Programs

Faculty Allies and Advocates

Faculty Allies learned to use their privilege to support the advancement of women and other minoritized faculty in their academic units. Through face-to-face workshops, online modules, and other ongoing programming, Faculty Allies developed their skills in allyship and bystander intervention. The BGSU ALLIES project met it's ultimate goal to have 40% of all full-time faculty in our targeted academic units trained as Faculty Allies.

Faculty Advocates were senior faculty from our targeted academic units who worked with the BGSU ALLIES team to build on their allyship training and learn effective facilitation practices. Our Advocates then served as facilitators for faculty workshops and as liaisons to the ALLIES departments. 

Inclusive Leadership for Faculty Administrators

Inclusive leaders:

1. Proactively advocate for all the faculty they lead;
2. Cultivate a climate in which each faculty member feels valued and included;
3. Enact equitable workplace policies, procedures, and practices; and
4. Work to identify and break down barriers and biases that hinder the career success of women and faculty of color.

BGSU ALLIES worked to train BGSU Chairs/Directors and other faculty administrators on inclusive leadership principles and practices. Our program included a workshop on allyship, sessions to explore the traits of inclusive leaders and how to broaden personal networks, and support in crafting individual action plans to incorporate inclusive leadership practices into their work.

Institutional Policies

BGSU ALLIES strived to ensure that all campus leaders are formally evaluated on their achievements in inclusive leadership. To this end, the team  worked with the College Deans and Provost to add inclusive leadership as an explicit expectation in faculty administrator handbooks and items on inclusive leadership to include on administrator evaluation instruments.

Institutional Data

It is difficult to track faculty data that could reveal how intersecting identities impact faculty representation and advancement. These types of data are vital information for administrators seeking to implement inclusive leadership practices. BGSU ALLIES therefore sought to improve the way BGSU collects data on non-binary gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexuality, and dis/ability status wherever possible. With these data, the university will be better able to track these categories in faculty applicant pools and hires and in faculty and administrator demographics.

Research Project

Led by co-PI Lisa Hanasono, the BGSU ALLIES team collected data to better understand what factors make faculty members more likely to engage in ally behaviors, including bystander intervention. This work will help fill in the gap in the research literature about faculty attitudes, beliefs, skills, and behaviors related to allyship. This research has been published in the following venues:

Hanasono, Lisa K., Broido, Ellen M., Yacobucci, Margaret M., Root, Karen V., Peña, Susana, and O’Neil, Deborah A. 2019. Secret service: Revealing gender biases in the visibility and value of faculty service. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 12(1): 85-98. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000081

Hanasono, Lisa K., Matuga, Julia M., and Yacobucci, Margaret M. 2019. Breaking the bamboo and glass ceilings: Challenges and opportunities for Asian and Asian American women faculty leaders. Chapter in Chao, Chin-Chung, and Ha, Louisa (eds.) Asian Women Leadership: A Cross-National and Cross-Sector Comparison. Taylor & Francis Routledge.

Hanasono, Lisa K., Ro, Hyun Kyoung, O’Neil, Deborah, Broido, Ellen M., Yacobucci, Margaret M., Peña, Susana, and Root, Karen V. 2022. Communicating privilege and faculty allyship. Communication Quarterly 70(5): 560-584. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01463373.2022.2099294 

Ro, Hyun Kyoung, Broido, Ellen M., Campbell-Jacobs, Blaze, Hanasono, Lisa K., Yacobucci, Margaret M., and Root, Karen V. 2024. Development of a faculty transformative ally behavior scale. ADVANCE Journal 4(2): Article 6. doi: 10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.4.2.6 https://www.advancejournal.org/article/89858-development-of-a-faculty-transformative-ally-behavior-scale

Ro, Hyun, Campbell-Jacobs, Blaze, Broido, Ellen, Hanasono, Lisa, O’Neil, Deborah, Yacobucci, Margaret, and Root, Karen. 2024. Faculty allyship: Differences by gender, race, and rank at a single U.S. university. Gender, Work, and Organization 31(3): 768-796. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gwao.12988

Who Is Included?

BGSU ALLIES worked with faculty in these academic units in STEM, including learning, social, behavioral, and economic sciences:

• Applied Statistics & Operations Research
• Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Engineering Technologies
• Ethnic Studies
• Human Development & Family Studies
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Media Production & Studies
• Physics & Astronomy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• School of Earth, Environment & Society
• School of Media & Communication
  
• Sociology
• STEM Education
• Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

In addition, the ALLIES team worked with faculty administrators across the University on inclusive leadership development and policy revisions.