis,” Journal of Men’s Studies, vol. 23, March 2015.
- ADVANCE Annotated Bibliography - Review of literature on supporting women and under-represented faculty in STEM and SBE fields.
- Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace - HBR Top 10 Must-Read, written in part by ADVANCE's Jennica Webster.
May 2022, Dr. Cris Ababei presented the 'Adapting the advocates and allies concept at Marquette University" poster at BGSU's Allies conference. Thank you, Dr. Ababei, for representing us.
Poster by: Ababei, C., Peoples, R.W., Hossenlopp, J.M. - Designed by: Sara Spragg
ADVOCATES-GLOBE Email List:
In an effort to reach out and collaborate with other Advocates and Allies (A&A) groups, we have created a new emailing list dedicated to discussions of gender equity. This is an emailing list for advocates and allies in ADVANCE or similar programs at US higher education institutions. A&A groups are typically formed by men faculty who work towards addressing gender inequity issues. ADVANCE programs are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), while similar programs are sponsored by institutions themselves. The objective of this emailing list is to provide a communication and discussion platform for these advocates groups - for the purpose of exchanging ideas and best practices about advocacy and allyship. If you are an advocate or ally who would like to share relevant information or to just receive learning pointers on gender equity, please consider subscribing to the list. Here it is how to subscribe via email:
- Send an e-mail to Listserv@listserv.nodak.edu
- Leave the subject line blank of the e-mail
- In the body (not subject) of the e-mail enter the following:
SUB ADVOCATES-GLOBE yourFirstName yourLastName
Advocates and Allies at Other Universities (incomplete list):
- NDSU ADVANCE FORWARD - Advocates and Allies
- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Male Allies/Advocates Initiative
- Ohio State University - Advocates & Allies for Equity
- West Virginia University (WVU) - ADVANCE Advocates Group
- Lehigh University - Men Advocates and Allies for Gender Equity