SU ADVANCE Online Library

The SU ADVANCE Online Library is an extensive database of equity-related resources.

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Seattle University is a Jesuit, Catholic university with a focus on academic excellence, community engagement, diversity, and social justice.  The SU_ADVANCE Library was created with support from a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant focused on the advancement of women faculty and minoritized faculty in institutions of higher education.

The Library contains material relevant to academic faculty, university administrators, and individuals and organizations interested in common equity issues that affect workplace environments.

The Library was created as a resource for those looking for current practices, policies, and information relating to inclusion, equity, and diversity in higher education more generally, as well as in STEM fields; work-life balance, workplace climate, and job satisfaction; and mission-based institutions of higher education within the academy in the United States. The Library includes peer-reviewed journal articles and books, relevant public commentaries and magazine articles, and white papers and ADVANCE reports from other institutions and programs. 

How to Use the SU ADVANCE Library

Officially titled The SU ADVANCE Library, the Open Group SU ADVANCE Zotero library is sorted into 12 categories or collections (which appear as folder icons in the library on the left side of the webpage). These categories allow users to narrow searches by identifying specific meta-topics of interest. These categories were created after initially gathering sources and creating an annotated bibliography outside of Zotero. We then created folders within our Zotero platform that corresponded to these twelve categories. “Open Group” in this case means the version of the library that anyone who visits the SU ADVANCE website and clicks on the library link can access.  

The current categories/folders/collections are as follows:

  1. Materials and tools from NSF ADVANCE Programs;
  2. Assessments of faculty workload;
  3. Annual review processes and files;
  4. Tenure and promotion processes and portfolios;
  5. Tenure track vs. contract faculty;
  6. Faculty/staff/student characteristics that influence experiences in the academy;
  7. Employee/employer characteristics that influence experiences in the non-academic workplace;
  8. Literature based on Boyer’s educational models;
  9. Campus climate/Community well-being;
  10. Mission-based institutions of higher education;
  11. Organizational structure;
  12. Multi-paths to promotion in the academy. 

 
Zotero has a general search feature that allows casual users to search the entire database for key words/phrases, authors, or titles. A single entry in the library will usually be included in several categories/folders. Quick searches show items whose authors, years, metadata, tags, or text content match the search terms and are performed from the Zotero toolbar at the top right-hand side of the library. 
Additionally, all entries in the library are given tags to provide another method for users to search for relevant works within the database. The tags were generated after the creation of the library, again using the themes that emerged in the literature. 

The current SU ADVANCE Library tags are as follows: 

  1. ADVANCE
  2. Associate Professor
  3. BIPOC
  4. Campus Climate
  5. Community Engagement
  6. COVID-19
  7. Diversity
  8. Equity
  9. Faculty Support
  10. Faculty Workload
  11. Gender Bias
  12. Grant
  13. Hiring
  14. Institutional Transformation
  15. Intersectionality
  16. Intervention
  17. Job Satisfaction
  18. Leadership
  19. LGBTQ+
  20. Mentoring
  21. Mission-Based Institutions Networking 
  22. Policy
  23. Promotion
  24. Racial Bias
  25. Retention
  26. Social, Behavioral, Economic Sciences
  27. STEM
  28. Tenure
  29. Toolkit
  30. Visibility
  31. Workshop

The home page of The SU ADVANCE Library shows the twelve categories/folders, the tags, and the first items in the library, sorted alphabetically by title, creator, and date modified, with user ability to alter the order of the sorting label.