[COSEAfaculty] Retaining Women in STEM Fields ? an Inside Higher Ed webinar

[Grady P Blount]

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Grady Price Blount (근덕), Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Dean
College of Science, Engineering & Agriculture (CoSEA)
Regional Representative, Texas Engineering Experiment Station 

Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
Telephones:  903-886-5781 (office)      325-716-0450 (cell)
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From: Matt Wood 
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:15 AM
To: Academic Department Heads; Grady P Blount; Haydn Fox; Jim Heitholt; Ben Jang; Larry Lemanski; Sang Suh; Tingxiu Wang; Brent Donham; Kent Montgomery
Cc: Dan Jones; Adolfo Benavides; Daniel Edelman; Arlene Horne
Subject: Retaining Women in STEM Fields - an Inside Higher Ed webinar

 

For any of you who are interested in this topic, we will be hosting this event at noon on Nov 4 in room STC 103.  Please also distribute to your faculty if they would be interested in attending.

 

Matt A. Wood, Ph.D.                                                
Professor and Department Head                              Office:     903.886.5487
Physics & Astronomy Department                          Mobile:    903.269.6682
Texas A&M University-Commerce                         Email:      Matt.Wood at tamuc.edu
Commerce, TX 75429

 

 

Retaining Women in STEM Fields <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InsideHigherEd/c78accbba8/8f7d1360e1/cf58e1f671> 
 

Women are now well-represented in science Ph.D. programs and (in some fields) in junior faculty ranks. But many departments lose women and end up without much diversity on their faculties. On November 4 at 1 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed presents Retaining Women in STEM Fields, a webinar featuring Joan C. Williams, distinguished professor of law and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. This webinar will explore why women leave and what departments, colleges and universities can do about it.

 

Professor Williams will discuss:

*	All the ways departments can save money by eliminating a chilly climate for women.
*	The importance of family friendly policies.
*	The way the right policies can avoid legal problems - and the wrong policies can leave departments and institutions vulnerable.

click to register 1 <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InsideHigherEd/c78accbba8/8f7d1360e1/5b96e76dab> 

 

The webinar draws on work prepared for the Tools for Change Project, funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Williams is Co-PI on the grant together with Mary Ann Mason, professor of the Graduate School and faculty codirector of the Berkeley Law Center on Law and Social Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Association for Women in Science. The program is ideal for department heads, deans, academic affairs officers, EEO/AA officers and STEM faculty.

 

The webinar costs $199 and will consist of a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute question period. There is no conference call required for this event - the entire presentation, including audio, is delivered via the web. You may gather as many colleagues as you like to view the webinar via one monitor, but only one login per registration will be allowed. PLEASE NOTE: You’ll need Adobe Flash Player version 11.2 or newer to view this webinar. This event will be captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing by SpeechText Access.

 

Enter the discount code OCT2013 at checkout and get $25 off your registration fee.

 

click to register 1 <http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InsideHigherEd/c78accbba8/8f7d1360e1/703a055359> 

 

About the Presenter:
Joan C. Williams is a distinguished professor of law and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is the author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000) and What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Every Woman Should Know (forthcoming NYU Press, 2014) with her daughter, Rachel Dempsey.

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