May 30, 2008.
The New Jersy Council on Gender Parity's 2nd Annual Women in the Science and Technology workforce summit is again co -sponsored by the Office for Promotion of Women in Science Engineering and Mathematics. It will be in the Conference Center at Mercer, West Windsor, NJ on May 30th. Register here.
The keynote speaker will be Linley Erin Hall author of 'Who's afraid of Marie Curie?'. There will be discussion/breakout sessions on the following topics:
Improving Mentoring Practices, Impact of Workplace Climate, P-16 STEM Education, Using Multi-media Marketing to Promote STEM Careers, Connecting Education and Careers.
January 23, 2008. High Levels of Mercury are found in Tuna Sushi in a study done by Joanna Burger and reported by the NY Times.
Jan. 16, 2008
Competitive funding is available for Leadership programs for female faculty in the ACE and Bryn Mawr -HERS programs.
ACE American Council on Education offers two programs for which funding is available through our office. We will fund two tenured or tenure track faculty women to attend either of these leadership programs, Leadership Forums for Women who wish to become deans and department chairs and leadership workshops on Chairing the Academic Department, a program for both men and women. Funding will cover registration fees, room, per diem and travel to the course.
Funding is available to attend either the Regional Forum for Women's leaders in Philadelphia PA on March 10-12, a women only event, or 'Chairing the Academic Department" in Washington, DC June 18–21, 2008
Hilton Washington, Embassy Row.
Program content for can be found on their website. However, topics include:
Evaluating College Teaching, Working with the Dean, Budgeting in the New Millennium, Leading in Intercultural Environments, Leadership and Team Building.
Application: Due Jan 25, in the form of a short letter indicating your academic leadership goals and a how this program would help you reach them. please indicate in the narrative which program you wish to attend and why that specific program would be optimal to help you meet your leadership goals. The name of a Rutgers professor who can reccomend you should be included.
HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute or Women in Higher Education Administration, June 21- July 16, 2008
We are very pleased to announce that funding is available through the Office of Academic Affairs for one tenured woman with stellar potential in academic leadership to attend the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration from June 21- July 16 in Bryn Mawr PA. Because a letter from the Executive Vice President is required for admission to the HERS Summer Institute program, our office will nominate an outstanding faculty member for funding for this program. Funding will include all fees, travel and room and board.
The Summer Institute began as a joint project of HERS and Bryn Mawr College in 1976, with initial funding from the William H. Donner Foundation. The goal of the founders was to improve the status of women in the middle and executive levels of higher education administration, an area in which women traditionally had been under-represented. Today the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute continues with the twin goals of preparing and advancing women for leadership in higher education administration.
The program accepts women who are actively seeking increased administrative responsibilities and provides
* knowledge and skills in management and governance of institutions of higher education, with special attention to accounting and budgeting, long range planning, information technology, decision making processes, and policy implementation;
* institutional perspective on the pressing issues and problems in higher education today, giving special attention to the growing diversity of the student body and the workforce;
* strategies for professional development with special emphasis on leadership, self-presentation, institutional change, and career planning; and
* continuing supportive network of peers and mentors.
In the past thirty years, over 2,000 women administrators and faculty leaders from throughout the United States, and from Canada, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Nigeria, Sweden, Wales, Iran, Singapore and the Netherlands have graduated from the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute.
More information is available on their website.
Application: Because the Summer Institute is a highly competitive program we will require a cv, a more detailed letter from the candidate and a letter of reccomendation from another Rutgers faculty member in order to select a candidate. The instructions for the candidates letter are from the HERS application form.
We require a self-descriptive letter that:
1. identifies your immediate professional objective;
2. identifies what you consider to be your own special strengths;
3. identifies the problems, if any, which you feel might affect your professional
development;
4. describes the path you would like your career to take, including a specific projection of
where you see yourself, or would like to see yourself, in five years (be as concrete as
possible);
5. outlines the ways in which you think attendance at the Summer Institute will help you
achieve your objectives.
Application deadline: January 31, 2008. NOTE: If no suitable candidate is found, these funds will not be awarded.
Jan. 6, 2008
Our office is pleased to announce our women's leadership program (OASIS),
OASIS Leadership Program
For Rutgers Women Scientists
OASIS (Objective Analysis of Self and Institution Seminar)
Applications are being accepted through January 18, 2007 for the pilot session of OASIS to be held during the Spring semester of 2008. This exciting leadership program is aimed at a select group of 25 tenure-track women scientists from the three campuses of Rutgers University. The program focuses on the dual components of understanding the self as a leader as well as the context of gender and leadership within the academic institution. Rutgers women scientists will develop core personal and professional skills in ½ day Friday workshops. OASIS will provide a safe place for women to express their issues and provide mutual support for each other as they improve their leadership skills. Dates are Feb. 1, Feb. 22., March 7, and either April 4 or 18 from 12-5 pm. Catherine Duckett will provide a draft syllabus on request.
Target Audience: This pilot project will focus on tenure-track and tenured women scientists drawn from all three campuses of Rutgers University.
Areas of Interest:
Self Assessment of one’s own leadership style and development of plan
Team Building, Grant Writing, Communications, Time Management
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Program Benefits for Participants
2007 Selection Process
There is no fee for participants accepted into the program this year.
Application: Please send a short letter or narrative (1-2 pages) outlining your academic goals and why you would like to improve your leadership skills. The name and address of two Rutgers professors who can recommend you as a potential leader or candidate for this course should also be included. Please send you application to sciwomen ‘at’ rci.rutgers.edu before 18 January. If your cv is not available on the women in science faculty profiles webpage please send us your cv as well.
For more information, please contact:
Catherine N. Duckett, Ph.D. email: sciwomen "at" rci.rutgers.edu
Associate Director
Office of the Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
221 Life Sciences Building
Life Sciences Building
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
145 Bevier Rd. (Genetics)
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8082
Tel: 732 445 5425
FAX:(732)445-1147
Oct- Dec. 2007. New 'my story's have been recieved from - Helen Berman, Deborah S. Carr,Dina Fonseca, Martha Greenblatt, Noemie Koller, Sarah Ralston, and Sarah Tomasello.
Sept. 29, 2007
Our office honored the 21st Anniversary of the Douglass project. See below for more details.
Photos of the party are also available.
Sept. 29, 2007
DOUGLASS PROJECT TO CELEBRATE ITS 21st BIRTHDAY
Birthday party will honor biologist and former Douglass dean Jewel Plummer Cobb
WHAT: A celebration of the “coming of age” of the Douglass Project, which supports
women and girls interested in studying the sciences, technology, engineering
or math
WHO: Guest of honor: Jewel Plummer Cobb, cell biologist and former dean of Douglass
College;
Honorees: Ellen Mappen, founder, the Douglass Project, and Mary Hartman, former dean of Douglass College and director of Institute for Women’s Leadership
Introduction by Carmen Twillie Ambar, dean of Douglass Residential College
Speaker: Regina Riccioni, director, Douglass Project
WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bunting-Cobb residence hall for women in science, technology, engineering
and math, Douglass Campus, 47 Dudley Road, New Brunswick
BACKGROUND: The Douglass Project is an award-winning program created in 1986 to support girls and women who want to major in the sciences, technology, engineering or math. The Douglass Project sponsors a four-year hands-on science program for girls in grades 9 to 12. It also provides peer, faculty and graduate student mentoring as well as research, intern and job-shadowing opportunities for women and girls.
Jewel Plummer Cobb, born in 1924, is a cell biologist and physiologist who has received multiple honors for her research on cell pigmentation and for her distinguished educational work on behalf of minorities and women. From 1978 to 1981, Cobb was a professor of biology at Douglass College, where she also served as dean.
This event is sponsored by the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Rutgers University, under the leadership of associate vice president Joan W. Bennett and the associate director of the office, Catherine Duckett.
September 27, 2007
September 27, 2007
Women in Engineering Luncheon at the Busch Campus Center International Lounge, event by prior registration, 11:45-1:15. An event to aid female first year students in Engineering by facilitating introductions to deans, fellow female students and potential role models among the female Engineering faculty. Co- Sponsored by School of Engineering please contact Evelyn Hanna Laffey (ehlaffey at rci.rutgers.edu) for details.
September 14, 2007
Dr. May Berenbaum of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will speak at 11:15 am in the Alampi Room, Institute of Marine and Costal Sciences, 71 Dudley Road, Cook Campus, " The Plight of thehoneybees (Apis mellifera); What's bugging the bees?"
At 3 pm Dr. Berenbaum will give a seminar entitled 'Entomology with 2 X chromosomes: the history of women in the field' at the Institute for Women's Leadership conference room, The Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus.
Our summit on June 8, 2007 was a success with 164 attendees, the agenda is below. Stay tuned to this space for more news and the results of our survey at the summit.
Summit on engaging and
retaining women in the science and technology workforce
Summary:
Our office is partnering with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education to host a statewide summit on engaging and retaining women in the science and technology workforce. The science and technology sector is a major driver of New Jersey's economy, yet women as well as other groups are still under-represented in this workforce. We are looking to bring together representatives from education (teachers, administrators, counselors), government and policy making, industry, and community organizations that have a vested interest in advancing women in these fields for a one-day discussion of how to strengthen our economy by boosting their interest and participation. The summaries of our discussions will be published. ALL ARE WELCOME!
Welcome: 9 am. Dr. Phillip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University.
Keynote Speaker:
Panelists: (2 panels: 'Policy in NJ' & 'The view from the field')
Breakout sessions & session leaders (afternoon):
Time:
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. June 8, 2007
Location:
Douglass Campus Center, Rutgers, University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Further information: Suzanne Eng, 732-932-4614
sceng@rci.rutgers.edu
This event is sponsored by the Rutgers University's Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and, Math in partnership with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education and the Rutgers Center for Women and Work.