Rose joined FIU in 2000 as the director of the Women’s Studies Center (as the Center for Women and Gender Studies was then known) and a professor of both women’s studies and psychology. Other previous administrative roles at FIU include serving as the founding executive director of the School of Integrated Science and Humanity and senior associate dean for the sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences (as the College of Arts, Sciences & Education was then known).
Through FIU ADVANCE, Rose is creating a model for inclusion by educating employees on the ways that implicit bias keeps certain groups down. Through case studies and role-playing, faculty and staff learn to recognize how they often unwittingly exclude others by, for example, putting greater weight on hires with backgrounds similar to their own.
This work dovetails with the Faculty Mentor Program, a formal mentorship program for faculty she began in 2011 that has since seen some 500 individuals form bonds and learn from one another. Complementary to that initiative, she was instrumental in founding the Women’s Faculty Leadership Institute, a one-day leadership program for women faculty that annually brings together 100+ participants around themes such as strategic career planning and assertiveness communication.
Rose has published extensively on issues related to gender, race and sexual orientation, including professional networks, career development, leadership, friendship, and personal relationships. She has consulted with many universities both nationally and internationally concerning strategies for recruiting and retaining women faculty in science and engineering.