Video from the CFW Retreat: Auden Thomas discusses uses of CFW assessment data (10/9/2009)

Auden Thomas is Chair of Penn State's Commission for Women during the 2009-2010 academic year and is Director, Center for Survey Research at Penn State Harrisburg. In this interview, she discusses the uses of data such as those displayed in the recent report prepared by the CFW Assessment Committee, Report on the Status of Women at Penn State.

Video from the CFW Retreat: Alicia Knoedler discusses origins of CFW assessment report (10/9/2009)

Alicia Knoedler is Chair-Elect of Penn State's Commission for Women and is Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives and Research Program Development at Penn State. In this interview, she describes the origins of the recent report prepared by the CFW Assessment Committee, Report on the Status of Women at Penn State.

Video from the CFW Retreat: Head of Women's Studies, Carolyn Sachs, on uses of CFW assessment report (10/9/2009)

Carolyn Sachs is Professor of Rural Sociology and Women’s Studies and Head of Women’s Studies Department at Penn State. In this interview, she suggests the uses of the recent report prepared by the CFW Assessment Committee, Report on the Status of Women at Penn State.

Video from the CFW Retreat: Liaison to CFW from Educational Equity (10/9/2009)

Sheila Barlock is the liaison to Penn State's Commission for Women from the Office of the Vice President for Educational Equity, where she is a Senior Diversity Planning Analyst. In this interview, Sheila explains her liaison role.

Video from the CFW Retreat: Why Molly Became the Chair (10/9/2009)

Molly Wertheimer explains why she became the Chair of Penn State's Commission for Women during the 2008-2009 academic year. Molly Wertheimer is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at Penn State Hazletine.

Video from the CFW Retreat: The Work of the Mentoring Program Committee (10/9/2009)

Laurie Schoonhoven is Co-Chair of the Commission for Women Mentoring Program Committee and is a Project Associate with the Penn State Natural Resources Extension.

Faculty Count Data 1997 - 2007

The Dickinson School of Law has grown over the last six years. The Dean's welcome says more than 30 new faculty appointments were made in this time. The faculty include one of the nation’s leading scholars of corporate mergers and acquisitions, the world’s preeminent expert on Russian law, leading scholars of commercial arbitration, renowned scholars of antitrust and law and economics, former law clerks to United States Supreme Court Justices, a leading scholar of international banking and finance, the first legal counsel to the African Union, the legal counsel to the Greek Presidency of the European Union. The title links to a spreadsheet containing counts of faculty for the school from 1997 to 2007. We are looking for creative ways to display the data. You can send your suggestions to PSU.CfW.assessment@gmail.com or with a link in your comments. If you send your suggestion, our moderators will create a link and post the suggestion.

Report on the Status of Women at Penn State

Have you wondered about the profile of women at Penn State? How many female faculty members are in a particular college? What is the gender and ethnicity distribution of staff positions? Answers to these questions and many others are available in the 2007 - 2008 report that is available at http://www.equity.psu.edu/cfw/docs/cfw_wm_report_07_08.pdf or click on the title link to download the Adobe PDF file.

Goals for 2009 - 2010

We have several objectives this year that we would like to pursue:

• Create an abbreviated update to the Status of Women Report to be available online. This will be an annual endeavor.
• Create a comprehensive assessment committee website that pools data from many different sources and makes it easily readable for the general public. Additionally try and gather data on underrepresented groups at Penn State such as non-tenured faculty and post-docs.
• We are also interested in making a section of the website that provides policy information – such as family leave, that is clearer and more concise than what is currently available from Human Resources.