Papers by Canan Bilen-Green
Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative ... more Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.
Since 2001, NSF awarded 32 institutions three or five year ADVANCE Institutional Transformation a... more Since 2001, NSF awarded 32 institutions three or five year ADVANCE Institutional Transformation awards. The goal of these awards is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic scientific and engineering careers. A total of 221 institutions have applied for these grants. In summer of 2002, a group of faculty and administrators, who were concerned about the status of women faculty, at North Dakota State University came together to prepare a proposal for the ADVANCE IT program. In order to increase the participation of women at all faculty ranks, by changing institutional culture and practices, this ad hoc committee collected and analyzed institutional data and conducted several surveys to document the present climate and understand institutional barriers to women's success. The committee researched extensively relevant literature and best practices developed and/or adopted by ADVANCE institutions. The committee met monthly to discuss goals and strategies for achieving institutional transformation through recruiting, retaining, and advancing women, particularly in the traditional science and engineering disciplines at NDSU. In this paper we will discuss how climate at NDSU changed between 2002 and 2007. We will describe the initiatives that were implemented at NDSU as a result of an ad hoc committee's active role in evaluating conditions and programs to enhance the status of women. We will also discuss the effect of the NSF ADVANCE program in NDSU's institutional transformation even though NDSU has not received an ADVANCE grant.
Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative ... more Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative ... more Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative ... more Birmingham has a Ph.D. degree in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and an M.A. in creative writing from Iowa State University.
Women in Engineering ProActive Network, 2008
Since 2001, NSF awarded 32 institutions three or five year ADVANCE Institutional Transformation a... more Since 2001, NSF awarded 32 institutions three or five year ADVANCE Institutional Transformation awards. The goal of these awards is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic scientific and engineering careers. A total of 221 institutions have applied for these grants. In summer of 2002, a group of faculty and administrators, who were concerned about the status of women faculty, at North Dakota State University came together to prepare a proposal for the ADVANCE IT program. In order to increase the participation of women at all faculty ranks, by changing institutional culture and practices, this ad hoc committee collected and analyzed institutional data and conducted several surveys to document the present climate and understand institutional barriers to women’s success. The committee researched extensively relevant literature and best practices developed and/or adopted ...
The proceedings of the WEPAN conference have been an important venue for publishing research from... more The proceedings of the WEPAN conference have been an important venue for publishing research from NSF ADVANCE IT grants. Among these articles, several stand out as describing their grant proposal’s conceptual frameworks in useful detail. Sheridan, Carnes, and Handelsman modify a “Stages of Change” model borrowed from behavioral psychology “to measure attitudinal change that will ultimately result in the diversification of the scientific labor force” (2003, 5). Bilen-Green, Birmingham and Burnett suggest that the framework provided by the NSF in their grant solicitation offered their institution a path toward transformation even before they were awarded an IT grant (2008). Moreover, every year the conference proceedings reflect an integration of feminist theories and frameworks into richly varied research (Rosser, 1993; Subramaniam and Ginorio, 1998; Steffen-Fluhr, 2003). This paper explores the relationship between the conceptual frameworks employed in funded NSF ADVANCE IT grants a...
The goal of the NDSU Advance FORWARD project, funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE I... more The goal of the NDSU Advance FORWARD project, funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation program in 2008, is to develop and implement a comprehensive research-driven strategy to increase representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. Specifically, Advance FORWARD strives to improve the climate across campus, enhance faculty recruitment efforts, increase faculty retention and advancement, and open leadership opportunities. Key elements include a cohort mentoring program for new faculty, a mid-career mentoring program to support the transition of associate professors to the rank of full professor, research and course release grant programs, and a variety of professional development opportunities for faculty and administrators to improve the campus climate. In this poster we summarize key elements of our program, describe key initiatives that have been implemented to date including quantitative and qualitative da...
The ADVANCE FORWARD program at North Dakota State University, funded in 2008, strives to improve ... more The ADVANCE FORWARD program at North Dakota State University, funded in 2008, strives to improve the climate across campus, enhance faculty recruitment efforts, increase faculty retention and advancement, and open leadership opportunities. The FORWARD program features three major components consisting of a number of programs: Campus Climate, Advancement & Leadership, and Research. To achieve the project goals, the campus climate and advancement & leadership components provide professional development opportunities for academic administrators, and mentoring programs for junior and senior faculty. Within all components there are specific, funded incentives to support change efforts. Although FORWARD has adopted best practices from previously funded ADVANCE programs, it also has a number of unique programs, including a FORWARD Advocates &Allies program to engage senior male faculty in institutional transformation, a Commission on the Status of Women Faculty to proactively improve inst...
ADVANCE Journal, 2020
This study examines the Advocates & Allies Program, a men faculty peer-to-peer professional devel... more This study examines the Advocates & Allies Program, a men faculty peer-to-peer professional development program designed to disrupt gender inequities in academia. The pedagogical approach is grounded in a grassroots-based critical analysis, was developed at a public land grant university, and has been introduced at over twenty additional higher education institutions. Data from five universities and two professional association conferences are included in this study. Results of this mixed methods case analysis illustrate why academic men may be motivated to engage in gender equity work; findings also confirm that the program increases participants' knowledge of unconscious bias and its impacts, prepares men with tools to enact change, and enhances personal commitment to gender equity, thereby affirming and extending the existing knowledgebase on effective allyship. The data suggest that the approach is an effective transformative model of intellectual activism that could be adopted by a wider sphere of academic institutions.
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
During his Ph.D. studies, he also obtained a graduate minor in statistics. He is currently an Ass... more During his Ph.D. studies, he also obtained a graduate minor in statistics. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Dakota State University, where he teaches courses in signals and systems, digital signal processing, random processes, communications, controls, embedded systems, and others. His main research interests include digital and statistical signal processing, time series analysis, spectral and time-frequency analysis, array processing, real-time systems, and data adaptive techniques.
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
During his Ph.D. studies, he also obtained a graduate minor in statistics. He is currently an Ass... more During his Ph.D. studies, he also obtained a graduate minor in statistics. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at North Dakota State University, where he teaches courses in signals and systems, digital signal processing, random processes, communications, controls, embedded systems, and others. His main research interests include digital and statistical signal processing, time series analysis, spectral and time-frequency analysis, array processing, real-time systems, and data adaptive techniques.
Studies in Social Justice, 2018
In this two-part Dispatch we first trace the evolution of three interdependent terms – advocacy, ... more In this two-part Dispatch we first trace the evolution of three interdependent terms – advocacy, allyship, and accountability – as a means to highlight their changing roles in driving impactful social justice efforts, then explore how this triad is manifested in a gender equity advocacy program fashioned at a Midwestern United States university, the Advocates and Allies (A&A) initiative. In Part 1, we describe a memetic theory of culture to situate the findings of an Internet term search that reveals a mutable progression of meaning(s) for our threesome. This framework provides grounding for discussion in Part 2 of the wider social milieu reflected in the evolution of A&A. We then offer an outline of central features of the initiative along with reflections from the field, and point out resources for learning more about how the program is being utilized. By surveying the succession of A&A within this culture-as-memetic context we intend to acknowledge what’s been done by others whil...
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2017
This study describes ongoing efforts of one Midwestern United States land-grant research universi... more This study describes ongoing efforts of one Midwestern United States land-grant research university to address the root causes of gendered inequities in the institution, inequities that garnered national notoriety for poor performance on gender-equity indicators in a 2006 American Association of University Professors report (West and Curtis, 2006; Wilson, 2007). Although the ambitious goals laid out in a 2008 National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award are not yet fully met, the work accomplished to date has altered institutional infrastructure in ways that promise continued efforts to create a welcoming campus for all members of the university community. Weaving theory and extant empirical findings together with interventions and outcomes at our institution, this study offers a narrative that details the complex systems and intersectional reasoning that informs our ongoing work and describes our efforts to disrupt the mechanisms by which a gendered institution constrains women while enabling men. These analyses suggest that approaches developed by other ADVANCE initiatives to support women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, coupled with several novel aspects of our initiative-a Women Faculty with Disability Task Force, a senior men faculty gender-equity Advocates/Allies program, and inclusion of Non-STEM women faculty-have shown synergistic effects. This study provides a fresh interpretation of research on organizational change and generates an Organizational Transformation Matrix intended to assist others in creating and adapting interventions appropriate for their particular settings.
The Journal of Men’s Studies, 2015
As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant, North Dakota State University (NDSU... more As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE grant, North Dakota State University (NDSU) created a program of men faculty Advocates to engage in gender-equity/climate improvement efforts. Sixteen men Advocates spent 4 years reading materials, attending NDSU ADVANCE FORWARD programming, and creating training sessions for male faculty gender-equity Allies. The current investigation reviews core aspects of effective Ally preparation programs, and then compares this Advocates program with elements of successful men’s profeminist gender-equity advocacy work. We discovered that the NDSU Advocates used 12 of Berkowitz’s 19 elements, with 4 additional elements present. Implications for this men’s gender-equity advocates program, similar programs at other colleges and universities, and other Ally/advocates programs are discussed.
Women in Engineering Proactive Network, Mar 28, 2011
This project applies a content analysis approach to the texts of 18 NSF ADVANCE Institutional Tra... more This project applies a content analysis approach to the texts of 18 NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grants attempting to understand the ways in which three variable impact each other: 1. the conceptual framework the grant proposal employs, 2. the extent to which the grant proposal articulates a feminist analytical/theoretical lens, and 3. the sustainability of grant programs as demonstrated through institutionalization. The authors hypothesize that writers will avoid explicitly feminist language, and that those grant proposals that do employ explicitly feminist language, theoretical frameworks or methods will be least likely to be fully institutionalized.
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2012
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