Resources: Additional Items of Interest

We are still young, so the information on some of these pages may seem meager today, but it will grow. Check back often for new information, and please submit your suggestions for this page to info@empoweringleadership.org.

U Florida Will Rebuild Its Faculty Ranks: An article in the Miami Herald by Gabriella Montell, indicating that The University of Florida plans to use federal stimulus money to hire up to 100 new professors, helping replenish the faculty after a year of cuts. Read more - u_florida_will_rebuild.html.

Hispanic PhD Profiles: We are happy to announce the new HispanicPhD profile page located at http://cahsi.cs.utep.edu/hispanicphd. All list members can add the profiles to this page. This serves as the first step towards having an online presence; this was one of the most requested features by all of you at Tapia 2009. With these public profiles, we can browse and find Hispanic colleagues in the computing sciences. It also allows us to have some public visibility as a group. We hope that this space will encourage collaborations, networking and support amongst all of us.  Thanks to Dr. Ann Gates, Bruce Edmunds and Arnoldo Herrera Jr. of CAHSI for their contributions of web space, time and effort.  Please visit the profiles page at http://cahsi.cs.utep.edu/hispanicphd and update your profile. The instructions for creating the profile are on the page. Upload your photo and enter a few personal pieces of information and your are done. Note that for now, you must be a member of the list to have your profile there. We will find ways to relax that restriction later. Dr. Manuel Perez-Quinones and Dr. Jose Andre Morales

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS): Find out how biomedical engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists use computers to answer important health-related questions in a free science education booklet called Computing Life. (get a pdf version here, 1.3 MB) The booklet features short articles, colorful graphics, and fun sidebars that highlight the different roles of computers and related advances in medical research. It also introduces science students to potential new career opportunities. Also, visit the Web site every month to find new research advances, interviews, interactive games, and multimedia or to order a free copy of the printed booklet. -- http://publications.nigms.nih.gov/cl.html.

University of Washington: Links to a number of resources from an Alliance partner on creating more accessible products and environments through the use of universal design. The focus here is on the accessible design of information technology and universal design in education. -- http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/udesign.html.

Will higher education live up to its democratic purpose and undertake the kind of deep change in institutional culture needed to create the conditions for sustained civic engagement? The Democratic Engagement White Paper, Saltmarsh, J., Hartley, M. and P.H.Clayton (2009) is one of the outcomes of a February 26-27, 2008, meeting of 30 academics and academic leaders at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio for the purpose of critically examining the state of civic engagement in higher education -- http://futureofengagement.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/democratic-engagement-white-paper/.

The Top 10 best jobs in America today as rated by Careercast.com (the top 6 are STEM fields). -- http://www.careercast.com/jobs/content/JobsRated_10BestJobs.

Fourteen African American Ph.D. Researchers in Computer Science. A publication by Bryant York for Black History Month 2009. -- pdf file, 551 KB

Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies by A. Kalev, F. Dobbin, E. Kelly, American Sociological Review, 2006, Vol. 71. -- pdf file, 277 KB

Report of the Academic Competitiveness Council, US Department of Education, May 2007 -- pdf file, 1.12 MB

Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST) report "U.S. Minority Population Tops 100 Million", May 23, 2007 -- pdf file, 56 KB.

National Center for Women & Information Technology: Better Approaches to Well-Intentioned, but Harmful Messages -- pdf file, 395 KB.

National Center for Women & Information Technology: Why should young women consider a career in Information Technology? -- pdf file, 1.74 MB.

University of Washington: Communication Hints when talking with or presenting to people with disabilities -- html file.

One Hundred One Ideas for Small Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing -- pdf file, 2.92 MB.

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