Evaluation of the ADVANCE Program - Focus Group Questions - Faculty Participants/Beneficiaries

Evaluation of the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program
Case Study Site Visit
Focus Group Guiding Questions: FACULTY PARTICIPANTS/BENEFICIARIES
(To be used for both Female and Male Faculty Focus Groups)
One Hour
Note: probes are to be used selectively and as needed

QUESTION 1:

HOW DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED WITH ADVANCE?

Probes:

What activities did you participate in?/What services did you use?

How did you find out about ADVANCE?
How did you expect to benefit from participating in ADVANCE
activities or using its services?
Were your expectations met?
How did you benefit from ADVANCE-generated policies?

QUESTION 2:

Probes:

WHO WOULD YOU SAY HAS BENEFITED THE MOST
FROM THE ADVANCE PROJECT?
Junior faculty? Senior faculty? Why?
Mostly women? Why?
All faculty, including men? Why?
The department? The institution as a whole? Why?
Note: “Why” in the sense of in what ways have individuals
benefitted from ADVANCE.

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QUESTION 3:

Probes:

WHAT ASPECTS OF ADVANCE HAVE BEEN
INSTITUTIONALIZED BY YOUR UNIVERSITY OR
DEPARTMENT?
After ADVANCE funding ended, what policies, practices, or
activities promoted by ADVANCE have continued?
Do you know if these are supported by institutional funding or
other funding?
How committed do you feel the institution or department is to
continuing gender equity reform?

QUESTION 4:

Probes:

WHAT HAS BEEN THE EFFECT OF ADVANCE ON YOUR
INSTITUTION?
Had there been a commitment to gender equity before
ADVANCE? Had there been a few efforts on behalf of gender
equity, but no real commitment? Had nothing been done regarding
gender equity?
Before ADVANCE, what were the biggest gender equity problems
among science faculty at your institution? Did the ADVANCE
project address these? How effectively did ADVANCE address
these problems?
Has the climate of the institution or STEM departments become
more gender-friendly? How?
What have been the main contributions of ADVANCE to gender
equity in science at your institution?

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