ADVANCE Institutional Transformation

Equity Action Workshops

September 14, 2005	ADVANCE Faculty Leave Policy Workshop Venue: Union 212 Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
March 9, 2005	ADVANCE Workshop on Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty in SEM Disciplines Venue: Union 212 Time: 8:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Workshop Speakers : Dr. Myra Gordon, Dr. Brian Spooner, Dr. Mary Rezac.

October 25-27, 2004	Dr. Cynthia Burack, Associate Professor Department of Women's studies Ohio State University Tips from Dr. Burack: Samples of diversity and gender equity languages from various insitutions around the country. Gender Equity Website Evaluation Rubric [.pdf]
October 25	Partner Department Appointments Discussions of individual department website development. Venue: ADVANCE Office, 25A Seaton Hall 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m Department: Chemical engineering 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Department: Geology 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Department: Animal Sciences & Industry, Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology
October 26	Topic: "Toward Gender Equity in Website Design: An NSF ADVANCE Grant Workshop" Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m Venue: Beach Museum of Art VPAST Lecture (Vice Provost for Academic Services & Technology) Time: 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Venue: Beach Museum of Art, UMB Theatre Topic: "Who Are We? Professional Identity and Resistance to Diversity" Partner Department Appoinitments Discussions of individual department website development. Venue: ADVANCE Office, 25A Seaton Hall 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m Department: Biology
October 27	Partner Department Appointments Discussions of individual department website development. Time: 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Venue: ADVANCE Office, 25A Seaton Hall Department: Biological & Agricultural Engineering
March 17-18, 2004	Dr. Cynthia Burack, Associate Professor Department of Women's studies Ohio State University An ADVANCE workshop on the importance of language, images, and communication in groups and institutions. This workshop focussed on how websites can communicate a message of inclusiveness. Profile of Dr. Burack [.pdf] Notes from the workshop: "Evaluating Websites for Diversity" [.ppt] This presentation reveals good and bad examples of how gender is portrayed in "live" websites.
February 20, 2004	Dr. Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology & Linguistics Hunter College & the Graduate Center at CUNY Profile of Dr. Valian [.pdf] Notes from the workshop: "Gender Equity, Whys, Wherefores, therefores"[.pdf] "Using Research on Gender to Create Equity" [.pdf]

Last updated: October 2, 2006

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