| Jan 3 |
A. Introductions and Goals.
Definitions. B. Logistics and Assignments. Proper referencing. Using the web appropriately. |
Jan 5 |
A. Historical Overview -- Women B. Historital Overview -- Minorities [Choose Presentation Dates and Topics] reading assignment |
| Jan 10 | Stories of Individual Scientists -- their lives and
contributions -- Women and Ethnic Minorities reading assignment |
Jan 12 | A. Current status in academia -- Nelson Surveys B. How to acquire, read, analyze statistical data. reading assignment |
| Jan 17 |
A. Current status at UW ADVANCE departments.
Guest: Sheila
Edwards-Lange B. Discuss Assignments reading assignment |
Jan 19 |
A. Statistics of high school math and science B. Minority students transitioning from high school to college to careers reading assignment |
| Jan 24 | A. History of UW's
women and ethnic minorities in Science & Engineering since 1970 B. Discussion of Statistics Reports [Statistics Report Due] reading assignment |
Jan 26 |
Changes in a Lifetime (Guest: Irene
Peden) [Choose intervention program for UW Intervention Report] reading assignments |
| Jan 31 |
Introduction to Climate and how to measure it UW Leadership, Community, and Values Initiative (LCVI), MIT Report, Harvard President Address, and the responses to them. reading assignments |
Feb 2 |
Panel on Successful Programs at UW.
ADVANCE , WISE, GO-MAP, Pre-MAP, etc. reading assignments |
| Feb 7 |
A. •Student
Presentation:
Climate at K-12 Level B. •Student Presentation: Interventions K-12 Level reading assignments [Project and Policy Memo Proposals Due] |
Feb 9 |
Academic Climate
for
Minorities and Impact of administrative interventions: Guest: Warren
Buck reading assignments |
| Feb 14 | A. Women in National Labs B. Role of Professional Societies Guest: TBA reading assignments [UW Intervention Report Due] |
Feb 16 |
A. International Climate; Industrial Climate B. •Student Presentation: Role models and stereotypes reading assignments |
| Feb 21 | A. Introduction to Policy. B. Previous policy memos. reading assignments [Personal Reflection Due] |
Feb 23 |
Morella, BEST reports: Policy and Best
Practices. reading assignments |
| Feb 28 |
A. •Student Presentation:
Testing and Standards in K-12 OR College/Graduate (SAT/GRE) B. •Student Presentation: National Equity Laws (FMLA, Nepotism, Title IX) [First Draft Policy Memo Due] reading assignments |
Mar 2 |
Guest: Maresi Narad Policy and its influence on status and climate reading assignments |
| Mar 7 |
Guest: Helen Remick --
examples of UW/State/National policies,
how they were implemented, and what was their impact. reading assignments |
Mar 9 |
Discussion of current policy memos Final Summary and Discussion reading assignments |
| March 13 |
Final
Paper
Due Final Policy Memo Due |