Leadership Initiatives
laboratory 2The Leadership Program provides different mechanisms of support to encourage women
faculty who are interested in pushing their careers to the next level by becoming academic administrators or assuming some role of scholarly scientific leadership in the national
community. The leadership initiatives were proposed to provide mechanisms for women
faculty interested in administrative or scientific leadership position.
Administrator Shadowing Program
The Administrator Shadowing Program is intended to give faculty who might be interested in pursuing an administrative career an opportunity to discover what it is like to be in a high level administrative position. Brown administrators will be asked to participate in the program when they have a special project with which a program participant could coordinate. Brown faculty who are interested in the program will be paired with a Brown administrator to shadow and/or work on a special project. The program provides support for teaching release time to allow time for shadowing.
Awards to Develop Scientific Leadership

The Awards to Develop Scientific Leadership were developed to facilitate women’s ability to assume positions of leadership within a scientist’s own discipline.  The awards will provide teaching release time or other support so that women faculty in the sciences will have time to take on an additional responsibility of scientific leadership when such opportunities arise (such as becoming president or vice president of a scientific society or editor of a journal) without jeopardizing their ongoing research.

Career Development Awards

Career Development Awards are intended to help faculty increase their exposure to senior colleagues at other institutions who can serve as collaborators, role models and sponsors. These awards could be particularly useful for Assistant Professors who are beginning to build their research program or for mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or trying to make contacts in a different research area.
Leadership Support Funds

The Leadership Support Fund provides women scientists with the means to attend administrator training or leadership programs provided by other institutions.  This program seeks to encourage women scientists to assume positions of leadership and provides access to networks of other leaders in academic and scientific fields.  The faculty member may choose a program that best suits her career goals and schedule.