#3 - Raising Your Profile with Jeanne Zaino

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Promoting and celebrating other women in academia through networks of women.
• Self-promotion can feel like bragging and can make you uncomfortable.
• Promoting the work of faculty is important to the university and society.
• Ways that institutions can structure and increase the promotion of faculty work.
• The solitary life of the academic and the advantages of being part of a larger community.
• Women Also Know and University of Venus as models of women promoting other women.
• Recognizing and celebrating more mainstream publications such as op-eds and podcasts.
• Providing op-ed writing workshops and training faculty and public relations offices on methods for publicizing faculty work.
• Developing a fast-response team to help faculty and staff respond effectively to media requests.
• The need for a critical mass of female leaders on campus to change the culture to get women more comfortable with self-promotion.
• Getting over the idea that your work speaks for itself and that someone will find it.
• Finding a way to talk about and share your work in a way that you can be proud of.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Jeanne Zaino, Iona College
• University of Venus blog post on raising your profile on campus
• Women Also Know Stuff
• The Conversation

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas