WomenLEAD: Leadership Development for Female Faculty in Business and Engineering

Authors

  • Julia Hodges Mississippi State University
  • Allison Pearson Mississippi State University
  • Donna Reese Mississippi State University

Keywords:

Women faculty, leadership development, mentoring

Abstract

In the fall of 2009, three women faculty members in the Bagley College of Engineering and the College of Business at Mississippi State University initiated a leadership development program for female faculty members in those colleges. This paper provides a summary of the first two years of that program. In this paper we describe the motivation for establishing this program, the environment in which the program was conducted, and the discussion topics for the sessions that were held. We also provide feedback from the participants who responded to a survey about the program. We conclude with some general observations about the program and plans for its continuation.

Author Biographies

  • Julia Hodges, Mississippi State University

    Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Vice President for Administrative Services.

  • Allison Pearson, Mississippi State University
    Department of Management and Information Systems, Professor
  • Donna Reese, Mississippi State University
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor
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Published

09-07-2011

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Section

Case Studies

How to Cite

WomenLEAD: Leadership Development for Female Faculty in Business and Engineering. (2011). International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 3(2), 330-337. https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/161