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Conferences |
Sometimes ADVANCE Grant Recipients will hold mini conferences for a specific group of people like Department Heads. These conferences are listed below.
In 2008, AdvanceVT hosted the fifth annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop. Workshop agenda and links to presentations by Mark McNamee and Cathy Trower are here.
The fourth annual conference held as part of the ADVANCE program was an effort to evaluate the current initiatives within the project and focus on the results of the Promotion Tenure Advance Committee (PTAC) that have been implemented in the promotion and tenure process at Georgia Tech.
The seventh annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop featured Dr. Freeman Hrabowski as the keynote speaker and breakout sessions on student recruitment, faculty mentoring, work/life balance, employee climate survey findings, and dealing with difference in the workplace.
To be held on March 10th, the National Post Doctoral Association will be hosting a summit in Philadelphia. Keynote speakers include Kathie Olsen. A sample goal is "To examine the unique challenges faced by women as they seek to make the transition from postdoc to faculty.
This webpage is the agenda from a mini two day conference. The names of the presentations and presenters are listed. There are some links to presentations.
The Second Annual Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Conference took place on April 23 and 24, 2003, at the Evergreen Conference Resort at Stone Mountain. Invitees included every tenure-track academic woman faculty member, all deans, associate deans and school chairs, as well as other special guests.
This webpage is the agenda from a mini two day conference. The names of the presentations and presenters are listed.
On this webpage are the summaries from the second round NSF institutional Grantees.
The Third Annual Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Conference took place on April 20 and 21, 2004,at the new Georgia Tech Conference Center. The audience for this national conference included not only Georgia Tech invitees, but also participants from other institutions that hold ADVANCE grants.
The third annual conference held as part of the ADVANCE project was an effort to evaluate the current initiatives within the project in all the ADVANCE grantee institutions. The conference was a national conference and had attendees from other ADVANCE grantee schools and other schools that...
The second annual conference held as part of the ADVANCE program was an effort to evaluate the current initiatives within the project and focus on those in the area of the promotion and tenure process at Georgia Tech. In this light the event was a notable success as it was able to present current trends in promotion and tenure policies and create an awareness among attendees concerning the efforts currently underway to make the promotion and tenure process more transparent and fair.
The complete conference program.
This webpage lists the location and date information of the 2005 in Panel 7 seventh panel and the people involved. The links under each person are broken.
The first annual mini-conference held for the women faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology.
This document is a conference proceedings. The first two pages is the agenda and the last pages are biographies of the speakers.
This webpage is the agenda from a mini two day conference. The names of the presentations and presenters are listed. There are some links to presentations.
This document is the program for a conference. Abstracts are included.
A list of the keynote speaker information and available PowerPoint presentations from the conference.
Dr. Virginia Valian is a Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College-CUNY; author of "Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women," (MIT Press, 1998); and the Hunter College ADVANCE Program Principal Investigator.
The conference was primarily targeted at faculty and administrative professionals in science and technology related fields who are currently involved in or considering careers as tenured faculty members within a university or other educational institution.
The fifth annual conference held as part of the ADVANCE program was an effort to update stakeholders on the current project initiatives at Georgia Tech.
A list of the panel speaker information and PowerPoint presentations from the second day of the conference.
ISU faculty team who attended the 2008 Bix XII Faculty Development Conference reconvened at ISU to share the most important points brought home from the event.
In June 2006, AdvanceVT hosted a conference on preparing for an academic career.
This document is a list of best practices about attending conferences, and why they are important.
In 2009, AdvanceVT hosted the sixth annual Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech workshop. The agenda, status reports, and presentations on inclusive excellence and bias literacy are available here.
On September 18, 2009, an unprecedented gathering took place of leaders of organizations focused on advocating for women at Washington State University and the University of Idaho. The event was co-sponsored by WSU’s Provost, NSF ADVANCE funded EXCELinSECenter, Association for Faculty Women, and the Women’s Resource Center." The sections of this poster from the 2009 PI meeting include a list of participating organizations, mission statements and outcomes.
Agenda for AdvanceVT's second annual Advancing Women at Virginia Tech workshop, with keynote speakers Virginia Valian and Denice Denton.
Starting in 2004, AdvanceVT hosted annual "Advancing Women at Virginia Tech" workshops. Since 2008, the workshops have been co-sponsored by the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and are now entitled "Advancing Diversity at Virginia Tech."
Lehigh University hosts the 18th Annual LVAIC Undergraduate Women’s Studies Conference. All undergraduate students at Lehigh Valley Colleges are invited to submit their original work to the conference. Submissions of a variety of scholarly, scientific, and creative projects with relevance to issues of women and gender in a variety of forms will be accepted until January 27, 2012.
The main objectives of the ADVANCE Scholar Program are to provide mentors for underrepresented women STEM faculty (e.g. women of color, GLBT) and to establish a national conference specifically for women who are marginalized along multiple dimensions.
A Circle of Advocates – Rallying Around the Mentor-Protégé Relationship
Links to conference presentations and posters about the National Postdoctoral Association ADVANCE program.
This NETWORKing workshop, as proposed by Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) and its collaborative partner institution University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), will address faculty advancement and retention of women in STEM disciplines, aligned with NSF’s Career-Life Balance Initiative. The proposed workshop wishes to be the first of a series of conferences targeted to develop a Hispanic NETWORKing Project that through new explorations will promote academic institutional transformations, and new opportu
The Society of STEM Women of Color hosts the annual STEM Women of Color Conclave. This year's Conclave, as in the past, will bring together the largest national assembly of women faculty of color, representing all academic STEM disciplines. This Conclave promises to be an extraordinary and groundbreaking event that will serve to launch the long- awaited Society for STEM Women of Color, and simultaneously catapult the constellation of our efforts to unprecedented levels of influence.
Information on MSU's "mini-conference" on Dual Career opportunities.

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