Sheryl WuDunn: Our Century's Greatest Injustice
Sheryl WuDunn, author of Half the Sky, addresses TED audience on issues and implications of global gender inequities. Sheryl issues a call to action for those who "won the lottery of life" to support girls and women across the world transfer "out of the vicious cycle and into the virtuous cycle".
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Institutional Transformation at North Dakota State University
Paper describes efforts at NDSU to implement aspects of the ADVANCE IT program between 2002 and 2007 without the financial resources of being a funded ADVANCE IT program. NDSU leveraged ADVANCE materials and processes gaining management buy-in, and implementing data collection and no/low-cost policy and organizational changes. In 2008, NDSU became an ADVANCE IT grantee, enabling them to accelerate their organizational change efforts.
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Creating a Climate That Fosters Institutional Change
CASEE effort focusing on ASME, IEEE, and Project Lead the Way (PLTW) to incorporate gender research and principles of gender equity into their member programs.
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Advancing Women Faculty at the New Jersey Institute of Technology through Collaborative Research Networks: an Analysis of Preliminary Results and Methodology
NJIT ADVANCE program aimed at overcoming barriers to the advancement for women research faculty caused by isolation and lack of social capital building opportunities. Describes social network analysis (SNA) study to understand self-reported ego-networks of faculty.
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The Use of Hands-on Science Kits to Develop Interest in the Engineering Program at Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar outreach project to high school students of hands-on science kit implemented in one hour class
periods in high schools. The goal of this project is to create a network of teachers and counselors that will advise their students about the benefits of the Sweet Briar Engineering Program. Another goal is to create excitement for science and engineering amongst high school students.
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