UNM faculty members are still affected by ongoing stress and work obstacles stemming from the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report compiled by Advance at UNM. The report, based on data collected in spring 2022, found faculty feeling burned out, strapped by caregiving obligations, and struggling with scholarship amid a pandemic that scientists […] Read More
The UNM administration and UA UNM have been addressing the impact of COVID-19 on faculty through a variety of policy and process changes. Advance at UNM has compiled the changes related to milestone evaluations below, including the opt-out tenure extension for faculty who started before January 2021, and the flexibility faculty have to document the pandemic’s […] Read More
Recommendations include changes in annual and milestone review expectations and continued flexibility in remote work During the second half of the fall 2020 semester, ADVANCE at UNM asked all full-time main campus faculty to participate in a climate survey that included questions about the impact of COVID-19. The ADVANCE Social Science Research Team has […] Read More
Work-life balance has been a longstanding challenge for faculty, particularly along the lines of gender and race. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified and added to these challenges in unique ways. Learning about these obstacles can provide academic leaders with tools to try to alleviate them. In the report below, we present quantitative and qualitative data […] Read More
UNM’s parental leave policy works well in units in which the leadership understands the policy, is supportive of faculty using the policy, and can help departmental faculty with the implementation and subsequent evaluation of faculty accomplishments. Supportive colleagues clearly play an important role in the experiences of new parents. Likewise, unsupportive or uninformed leadership and […] Read More
The Advance at UNM Social Science Research Team (SSRT) is working towards publishing journal articles about three different University of New Mexico campus climate studies. Through two of the three studies, the team found that women and underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in STEM fields perceive an overall lower climate than white men in STEM fields. […] Read More
Researchers at the University of New Mexico are hoping to better understand the campus climate for underrepresented minority and white women faculty in STEM fields and across the university as part of a five-year National Science Foundation grant. As part of their research to gauge general campus climate and support […] Read More
The vast majority of UNM faculty, graduate students, and staff strongly support having the university’s spring break at the same time of the break for Albuquerque Public Schools, a study by Advance at UNM has found. Eighty two percent of faculty strongly support alignment while 79 percent of staff expressed strong support in the survey done […] Read More
Members of the Advance at UNM social science research team are working on innovative ways to promote diversity on the UNM campus, particularly among leadership positions.To engage leaders at UNM, the group is using the Dobbin-Kalev managerial engagement model of diversity promotion, which is based on their extensive analysis of human resources policies in private […] Read More
In the fall of 2016, we asked you to help us by completing a survey designed to give us a snapshot of life on campus as we began to design and roll out the Advance program. As promised, here is a summary of some of the interesting survey results including levels of trust on […] Read More
