Advocates and Allies
About the Advocates and Allies Program
Advocates and Allies are faculty members committed to supporting gender equity. Faculty Success will help equip Advocates and Allies with the knowledge, skills and strategies to effect positive unit and organizational change. Advocates will be tenured and senior CCA faculty who educate themselves about issues of gender equity.
About the Advocate Role
Advocates are expected to be active proponents of equity and inclusion and to support recruitment and success of women on the faculty through ensuring fair and equitable treatment within their units. The program will take an intersectional and expansive framework for addressing issues of gender equity and ultimately aims to improve the status of faculty members with underrepresented or marginalized identities in all disciplines. Advocates should be open to being mentored on how institutional climate and bias affects the success of women on the faculty. The founding cohort of Advocates will help shape the program and recruit Allies.