CCAS ADVANCE Initiative Advisory Board
The external Advisory Board is composed of distinguished scholars--not otherwise affiliated with CCAS — who possess specialized expertise in areas of relevance to this initiative, including STEM gender equity and faculty work-life issues.
The role of the Advisory Board:
• To provide guidance on the project’s activities, challenges, and progress in meeting goals.
• To bring to the project specialized expertise in key areas
(e.g., STEM gender equity; faculty work-life issues; faculty diversity; leadership development).
• To facilitate CCAS’s efforts to maximize the project’s impact and dissemination.
Advisory Board Members
Cathy Trower, Harvard University
Fernando Guzman, University of Denver
Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon
Kecia Thomas, University of Georgia
Patricia Rankin, University of Colorado at Boulder
Robert E. Barnhill, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Sue V. Rosser, San Francisco State University
Cathy Trower, Ph.D.
Director, COACHE
Graduate School of Education
Harvard University
Cathy Trower is research associate at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. The primary purpose of her current project, the Collaborative On Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), is to make higher education a more attractive and equitable place for new teacher-scholars. Dr. Trower has studied faculty employment issues, policy, and practices for the past fifteen years during which she produced an edited volume, numerous book chapters, articles, and case studies. She has made dozens of presentations on tenure policies and practices, faculty recruitment strategies, and the issues of women and minority faculty, with a recent focus on Generation Xers and Millennials in and entering the academic workforce. She has conducted seminars for institutions interested in faculty diversity and improving the workplace for all new scholars. She was formerly a senior-level administrator of business degree programs at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Trower is on advisory councils for several National Science Foundation ADVANCE sites, is a TIAA-CREF fellow, and a college trustee. She has an MBA and a BBA from the University of Iowa and earned a PhD in higher education administration at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Fernando Guzman, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost for Multicultural Faculty Recruitment and Retention
University of Denver
A native of California, Fernando Guzman has a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Denver, where he has also served as the Assistant Provost for Multicultural Faculty Recruitment and Retention for six years after eight years working in the community mental health field. From his experience recruiting highly qualified board and staff members of color, he further developed creative and effective strategies for networking, recruiting, retaining and promoting underrepresented graduate students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities. He has consulted with various national agencies and institutions of higher education and presented on such topics as promoting leadership through recruitment and retention, the experiences of scholars of color in the academy, and effective strategies for community collaboration and sustainability. Fernando has served on numerous Commissions and Boards, and conducted research in the areas of ethics, microaggressions toward scholars of color, ethnic identity, acculturation, and counselor preference.
Geraldine Richmond, Ph.D.
Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry
University of Oregon
Geri Richmond is the Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor in Chemistry at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. She began her academic career as an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1980, moving to the University of Oregon in 1985. Dr. Richmond has received numerous awards for her fundamental studies of molecular processes at semiconductor, metal and liquid surfaces using state-of-the-art laser techniques, including the Spiers Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also known widely for her teaching and mentoring activities, Dr. Richmond has been nationally recognized for developing innovative methods for teaching science literacy courses, and her extensive international efforts in recruiting and mentoring women in the sciences at all levels have been recognized with many awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering Mentoring from the White House. In 1998, Richmond founded COACh, an organization that fosters the career success of women scientists in academia. More than 3,000 female academic scientists from around the country have since participated in its highly effective programs.
Kecia Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor, Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology
Senior Advisor to the Dean for Inclusion & Diversity Leadership, College of Arts & Sciences
University of Georgia
Dr. Thomas is the founding director of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity (RED) and the Senior Advisor to the Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA on matters related to inclusion and diversity leadership. She was a presenter in the University of Washington’s national LEAD workshops. Her work focuses on understanding systems of privilege and resistance that limit the career development of women, people of color, and gay and lesbian workers, as well as the learning and effectiveness of the institutions in which they are employed. She is author of Diversity Dynamics (Wadsworth-Thomson) the first I/O Psychology textbook on workplace diversity, numerous book chapters and over 35 peer reviewed articles, and she served as editor of the recent Diversity Resistance in the Workplace (LEA-Taylor Francis). Dr. Thomas received her B.A. in psychology and spanish from Bucknell and her M.S. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Penn State. She was recently named a Fellow of Division 14 of the American Psychological Association, which is the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
Patricia Rankin, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Rankin is interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She did both her undergraduate and her graduate work at Imperial College, London. As an undergraduate student she was awarded the “Governor’s Prize” for graduating first in her year in Physics. After a Science and Engineering Research Council Fellowship she moved to the United States to become a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center working as an experimentalist. Her research interests in particle physics include precision measurements as tests of the Standard Model and studies of heavy quark physics with a focus on understanding the symmetries of nature. In 1988 she became an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado and was awarded tenure in 1995. She worked for two years in Washington D.C. as a program officer for particle physics at the National Science Foundation. Returning to Boulder she was promoted to Full Professor. As Principal Investigator for CU-Boulder’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation program she took on a leadership role in working to address the lack of representation of women in STEM fields and in promoting best practices for departmental and campus leaders. She has studied how participation in networks affects success in academia and is also interested in effective decision making. She taught a web based course this spring (2010) on how to work effectively in teams. The administrative roles she has held at the university include serving as Associate Dean for Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Faculty Director position in the Office of Faculty Affairs focusing on promoting inclusive excellence. She is a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship, a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, the Elizabeth Gee award, and the “Best Shall Teach” awards among others recognizing her contributions to interdisciplinary research and to the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Robert E. Barnhill, Ph.D.
Vice President for Science Policy & Strategic Initiatives
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Dr. Barnhill received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1964. At the University of Utah from 1964-1986 he co-developed a new science and engineering discipline, Computer Aided Geometric Design, that integrated the first interactive computer graphics with his applied mathematics background. In 1986, he went to Arizona State University as Chair of the Computer Science Department. From 1991-1997 Dr. Barnhill was the ASU Vice President for Research, during which time ASU was recognized as a Carnegie Research I institution. After retiring from ASU, he returned to his hometown alma mater, the University of Kansas, as Vice Chancellor for Research from 1997-2003. Then he spent a year at the National Science Foundation as the Dean in Residence in the Division of Graduate Education and two years at the University of Texas as its initial Vice Chancellor for Research. Returning to his Phoenix home in 2008, he now serves on the staff of SACNAS – Society for Advancing Chicanos and Native Americans in Science – as the Vice President for Science Policy & Strategic Initiatives.
Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D.
Provost
San Francisco State University
Sue Rosser become Provost at San Francisco State University in August 2009, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). A lifelong advocate for women in the sciences, she has been heavily involved in consulting on and publishing about ADVANCE grants at a number of institutions. Prior to her appointment at San Francisco State, she spent 10 years at The Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the institution's first female dean. Prior to Georgia Tech, she led women's studies programs at the University of Florida, the nine-campus University of South Carolina system and Mary Baldwin College. She has also served as Senior Program Officer for Women's Programs at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Rosser received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973. Author of twelve books, she has also published more than 130 journal articles on theoretical and applied issues surrounding women, science, technology, and health.
