By Melissa Vogel, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Do you want to make Clemson a more welcoming, inclusive, and supportive workplace for all faculty? Become a Tiger Advocate!
Part of the NSF-funded ADVANCE initiative, Tiger Advocates is a newly-forming group of tenured male faculty interested in supporting women faculty members in their departments, colleges and throughout the university. Advocates are expected to be active and effective proponents of gender diversity and equality specifically in terms of increasing the number of women faculty, encouraging the hiring for and promotion of women faculty into administrative positions, and ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of all faculty within their academic units.
Advocates must be open to being mentored on issues like covert bias, institutional bias, and institutional climate by women faculty members, including women in untenured assistant professor positions. All are welcome to apply, but preference will be given to tenured faculty as advocates may need to speak out, challenge departmental, college, or university culture, and/or question administrators.
If you or someone you know would be a great Tiger Advocate, please spread the word and register here for an initial training opportunity on March 30 or 31, 2017. In a brief session, you will learn the basics of how to recognize micro- and macro-level biases and be empowered to intervene when such bias occurs. Follow-up training opportunities will be scheduled later in 2017.
For more information please contact the program lead: Dr. Melissa Vogel, mvogel@clemson.edu
