2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Building Community Understanding of Institutional Compensation Systems: An ADVANCE Partnership Mid-Project Update

Presented at Persistence, Outcomes and Barriers for Women in Engineering

This paper provides an update on an ongoing NSF ADVANCE Partnership Project (2121930, 2021-2026) led by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The project focuses on improving the understanding of faculty compensation systems at partnering universities by introducing ideas and tools through workshops, coaching sessions, and a support network. Target audiences at each partner university include pay decision makers from the administration and the faculty as well as others who shape and administer the faculty compensation system. The project also highlights the distinct viewpoints on faculty compensation from specific faculty sub-populations by involving the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Women’s Council and the Women of Color Council.

The project’s leadership team collaborates closely with partner universities to achieve the project’s goal. In 2021, the first year of this five-year project, three private universities formed the first partner cohort (Drexel, Gallaudet, and Villanova). In March 2024, a second partner cohort of seven public universities was launched. Partner institutions have teams that attend project workshops and coaching sessions and engage in project-related work on their campuses. This paper provides a mid-project update on the series of workshops offered to the initial partner cohort of private universities and modified for use with the second partner cohort of public universities. Formative project assessment based on post-workshop participant feedback and input from members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Women’s Council and the Women of Color Council is presented and examined.

Authors

Prof. Margaret B. Bailey Ph.D., P.E. Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) [biography]

Professor Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E. is a professor of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology and a professionally registered engineer. She conducts research related to Thermodynamics, engineering education, and gender in engineering and science. She authors an engineering Thermodynamics textbook and recently published a book that highlights the stories and lived experiences of women within Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Carol Elizabeth Marchetti Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) [biography]

Dr. Carol Marchetti is a Professor of Statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she teaches introductory and advanced undergraduate statistics courses and conducts research in statistics education, deaf education, and online learning. She ser
Dr. Jessica C Bennett Association of Public and Land-grant Universities [biography]

Jessica Bennett, Ph.D., is Assistant Vice President of STEM Education at APLU. She leads a variety of NSF-funded projects focused on enhancing institutional capacity to foster environments that recruit, retain, develop, and compensate a thriving faculty. Her scholarship focuses on organizational environments and faculty pathway experiences. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
Iris V. Rivero Ph.D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5542-0836 University of Florida [biography]

Dr. Iris V. Rivero is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Chair and Department Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University. Prior to UF, she served as the Kate Gleason Professor and Department Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). In addition, she was a member of the faculty and Associate Chair in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. Her research group iMED (Interdisciplinary Manufacturing Engineering and Design) laboratory specializes in research to design scalable hybrid manufacturing techniques of a wide array of material systems ranging from biopolymers, metal alloys, and concrete. Her research expertise is in additive and hybrid manufacturing processes, and biomanufacturing. Applications of her research extend to applications ranging from in-situ nondestructive testing of manufacturing processes to design of Additive Manufacturing alloys for aerospace and biomaterials for tissue engineering. She was a fellow at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 invited talks and presentations. She is a fellow in the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Gloria L. Blackwell American Association of University Women (AAUW) [biography]

Chief Executive Officer of AAUW, an esteemed nonprofit organization advancing gender equity for women and girls for over a century through research, education and advocacy. AAUW produces critical research around pay equity and provides programming for salary negotiation for students, administrators and faculty.

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