Faculty Session: Gender and Higher Education: Exploring Women's Experiences - March 1st (March 01, 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 the same time in Benedum 227 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.