Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions

Computing Research Association

Committee on the Status of Women

in

Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W)

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Co-located with SIGCSE 2009, Chattanooga, TN

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Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) face particular challenges in pursuing and maintaining academic careers at primarily undergraduate academic institutions. Women academicians in CSE typically have few female colleagues to provide critical information about the culture and content required for successful academic careers.

Women are significantly underrepresented at all levels of the academic Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) pipeline. This scarcity of senior women, who provide the role models, teachers, and mentors that female students need if they are to see careers in CSE as viable and that male students need if they are to develop appropriately balanced views of female colleagues is of particular concern. As computing technology becomes increasingly pervasive, the under-representation of women translates a loss of opportunity for individuals, a loss of talent to the Information Technology (IT) workforce, and a devastating loss of creativity in shaping the future of society.

To help this situation, the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W) will sponsor a career/mentoring workshop titled Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women at Undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering Institutions. The day-long workshop, to be held on Wednesday, March 4, will be co-located with the SIGCSE 2009 conference in Chattanooga.

The goal of the workshop is to provide critical mentoring information for women at all career levels in undergraduate teaching. The target audiences of the workshop are pre-tenure faculty and graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering who are interested in an academic career, as well as post-tenure (senior) faculty seeking to improve their teaching and mentoring skills.

Tentative topics will include:

• Staying Current in a Generalist Environment / Resources for Teaching
• Teaching Strategies and Learning Styles
• Mentoring Students
• Getting Started with Research / Finding Funding / Research with Undergraduates
• Promotion and Tenure: Issues and Strategies
• Time Management
• Balancing strategies for coordinating teaching, research, service activities

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The workshop is by invitation only

after completing and submitting the following application.

Application to Attend Workshop

Applicants should furnish the information stated below and send it electronically to Sheila Castaneda, using the email address given.

1. Name
2. Position (instructor, assistant professor, graduate student, etc.)
3. Academic institution, address
4. Email address
   
   
5. Dates of any previous CRA-sponsored workshops on Academic Careers for Women
6. To apply for financial support include detailed information about:

· Estimated cost of attending the Workshop

· Estimated cost of also attending the SIGCSE 2009 conference

· Maximum funding support you will be able to receive from your home institution or other grants to attend the workshop and/or the SIGCSE conference

7. Number of days that you will stay and attend the SIGCSE 2009 conference
   
   
8. Two to three paragraphs explaining what you see as the benefits of attending this workshop for both yourself and your institution. In particular, please address the workshop's goal of advancing career development for women in academics, specifically related to undergraduate education.

Email your completed application to

cast@clarke.edu

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Selection Criteria to Attend Workshop

The three main criteria used to determine who will be awarded financial support to attend the workshop are:

1. Applicant's contribution to the workshop's goal of advancing career development for women in academics, specifically related to undergraduate education.

2. Financial need of applicant.

3. Maximizing the number of participants at the workshop.

Two secondary criteria include

4. Applicant has not attended one of these kinds of workshops in the past five years.

5. Applicant would be able to stay and attend all or part of SIGCSE 2009.

Financial support will cover expenses, up to a maximum of $900, related to

• travel (airfare and ground transportation)
• Managing the Academic Career workshop registration
• hotel accommodations
• SIGCSE 2009 registration
• NOTE: other SIGCSE workshops will NOT be funded