2018- Data Modeling & Decision Support for a more Diverse Faculty

Presentation Summary

At the University of Kentucky, the offices of faculty advancement and diversity have joined forces with institutional research to identify and measure roadblocks in the hiring, tenure, promotion, and leadership of female and under-represented minority faculty. The definition and operationalization of key faculty career milestones will be discussed, along with the new data models and visualizations developed to answer questions about faculty cohort progression. The resulting visualizations will be presented, as will the ways in which these results have been used to challenge practice and procedure around faculty advancement at UK.