The Bias Prevention Component held a workshop called “The Academic Woman: Balancing Responsibilities, Expectations, and Biases” on December 10, 2011 at the E-Center. The workshop formed three focus groups to address the perceptions and realities of gender bias for single female faculty, married/partnered female faculty, and the spouses/partners of the female faculty, and developed a baseline for […]
The JSUAdvance 2011 International Travel Team consisted of Dr. Loretta Moore, Chair and Professor of Computer Science and JSUAdvance PI at Jackson State University; Dr. Jessica L. Buck, Assistant Professor of Technology at Jackson State University; Mrs. Frances Dancer, JSUAdvance Program Director and Computer Science Researcher at Jackson State University, and Dr. Carolyn Howard, Associate […]
Jackson State University held a 2 one-week summer writing retreat off campus with both junior and senior women faculty from the STEM & SBS disciplines in order to provide a means of supporting their research careers by providing a circle of faculty whose focus was to accomplish six major outcomes over the summer: 1) Create […]
The Jackson State University ADVANCE Program, in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, was awarded a grant to host the 2011 STEM Women of Color Conclave held in Atlanta, GA June 3, 2011 – June 5, 2011. This meeting featured a national assembly of approximately two hundred women faculty of color, representing all STEM disciplines, […]
A paper “Let’s Talk Gender at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): The Unspoken Word” was accepted for presentation at the National Social Science and Technology Conference. The meeting was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 17-19, 2011. Drs. Moore, McNeil, and Owens-Sabir began their national dialogue about gender issues on HBCU campuses and the […]
On April 14-16, 2011, Dr. Jacqueline Jackson attended the 2011 ADMI Symposium on Computing at Minority Institutions at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. The ADMI conference provides an avenue for faculty and students at minority institutions to present their research and it also serves as an avenue for professional development. In additional to the […]