Kaizen 1. Faculty Career Mapping: The Overview
Objectives:
- Create a map that can capture faculty career path processes, obstacles, resources, and opportunities for intervention
- Identify the metrics needed to assess career path progress for women faculty
Kaizen 2. Faculty Career Progress: Pre-tenure Obstacles and Possible Programs
Objectives:
- Validate or refined current group metrics to rapidly identify a) early career obstacles, b) impactful resources, and c) opportunities for intervention
- Identify sustainable university-wide best practices to cultivate a culture of support and retention
Kaizen 3. Faculty Career Progress: Post-tenure Obstacles and Possible Programs
Objectives:
- Validate or refined current group metrics to rapidly identify a) mid career obstacles, b) impactful resources, and c) opportunities for development
- Identify sustainable university-wide best practices to cultivate a culture of support and retention
Kaizen 4. Recruitment and Selection (and Retention) of Faculty
Objectives
- Validate or refine current metrics to identify recruitment success at various stages
- Identify obstacles in the process as well as sustainable university-wide best practices to attract and retain new faculty
Kaizen 5. Data and Metrics
Objectives
- Identify the raw data that exists; what calculations are needed, being done, and possible; and what needed data is not being collected
- Apply data mapping to each phase of faculty career development (see objective 1)
- Strategize centralizing and maintaining these data collection and calculation processes