ADVANCE at Brown
	ABOUT      PEOPLE      FACULTY DEVELOPMENT        LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES       INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION      RESOURCES
	Institutional Transformation ADVANCE promotes the transformation of the institutional climate at Brown is to develop an innovative program for department chair leadership training that focuses on providing opportunities for faculty success with best practices for retaining women and minority faculty, managing departmental climate, recruitment, within-department mentoring, advertising faculty successes, and preventing mid-career burnout. ADVANCE worked with Professor Lisa Frehill as our first Visiting Scholar to help us design and implement our Mentoring Program and Department Chairs Workshops. Professor Frehill is the PI for the ADVANCE grant at New Mexico State University, Director of the ADVANCE Program at the University of California Irvine for a year, and is currently the Executive Director at the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.   Department Chairs Workshops The goal of the Department Chairs Workshops will be to provide chairs with information and skills that will have a positive effect on faculty development and departmental climate, facilitate communication between chairs to share experiences and best practices, and to integrate the broader goals of the ADVANCE Program by weaving information and discussion about issues of diversity and gender to improve the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women faculty.