Provost's Advisory Council on Women Faculty
The Provost’s Advisory Council on Women Faculty, a group of approximately 50 women and men faculty from across the schools, convened from 2016-2020 to identify ways to strengthen our supports for women and women-identified faculty.
The Council focused its work on developing recommendations in five key areas that are of particular importance in supporting our women and women-identified faculty. These areas are: mentoring, retention, pipeline advancement, work-life resources, and development and leadership opportunities for women and women-identified faculty.
The excellent work of the Council has been instrumental in:
- Developing a set of guidelines and resources to support Faculty Searches,
- Establishing the Provost Faculty Mentoring Program,
- The hire of Northwestern University’s first Ombudsperson,
- Enhancing the suite of training available through leadership programs,
- Revising the Policy on Faculty Family Leave and Extending the Probationary Period for Tenure-Track Faculty, and
- Creating the Faculty Work/Life and Family Resources brochure.
We continue to work on finding ways to make incremental progress on recommendations developed by the Council.