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BULLETIN Proceedings of the HMS Faculty Council This is the second part of the summary of issues discussed at the April 23 Faculty Council meeting. Clinical Teaching Eleanor Shore, dean for faculty affairs, and Mary Clark, associate dean for faculty affairs, reviewed the use of clinician-teacher criteria and discussed ways to assess the impact of clinical teaching for purposes of promotion. Clark provided a brief history of the criteria for promotion since 1989. Clark explained that the School maintains a record of the criteria used at the time of last promotion in order to be able to tabulate use of these criteria in the promotion process over time. The data for associate and assistant professors revealed that over the last five years the percentage of faculty being promoted by investigator criteria has generally decreased each year, while the percentage promoted by clinician-teacher criteria has increased. Overall after five years, the percentages of faculty promoted to assistant, associate, and full professor by the two criteria are equalizing. Shore noted that as one rises up the academic ladder, it is expected that the impact of teaching will have an increasing scope of influence. For example, at the assistant professor level, local impact is sufficient; but at associate professor level, there must be regional or national impact; and at full professor level, national or international impact is required. Shore told the council that the promotion committees are always looking for new and better ways to document impact of teaching and clinical contributions. These activities are more difficult to evaluate than are bibliographies of peer-reviewed papers. Shore further noted that a committee being chaired by David G. Nathan, the Robert A. Stranahan distinguished professor of pediatrics, is focusing on attribution of credit for middle authors of multi-authored papers. When the committee has completed its work, it will present a report to the Council of Academic Deans and the Faculty Council. Grant Gender Parity Tayyaba Hasan, faculty chair of the Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW), and Susan Waisbren, vice chair of the grant gender parity study subcommittee of the JCSW, presented a preliminary report on the grant gender parity study for Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and HMS. The subcommittee, which was chaired by Julie Buring, included Linda Clayton, Rosemary Duda, Ellice Lieberman, Marge Livingstone, Carol Nadelson, and Nancy Tarbell. At HMS and the four hospitals examined, on average, women submitted 21 percent of the total grant applications. The overall success rates were similar among men and women. Nevertheless, women tended to ask for less funding (Median funding in dollars for women vs. men was as follows: CH: 140,000 vs. 207,000; MGH: 176,000 vs. 200,000; HMS: 67,000 vs. 100,000; BWH: 62,000 vs. 75,000). The one exception was the Joslin where women, on average, requested more funding (84,000 vs. 60,000). Additionally, there is a difference in leadership positions on program project and training grants, with women in only 18 percent of the leadership roles. JCSW Annual Report Hasan also presented the annual report of the JCSW and a request for approval of change in JCSW bylaws. The request would more clearly define and widen the ex officio (nonvoting) membership and allow members whose terms of service had expired, but who wished to continue to serve, the ability to maintain an affiliation with the committee and work with it in a nonvoting capacity. In the discussion that followed, one member of the Faculty Council recommended that the Medical School find funding to support at least one additional full-time staff person. When brought to a vote, the recommended change in the bylaws, as well as the recommendation for additional staffing, were passed unanimously.   Provost Addresses HST Graduates Harvard University provost Steven Hyman delivered the keynote speech at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology graduation on June 6. Hyman, who is also an HMS professor of neurobiology, served from 1996 to 2001 as director of the National Institute of Mental Health.