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1. Receive and disseminate information from the ADEA, its Center for Equity and Diversity, and other agencies that advocate for women in academics and health professions
careers.
2. Establish a coaching relationship with junior faculty members.
3. Serve as a liaison with other professional women’s organizations.
4. Consult on issues such as institutional culture, policy, recruitment, and retention of women faculty and faculty development programs.
5. Facilitate mentoring by establishing or participating in mentorship programs.
6. Initiate programs to assist the professional and personal development of women students, faculty, and staff.
7. Disseminate information and recruit candidates for scholarship and fellowship programs.
8. Foster the participation of women dental colleagues in campus and community activities to raise awareness of women’s issues.
9. Encourage participation of dental colleagues in forums that highlight women’s health and women’s oral health issues.
10. Establish a mentoring program between schools that have higher numbers of women faculty with those that do not.
11. Identify administrator(s) for recognition of activities that have changed the institutional culture for women.