Faculty Session: Gender and Higher Education: Exploring Women's Experiences - February 28th (February 28, 2019)
Gender and Higher Education: Exploring Women's Experiences:
This workshop is intended for female audience. To register
for men-only format session Men Allies for Gender Equity scheduled for February 28th at 10:00 am please visit this
page.
This
session explores the impact of gender on women’s experiences of campus climate.
Through small group activities, a review of the existing research, and large
group discussions this session will seek to shift the dialogue from individual
problems and solutions to seeking to acknowledge and identify institutional
challenges and solutions.
Purpose: To increase women’s awareness of the existing literature on
gender in higher education as well as to create a dialogue about the
institutional changes needed to facilitate greater gender equity.
Learning Goals: Workshop participants will:
- understand the context of gender inequity in
academia, through reviewing the literature on women faculty’s experiences in
higher education
- be able to identify a number of different
institutional solutions that could be enacted to create greater gender equity
on their university campuses
The Speaker:
Christi McGeorge:
Dr.
Christi McGeorge is a professor in the Department of Human Development and
Family Science at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Dr. McGeorge earned her
Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Family Social Science with an
emphasis in Couple and Family Therapy. She is a mixed methodologist who is
trained in both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.
Dr.
McGeorge’s research has focused on the influence of heterosexism and homophobia
on clinical practice and training, gender equity in therapy, gender equity in
higher education, feminist theories, and societal perceptions of single
parents. Dr. McGeorge has authored over 35 journal articles, book chapters, and
encyclopedia entries. Additionally, she (along with her colleagues) has
received well over one million dollars in grant funding from the National
Science Foundation and Non-Profit Foundations to support their research and
advocacy efforts.
Dr.
McGeorge also has extensive experience in program evaluation. For example, she
was the internal evaluator for the NSF ADVANCE grant at NDSU and the evaluator
for an NSF PLAN-D grant focused on testing the effectiveness of a male advocate
and ally program to positively impact university climates for women faculty.
Additionally, Dr. McGeorge has presented nationally to groups of women faculty
about the impact of gender on women’s experiences of campus climate.
Dr. McGeorge has been
the recipient of a number of awards including the National Council on Family
Relations Kathleen Briggs Outstanding Mentor Award, American Association for
Marriage and Family Therapy 2012 Training Award, and the University of Arizona
School of Family and Consumer Sciences Professional Achievement Award. She has
also been selected to give a number of invited lectures including the 2016 Tony
Jurich Lecture on Social Justice at Kansas State University.