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APPENDIX B:
SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

JANETTE BROWN, Executive Director of the Emeriti Center, University of Southern California; Executive Director, Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE)

“Janette C. Brown, Ed.D. serves as executive director of the USC Emeriti Center and Emeriti Center College. In this role, she connects the university with the multigenerational and interdisciplinary cultural and intellectual capital of the USC retiree community, and provides a network of resources, enrichment, and creative opportunities for current and retired faculty and staff and alumni. She works closely with the Center for Work and Family Life and the Office of Benefits Administration to offer wellness programs and resources for healthy aging, retirement transitions and beyond; she also connects students with intergenerational opportunities and internships.

“Dr. Brown also is executive director of the nonprofit Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education (AROHE). In her position at AROHE, she has conducted research on issues relevant to retired faculty and staff, including development of the first online instrument to gather extensive data on retiree programs and services at universities in the United States and Canada. She is a member of the National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging and has presented at programs and conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Germany, and has co-authored a book chapter on the potential of senior scholars and scientists for the European Research Institute on Health and Aging.”

SOURCE: http://emeriti.usc.edu/bios/janette-c-brown/

ANN FRANKE, President of Wise Results, LLC, author of a paper on legal issues regarding retirement for the American Council on Education

“Ann Franke has 25 years’ experience with national trends in academic policy and education law. She consults nationally with colleges and universities on issues ranging from student injury to academic freedom. She founded her firm Wise Results, LLC, in 2005 after holding senior management positions with United Educators Insurance and the American Association of University Professors.

“Ms. Franke speaks often to national groups, and the American Council on Education invited her to write a book on campus risk management, to appear in 2009. She has published in, among other periodicals, Trusteeship, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Change magazine, Minerva, and The Review of Litigation. She has also served as an expert witness. Ms. Franke is a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, a trustee of AAUP’s Academic Freedom Fund, and a member of the editorial advisory board for “Educator’s Guide to Controlling Sexual Harassment.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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“Ms. Franke earned her B.A. (magna cum laude), M.A. (linguistics), and J.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an LL.M. from Georgetown University. Through a Fulbright senior scholar award, she studied the development of private universities in Australia.”

SOURCE: http://www2.law.columbia.edu/jfagan/conference/speakers.html

DONNA GINTHER, Professor of Economics, University of Kansas

“Donna Ginther is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Science Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas. Prior to joining the University of Kansas faculty, she was a research economist and associate policy adviser in the regional group of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 2000 to 2002, and taught at Washington University from 1997 to 2000 and Southern Methodist University from 1995 to 1997. Her major fields of study are scientific labor markets, gender differences in employment outcomes, wage inequality, scientific entrepreneurship, and children’s educational attainments.

“Dr. Ginther has advised the National Academies of Science, the National Institutes of Health, and the Sloan Foundation on the diversity and future of the scientific workforce. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Economic Association and was formerly on the board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association.”

SOURCE: http://www.people.ku.edu/~dginther/

JOAN GIRGUS, Professor of Psychology, Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty on Gender Equity, Princeton University

“Joan Girgus is Professor of Psychology and Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University. She has also served as Chair of the Psychology Department and Dean of the College at Princeton. Prior to going to Princeton, she served as a faculty member and dean at the City College of City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Girgus has done research and written books and papers on perception and perceptual development, personality development, the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the psychosocial basis of depression. She has also written papers on undergraduate science education and on women in science. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Ford Foundation, and CUNY. Dr. Girgus is one of the principals of The Learning Alliance, the first just-in-time provider of strategic expertise to college and university leaders. From 1993-2003, she was a member of the executive committee of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable and its successor, the Knight Higher Education Roundtable, which worked with a broad range of colleges and universities to identify “best practices” for academic restructuring,

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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and was a consulting editor of Policy Perspectives, which published essays on major issues in higher education. From 1987-1999, she directed the Pew Science Program, a national program to improve undergraduate science education sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Girgus is currently a trustee of Adelphi University, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and McCarter Theatre. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of the American Association on Higher Education (AAHE) and Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Girgus received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City.”

SOURCE: Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty, NAP ( 2010 )

EDIE GOLDENBERG, Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science and the Arts; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

“Edie N. Goldenberg is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. She served as Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts from 1989-98 and Director of the Ford School from 1987-89. She is the founding Director of the Michigan in Washington Program. Her research interests are in American politics and higher education. Her most recent book, “Off-Track Profs: The Rise of the Teaching Specialist in Higher Education,” (with John Cross, MIT Press, 2009) examines the growth in the number of teaching faculty off the tenure track at ten distinguished research universities, identifies the forces driving this trend and the consequences for academic life, and offers recommendations to university leaders for monitoring and managing their faculty workforce. Edie served in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management where she designed and implemented a government-wide evaluation of changes under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including the first systematic survey of the federal workforce. She is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, a life member of the MIT Corporation, and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of Yeshiva University where she received an honorary doctorate in 2008 for her contributions to higher education.”

SOURCE: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/Edie_Goldenberg

MARC GOULDEN, Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare, University of California-Berkeley, conducted a study of the University of California Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program

“Marc Goulden, a research analyst at the University of California at Berkeley, has compared the advancement of male and female professors at research universities. For each year after securing a tenure-track job, he found, male assistant professors are 23 percent more likely than their female counterparts to earn tenure.”

“[Goulden studied] work/life balance issues with Mary Ann Mason for eight years and presented some new results from their ongoing surveys of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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graduate students and faculty members (this research continues to be published in Academe, titled “Do Babies Matter?”).”

SOURCE: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Marc-Goulden/687947270

ROBERT HAUSER, Executive Director, The Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council; Former Director, Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin

“Robert M. Hauser has wide-ranging research and teaching interests in aging, social stratification, and social statistics. He collaborated with David L. Featherman on the 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Survey, a replication and extension of the classic Blau-Duncan study. Beginning in 1969, he collaborated with William H. Sewell on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, and he has led the WLS since 1980. The WLS began as a study of the transition from high school to college or the work force. It has become a multi-disciplinary study of the life course and aging, and the next major round of WLS surveys will begin in mid-2009. In recent years, Hauser has combined work on the WLS with studies of trends and differentials in educational attainment, the role of achievement testing in American society, and the measurement of adult literacy. On these projects, Hauser has worked closely with many graduate students. His classroom teaching repertoire includes social stratification, research methods, and introductory and advanced courses in statistics, including structural equation models and discrete multivariate analysis. He has pursued connections between social science and social policy through his work with the National Research Council.”

SOURCE: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~hauser/

CAROL HOFFMAN, Associate Provost and Director of Work/Life program, Columbia University

“Carol was recruited to Columbia in 2007 to create the Office of Work/Life. She has launched several new programs at Columbia, including backup care, breastfeeding support, faculty recruitment and relocation service, including spouse/partner dual career service, housing information and referral service, and wellness. Carol has also been able to expand existing programs and policies, such as the School and Child Care Search Service, the affiliated child care centers, flexible work arrangements and faculty family friendly policies.

“Before coming to Columbia, Carol served as the Founding Director of Work/Life at the University of California at Berkeley. Also at UC Berkeley, she founded and directed the employee assistance program, expanded child care opportunities, inaugurated the university’s elder care program, and developed programs to respond to trauma, disaster and deaths. She gives presentations at regional and national conferences and has been published on some of these same topic areas.

“Carol is on the Board of the College and University Work Family Association (CUWFA). She received her B.A. from SUNY Buffalo and her

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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M.S.W. from SF State University; Carol is a California-licensed Clinical Social Worker and a native New Yorker.”

SOURCE: http://worklife.columbia.edu/node/896/print

SHIRLEY MALCOM, Director of Education and Human Resources Programs, AAAS

“Shirley Malcom is Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The directorate includes AAAS programs in education, activities for underrepresented groups, and public understanding of science and technology. Dr. Malcom serves on several boards—including the Heinz Endowments and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment—and is an honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. In 2006 she was named as co-chair (with Leon Lederman) of the National Science Board Commission on 21st Century Education in STEM . She serves as a Regent of Morgan State University and as a trustee of Caltech. In addition, she has chaired a number of national committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical education, careers and literacy. Dr. Malcom is a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served on the National Science Board, the policymaking body of the National Science Foundation, from 1994 to 1998, and from 1994-2001 served on the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Malcom received her doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University; master’s degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles; and bachelor’s degree with distinction in zoology from the University of Washington. She also holds 15 honorary degrees. In 2003 Dr. Malcom received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the highest award given by the Academy.”

SOURCE: http://www.aaas.org/ScienceTalk/malcom.shtml

VALERIE MARTIN CONLEY, Professor of Counseling and Higher Education, Co-director, Center for Higher Education, Ohio University, conducted a study of retirement for AAUP

“Valerie Martin Conley is Department Chair and Professor of Counseling and Higher Education at Ohio University and Co-Director of the Center for Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Higher Education and Student Affairs. She also holds a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Conley joined the faculty of Ohio University after an extensive career in institutional research and computer consulting in the Washington, D.C. area, primarily for the National Center for Education Statistics.”

SOURCE: http://www.educause.edu/members/valerie-martin-conley

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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MARY ANN MASON, Co-director, Center for Economics & Family Security, University of California-Berkeley School of Law

“Mary Ann Mason is currently professor and co-director of the Center, Economics & Family Security at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

“Mary Ann Mason’s scholarship spans children and family law, policy, and history. Recent works have focused on working families, in particular the issues faced by the surging numbers of professional women in law, medicine, science, and the academic world. Her most recent book (co-authored with her daughter Eve Mason Ekman) is Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers (Oxford, 2007).

“From 2000 to 2007, she served as the first woman dean of the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley, with responsibility for nearly 10,000 students in more than 100 graduate programs. During her tenure, she championed diversity in the graduate student population, promoted equity for student parents, and pioneered measures to enhance the career-life balance for all faculty. Her research findings and advocacy have been central to ground-breaking policy initiatives, including the ten-campus “UC Faculty Family Friendly Edge” (http://ucfamilyedge.berkeley.edu/toolkit.html) and the nationwide “Nine Presidents” summit on gender equity at major research universities.”

SOURCE: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/3133.htm

MANFRED PHILIPP, Professor of Chemistry, Lehman College; Former Chair, University Faculty Senate; President, CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences

“An ex-officio, nonvoting member of the Board of Trustees and chairperson of the 2006-2007 session of the City University of New York (CUNY) University Faculty Senate, Dr. Philipp is professor and past department chair of chemistry at Lehman College and professor in the biochemistry and chemistry doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a Fulbright scholar in 2005, Dr. Philipp taught bioinformatics and biopharmaceutics at the Catholic University of Portugal.

“He received his doctorate in biochemistry from Northwestern University and his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Philipp has been program director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported, research-based student support programs Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), and the High School Summer Research Apprentice Program. He was co-program director of the NIH-supported Bridges to the Baccalaureate at Bronx Community College and Lehman College. He has also served as national president of the MBRS/MARC Program Directors Organization.”

SOURCE: http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Manfred-Philipp/47031059

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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HENRY SAUERMANN, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management, Ernest Scheller, Jr., College of Business, Georgia Tech

“Dr. Henry Sauermann joined the College in 2008. His research focuses on individuals’ motives and incentives, and how they interact with organizational and institutional mechanisms in shaping innovative activity. In particular, he studies how scientists’ motives and incentives relate to important outcomes such as innovative performance in firms, patenting in academia, or career choices and entrepreneurial intentions. This stream of research also explores important differences in these mechanisms across contexts such as industrial versus academic science or startups versus large established firms.

“In new projects, Dr. Sauermann studies the dynamics of motives and incentives over time, and explores non-traditional innovative institutions such as “Crowd Science” or “Citizen Science” (e.g., https://www.zooniverse.org/). Additional work is underway to gain deeper insights into scientific labor markets and to derive implications for junior scientists, firms, and policy makers.”

SOURCE: http://scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/sauermann/

R. MICHAEL TANNER, Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

“R. Michael Tanner joined the APLU as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer in January 2011, where he has led planning for a multi-institutional design project to accelerate development and adoption of “cognitive course wares,” which achieve better student learning outcomes in gateway courses. He previously was Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for over eight years, following a 30-year long career at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. At UIC, he was in charge of 14 academic colleges and the library and had principal responsibility for the budget. He led academic planning and spearheaded major initiatives in interdisciplinary areas, notably a successful NIH Clinical and Translational Science center, and in diversity with an NSF ADVANCE award. At UCSC he was chair of the department of computer and information sciences, acting dean of natural sciences, before becoming academic vice chancellor. He was academic and executive vice chancellor for nine years, serving as the campus’s chief operating officer. In 2000, Dr. Tanner was named interim director for the University of California Silicon Valley Center, where he was responsible for planning a satellite campus for 2,000 students at the NASA Research Park, in the heart of Silicon Valley.”

SOURCE: http://www.ccst.us/ccstinfo/fellows/bios/tanner.php

CATHY TROWER, Research Director, Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, Harvard School of Education

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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“Cathy A. Trower (M.B.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Maryland), Research Director, has a well-established national reputation as an expert on faculty work/life, including faculty diversity and generational issues, faculty in STEM disciplines and health professions, interdisciplinary work, and general trends in faculty employment. Trower is currently heading up the COACHE Research Institute for scholars interested in using COACHE’s robust faculty satisfaction database in their research. She has published numerous articles and several book chapters about faculty work life, and edited a book entitled Policies on Faculty Appointment: Standard Practice and Unusual Arrangements (2000). Prior to coming to Harvard, Cathy was a senior-level administrator of business degree programs, and an adjunct faculty member, at Johns Hopkins University.”

SOURCE: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=coache&pageid=icb.page307143

JOHN TULLY, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University

“John Tully received a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Chicago in 1968. After two years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado and Yale University, he joined the technical staff of Bell Laboratories. He served as Head of the Departments of Physical Chemistry (1985-90) and Materials Chemistry (1990-96) before leaving Bell Labs to join the Yale University faculty in 1996. Tully’s research centers on the development of theoretical and computational tools aimed at achieving an atomic-level understanding of dynamical processes at surfaces and interfaces, and in the condensed phase. Among the theoretical developments he is pursuing are mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics, and improved sampling methods for simulation of rare events. He is applying these techniques to examine the rates and pathways of energy flow that accompany the adsorption, desorption or diffusion of a molecule on a surface, as well as to simulate intrinsically quantum mechanical processes such as electron transfer and proton transfer at interfaces.”

SOURCE: http://www.crisp.yale.edu/index.php/Faculty

CLAIRE VAN UMMERSEN, Senior Advisor, Institutional Leadership Group, American Council on Education

“Dr. Van Ummersen began her career in higher education at the University of Massachusetts in 1968, serving as an assistant professor of biology, promoted to associate professor with tenure, followed by positions as graduate program director for biology, associate dean for Academic Affairs, CAS, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and interim Chancellor of the Boston campus. Following her tenure at the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Van Ummersen served the new Board of Regents of Higher Education for Massachusetts. As chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire from 1986 to 1992, Dr.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Speakers' Biographies." National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. 2014. The Arc of the Academic Research Career: Issues and Implications for U.S. Science and Engineering Leadership: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18627.
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Van Ummersen pioneered video links between the USNH campuses to increase teaching efficiency and provide greater access for students to programming. In 1993, Dr. Van Ummersen was appointed president of Cleveland State University. In 2001, Dr. Van Ummersen joined the American Council on Education as Vice President and Director of the Office of Women in Higher Education, a position in which she managed national agendas in support of advancement of women leaders and a system of 50 state networks to identify and develop emerging leaders. In 2005, Dr. Van Ummersen was tasked by ACE to develop a suite of programs to serve higher education administrators from the time they enter administration until they retire as presidents. A new Center was established and Dr. Van Ummersen served as its Vice President for Effective Leadership from 2005 to 2010, overseeing leadership programs for higher education administrators and grant initiatives on higher education issues. Currently, Dr. Van Ummersen serves as Senior Advisor for the Office of Institutional Initiatives at ACE developing customized services for colleges and universities to assist presidents and other campus leaders meet their needs for leadership development throughout the institution. She continues to consult with campuses on issues concerning major challenges they face to be certain that program content stays relevant to their needs.”

SOURCE: http://tuftsalumni.org/who-we-are/alumni-recognition/tuftsnotables/public-service-education-6/

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America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This change has important implications for the heart of every university: the faculty. To sustain their high level of intellectual excellence and their success in preparing young people for the various roles they will play in society, universities need to be aware of how evolving conditions affect their ability to attract the most qualified people and to maximize their effectiveness as teachers and researchers.

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The Arc of the Academic Research Career is the summary of a workshop convened by The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy in September 2013 to examine major points of strain in academic research careers from the point of view of both the faculty members and the institutions. National experts from a variety of disciplines and institutions discussed practices and strategies already in use on various campuses and identified issues as yet not effectively addressed. This workshop summary addresses the challenges universities face, from nurturing the talent of future faculty members to managing their progress through all the stages of their careers to finding the best use of their skills as their work winds down.

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