Council for the Representation and Engagement of Women Faculty (CREW)

The Council for the Representation and Engagement of Women Faculty serves as an advisory council to the provost in support of the career success of women faculty at RIT.

Promoting Faculty Career Success

Our mission is to support, retain, and promote career success of women faculty at RIT. 

 


Identify and support effective strategies and activities that promote career success of women faculty


Assist women faculty in finding and developing networks


Promote leadership development and mentoring activities for women faculty


Provide support needed for women faculty to be successful through tenure and promotion


Communicate and collaborate with other groups concerned with gender and diversity


Identify the issues that women faculty face and develop actions to address these issues


Facilitate awareness among administration and the university regarding these issues


Make recommendations to the Provost on studies or actions needed to address particular issues needed to create an academic environment that fosters the academic success of women faculty at RIT

Each college has a faculty representative to serve on this council.

Each college nominates a faculty representative to serve on this council. They are then invited by the provost to join CREW.

Malarvizhi Hirudayaraj

Associate Professor

Heidi Nickisher

Principal Lecturer
School of Art
College of Art and Design

Jeanne Christman

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
College of Engineering Technology

Elizabeth Ruder

Associate Professor
Nutrition Program
College of Health Sciences and Technology

Elena Sommers

Principal Lecturer
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

Kara Maki

Associate Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science

Sharon Mason

Professor
School of Information
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Callie Babbitt

Professor
Department of Sustainability
Golisano Institute for Sustainability

Sonia Lopez Alarcon

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering

Kim Kurz

Professor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Makini Beck

Assistant Professor
Academic Affairs

Karen Tobin

Senior Lecturer
Department of Science and Mathematics
National Technical Institute for the Deaf