WSC e-bulletin - February 2008

The new semester is already well underway and the months ahead offer many opportunities to come together in our Women’s Studies Learning Community to advance the academic and activist commitments of our field. Below please note upcoming opportunities to recognize achievement, build community, and advance learning. Please read the materials over carefully and decide where and when you would like to participate.

Conferences

The UW-Green Bay Women’s Studies Program and campus members of the UW System Inclusivity Initiative have been very busy working on behalf of our larger academic communities. On April 4-5, 2008 representatives of the fourteen campus Women’s Studies Programs in the UW System as well as the UW-Extension, The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian and the Women and Science Program, and LGBTQ people and their allies will come together at UW-Green Bay with representatives from the State’s Liberal Arts Colleges and Technical Colleges to participate in the 32nd annual Wisconsin Women’s Studies conference and the third annual UW System LGBTQ Spring Conference. This year’s themes are Women and the Environment: Literary, Scientific, and Cultural Perspectives, and LGBTQ Environments: Academia and Beyond. The conferences will bring together over 300 academics, teachers, students, community leaders and activists to build learning communities and share strategies for creating inclusive and diverse campus climate. Register by March 3st for the early bird registration fee. You will find program and registration materials here:
http://www.uwgb.edu/outreach/environment/html/regInfo.htm

Awards

A highlight of both conferences will be the annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Saturday, April 5, when seventeen Women of Color Honorees selected by the UW System, UW-Extension, and UW campuses will be recognized for their achievements.

The event is held in conjunction with the annual Women’s Studies Conference to acknowledge the ties and shared concerns among administrators, faculty, staff and students within Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies. University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Consortium, and the Office of Diversity and Development are pleased to have had this opportunity to recognize seventeen women from around the state for their extensive contributions to their campuses and/or communities. The Women of Color Award Ceremony was initiated in 1994 to acknowledge the ties and shared concerns among administrators, faculty, staff, and students within women’s studies and ethnic studies, and to uphold a continuing commitment to the goals of Plan 2008: Educational Quality through Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Each UW System campus was invited to select one woman to receive this recognition. Please join us in recognizing the following award recipients.



If you would like to attend the Awards Luncheon, but do not plan to attend the conference, please send a check for $10.00 per person and the names of the attendees to: WOCE Awards, WSC UW System, 1660 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Please include a return address for confirmation and directions to the event. The awards luncheon is part of registration fees for conference attendees. A biography of each award recipient will be posted in mid-March here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc2008.htm

Activism in Action

Campus Violence Prevention Grant: Three campuses working together

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Viterbo University, and Western Technical College have collaborated on a Campus Violence Violence Prevention Grant funded by the Department of Justice's Office of Violence Against Women. Although this project has been up and running for only 13 months, they have seen many grant goals accomplished. Each campus now has a Violence Prevention Specialist who does advocacy, education and training for the campus on Dating Violence, Stalking and Sexual Assault. Mandatory Training of incoming students and transfer students has begun and police and judicial boards have been trained by the VP Specialist. Sandra Krajewski, Director of women's Studies reports that on the UW-La Crosse the campus reported sexual assaults have double (from 9 to 18), and a support group is meeting weekly. A Coordinated Community Response Committee is reviewing policy and protocol on all three campuses. They have just requested funding for another 3 years. If you want to hear more, attend their presentation on April 5th at the Women's Studies Conference.

UW-Whitewater offers Women and Leadership Mini-conference

April 12th, 2008

Lauren Smith, Chair of Women's Studies reports that the UW-Whitewater Women's Studies Program has received an OPID Conference grant to bring faculty and academic staff together to consider how to teach toward leadership. Empowering students to move from understanding social issues to understanding their own responsibility and capacity for civic engagement is one of the most important goals of Women’s Studies programs. Teaching leadership and engagement presents many challenges. UW-Whitewater’s Women and Leadership mini-conference—April 12, 11-3--will provide an opportunity to Women’s Studies professors in Wisconsin to begin a more sustained discussion about the effective teaching of commitment and leadership. The conference will begin with a talk and question-and-answer session with Yvonne Lumsden-Dill from Mount Mary College, which has established a successful Women’s Leadership Institute (see program announcement in ‘Save the Dates’ and 'Opportunities for Students'). Participants will then explore a range of possible learning objectives in relation to civic engagement and discuss potential objections or challenges to establishing such objectives. Finally, participants will discuss assessment of civic engagement objectives.

The long-term goals for the gathering are to determine the most successful strategies and programs to help our students, particularly our women students, take on a broader range of leadership goals. Teaching women to become leaders may be especially urgent for Wisconsin students, who have fewer models for women in leadership than do students in many other parts of the country. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington D.C. (www.iwpr.org), Wisconsin ranks in the 50th percentile in the nation for women in political leadership and about the 25th percentile for women in business management. What for a future announcement as to how to register or contact Lauren Smith, Director, UW-Whitewater Women’s Studies Program for more information

New book on Service Learning in Women's Studies and the Disciplines

I would like to call your attention to a new book service learning in women's studies that has been contributed two members of our Women's Studies learning community. The Handbook on Service Learning in Women's Studies and the Disciplines brings together educators from several disciplines (English, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Women's/Gender Studies) who teach a women's studies service learning course, or a course with significant attention to gender and diversity. Long time UW System leader in activist experiential learning, Nancy Worcester, of the UW-Madison Women's Studies Program contributes several chapters, as does Tamara Berg, Director of Women's Studies at Winona State. This collection of service learning syllabi, assignments, and essays provides the reader with numerous methods and examples of how service learning can be incorporated into a wide array of courses differentially situated within the curriculum of a college or university. For example, teaching a women's studies course that is also a general education course requires a somewhat different logic and set of practices than an upper level women's studies course within the major, or a course which serves as a culminating experience for the major. Also addressed is how to transform spring break and internships into service leaning options and how to create a summer camp that serves the community. Guidelines, advice, and lessons learned provide the reader with the information necessary to initiate a service learning course
Table of context and order form can be found at
http://www.towson.edu/itrow/2%20-%20Major-Degree%
20Requirements/ITROWServiceLearningHandbook.asp

If you are a new subscriber to the WSC E-Bulletin, it may be useful to know that the Women’s Studies Consortium works to ensure the continued development of Women's Studies in the UW System, to work to increase racial and cultural diversity in and across the curriculum, to maintain our current national prominence in the field, and to create a unique inter-institutional model for educational innovation. The Consortium:

* Focuses on initiatives in instruction, research, outreach, library resource development and international programs.
* Encourages all the UW System Women's Studies programs to fulfill central goals of the mission of the University, leading to the continued growth and development of education by, for, and about women in the State of Wisconsin.
* Offers, through its Women's Studies programs, approximately 300 courses to a total of over 8,000 students yearly.
* Promotes communication and collaboration among the System's Women's Studies departments, programs, research centers, faculty members and scholars.

Watch this e-bulletin for announcements about the projects, events, and opportunities that our joint efforts bring to the students, faculty and staff of the UW system. Please take the time to look through this very packed issue of the Women’s Studies E-bulletin. We have something for everyone.

Helen Klebesadel, Director
University of Wisconsin System

The 32nd Annual Wisconsin Women's Studies Conference, and
3rd Annual UW System LGBTQ Spring Conference
April 4-5, 2008, UW-Green Bay
Register Here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/confer/annualconf.htm
Early bird registration due by March 3rd

13th Annual Outstanding Women of Color in Education Awards and Luncheon
April 5, 2008, UW Green Bay
More information here: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/events/woc/woc.htm

UW-Whitewater offers Women and Leadership Mini-conference
April 12th, 2008
Learn about strategies for empowering students to move from understanding social issues to understanding their own responsibility and capacity for civic engagement. Contact Lauren Smith, Director, UW-Whitewater Women’s Studies Program for more information

The Women’s Studies Consortium has changed its web address. Please update your links to reflect the change to: http://wsc.uwsa.edu/aboutwsc/director.htm

The Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian has also changed its URL. Please update your links to include http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/n>

The UW-LaCrosse Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, the Women's Studies Student Organization, and the Organization for Campus Women invite you to join them!
When: Monday, March 10
Who: Ellen Bravo, author of Taking on the Big Boys
Where: 2 Events

* Her life as a Labor Activist: 4 pm at the Port O'Call
* Forget the Glass Ceiling, We need to Redesign the Building: 7 pm at Valhalla More Information:
* Event Flier: http://www.uwlax.edu/ocw/ellenbravo.pdf
* Ellen Bravo's Website: http://www.ellenbravo.com/
* Taking on the Big Boys: http://laclib.wisconsin.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=602667

Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership (WWHEL)
Spring 2008 Workshops
Building on the Best in People & Organizations: Appreciative Inquiry
Presented by Mary B. Wacker
All workshops are from 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM at the following five locations
· Thursday, April 10, 2008, UW-Marathon County
· Friday, April 11, 2008, Edgewood College
· Friday, April 18, 2008, Waukesha County Technical College
· Monday, April 28, 2008, UW-Superior
· Tuesday, April 29, 2008, UW-Green Bay\
Register here: http://www.wwhel.org/

Women & Science Spring Conference
May 15-16, 2008, Place TBA
Watch here: http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/index.php

NWSA Conference 2008
Resisting Hegemonies: Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire
June 19-22, Cincinnati, Ohio
http://www.nwsaconference.org/

NEWPride
Inaugural pride event in Northeast Wisconsin.
Green Bay, WI on July 12, 2008.
A new non-profit organization called NEWPride is planning a northeast Wisconsin Pride event similar to PrideFest in Milwaukee and Pride events in various cities throughout the country. The goal of the event is to perpetuate a positive LGBT presence in Northeast Wisconsin and allow businesses and organizations to create a relationship with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community. This one-day event will be held late morning to early evening at Joannes Park in Green Bay and will include various vendors, panel discussions, educational booths, children's activities and live stage entertainment. This family-inclusive event will be open to the general public. The group is reaching out to various segments of the LGBT and allied community and asking for any assistance that that might be available. They are looking to involve as many non-profits, academic and support groups for the community as possible. They want to make this as inclusive of an event for everyone as possible! Check out their website at www.newpride.org for more information about the event. Call Andrea Schultz at 920.562.3830.

2008 Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership State Conference
October 23 & 24, 2008
Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
Women Moving Forward: Navigating Change
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Archer-Martin, Founder of Educational Management Network
Watch for registration information here: http://www.wwhel.org/

Future Leader Award Program, Mount Mary College Women’s Leadership Institute
• Do you have students who are excited by challenges?
• Who are known on campus for getting the job done?
• Do they volunteer in your community?
• They might even be interested in running for office some day!

…these are women who may have a future in public policy or political leadership.

Applications by Monday, March 31, 2008.
Through its Future Leader Award Program, Mount Mary College Women’s Leadership Institute is offering students an incredible opportunity to meet outstanding leaders, listen to inspiring speakers, and learn public leadership skills through an innovative curriculum.
WHEN & WHERE? NEW LeadershipTM Wisconsin will take place June 4 - 10, 2008 at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
WHAT IS IT? A week-long, residential program designed to educate, empower, and encourage college women to take on public leadership roles. The conference is part of a national network of programs coordinated by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Through interactive workshops and hands-on projects, participants develop leadership skills as they are presented with information about a current national or community issue. NEW LeadershipTM supports women as they practice issue analysis, negotiation, conflict resolution, public speaking and advocacy skills – skills that can be applied in a variety of settings and for multiple purposes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Sophomores or juniors during the 2008-2009 academic year who are interested in kick-starting their careers. A priority of the program will be the inclusion of underserved and underrepresented women from across Wisconsin. This includes women of color, nontraditional-age college women, disadvantaged students, those physically disabled, and students majoring in fields outside political science. Students who demonstrate the following characteristics are especially eligible:
• Interest in civic engagement
• Leadership ability
• Academic distinction
• Enthusiasm
For cost, application deadline and registration process, please visit:
www.mtmary.edu/cawp.htm or to learn more about the program, students can view a video at www.newleadershipwi.com/video/NewLeadershipWI.wmv.
If you have questions, send an email to womenldr@mtmary.edu.

The National Women's Music Festival
Madison, WI - June 19-22
Alliant Energy Center / Convention Center / hotels downtown
http://www.wiaonline.org/
The National Women's Music Festival, otherwise known as NWMF, will be held indoors at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. The Festival is a four-day musical and cultural extravaganza that incorporates all facets of women’s lives. It’s a jam-packed long weekend where choices for things to do range from workshops, concerts, comedy, theatre presentations, dances, a marketplace, newly released films and videos, a live auction, a fine arts exhibit, spirituality series, writer’s series, animal lovers series, and much, much more! Most Festival attendees are women, although men can and do attend. Attendees come from all walks of life and cultures, cutting across ethnic, racial, sexual, age, and ability boundaries. Likewise, festival programming reflects many points of view; a diversity of ideas and topics are explored and discussed in a safe environment. Festival is an environment in which philosophies and politics are open for discussion, not mandated or judged. A variety of housing options are offered to accommodate festival participants Thursday through Saturday nights: hotels rooms, hotel suites with kitchenettes, RV and tent camping are all available. Meals are served in the hotels, as well as at nearby restaurants and from on-site vendors. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian selections are both available. Services available include a wide range of accessibility services with almost all concerts interpreted for the deaf. A complete and exciting childcare program for youngsters 10 and under is offered. Work-exchange of 4-hour work shifts is available for reduced-price registration. This is limited and arrangements must be made prior to the festival. Shuttle service from the airport is offered for people flying in for the festival. Past performers include Betty, Cris Williamson, Kate Clinton, Karen Williams, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Linda Tillery, Jamie Anderson, Holly Near, Lucie Blue Tremblay, the Dance Brigade, Sawagi Taiko, Ferron, Deirdre McCalla, Zrazy, Ember Swift and Margie Adam to just mention a few. Guest speakers have included Geraldine Ferraro, Rita Mae Brown, Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, NPR reporter and writer Margot Adler, Katherine V. Forrest, artist Judy Chicago, Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, Pat Califia, Betty DeGeneres, Anita Hill and Judy Goldsmith. National Women’s Music Festival is produced by Women In the Arts, Inc. a 501-c-3 nonprofit corporation. The 2008 festival will be the 33rd festival which was first produced in 1975 in Champaign, Illinois.

Call for Proposals for 2008-09 OPID and OADD Grant Programs
A call for proposals for two grant programs sponsored by the UW System Office of Academic Affairs: the ongoing Office of Professional and Instructional Development Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grant Program and the new Office of Academic Diversity and Development Grant Program on Closing the Achievement Gap.

The Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Grants (UTLG) for 2008-09,
UTLG proposals are due in the OPID office on April 15, 2008.
Institutional Projects “Going Systemwide,” will be used to bring to the System level successful examples of campus initiatives that foster teaching and learning. The grant is designed to expand the scope of programs that have moved institutions forward with important new strategies for enhancing teaching and focusing on student learning in order to make those programs available across the UW System. The goals for this grant
are as follows:
· To make campus-based projects with proven success easily accessible for System-wide implementation;
· To disseminate good ideas, share best practices, and to build on and sustain projects with demonstrated success;
· To build inter-institutional communities of practice around teaching and learning issues;
· To respond to emerging priorities across the UW System; and
· To continue OPID’s goal of developing a distributed leadership network of faculty development across the UW System.
Grant funding is available for up to $40,000 per project. There are no specific categories but projects MUST build from demonstrably successful programs that are either currently in existence or have had recent success (e.g. there may be examples of effective programs ended because they had only one year of funding). Evidence must be provided to demonstrate a record of success in the project either upon completion or to date. Contact Lisa Kornetsky, Director, OPID, by email at lkornetsky@uwsa.edu or by telephone at 608/263-2722.

The new OADD grant program Closing the Achievement Gap,
Closing the Achievement Gap proposals are due in the OADD office on April 18, 2008, is to develop and support programs that are effective in promoting institutional change to foster access and excellence for historically underrepresented populations. A total of $300,000 will be available for academic year 2008-09 to fund projects in the following categories:

· Start-up Grants for Emerging Needs;
· Grants to Further Implement Existing Initiatives; and
· Evaluation Grants.
For 2008-09, it is expected that 5-6 awards will be made in the range of $10,000 to $75,000 per project. Successful proposals will result in programs that are replicable with explicitly documented activities and evidence-based outcomes. Particular attention will be given to models, programs. Contact Vicki Washington, Interim Assistant Vice President, OADD, by email at vwashington@uwsa.edu or by telephone at 608/262-2275.

Symposium on Cultural Diversity in the Curriculum: Sharing Ideas and Best Practices Across the UW System
Sponsored by UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity
Thurs.-Fri., April 17-18, 2008, at UW-Milwaukee
For more information go here: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/conferences_events/IRE_events.html

"Working From the World Up: Equality's Future"
A New Legal Realism Conference
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project
Dates: March 14-15, 2008
Registration Deadline extended to March 1st
Sponsored by: The University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, and the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society.
Location: The University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference will begin on Friday afternoon and end with a dinner session. Panel sessions will continue all day Saturday, ending around 5:30 p.m. Sessions will take place at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison.
Hosted by Victoria Nourse, Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law (Wisconsin) and L.Q.C. Professor of Law (Emory) vfnourse@wisc.edu and cohosted by Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law and Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University, and the editorial staff of the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society.
Conference Overview: We are at a historic juncture in the progress of race and sex equality in American life, with the election of the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives and the first Presidential race in which female and African-American candidates have a serious chance of capturing the White House. This conference aims to honor the institutions and the people who have theorized sex and race in ways that have helped to change the world, and to forge the future of the study of race and sex equality in the law. In short, it will be an opportunity to reflect on the key concepts of the past, so as to better understand the future.
Twenty-five years ago, the Feminist Legal Theory Project, under the direction of Professor Martha Fineman, helped to bring feminist thought to the forefront of the legal academy. It was (and is) a project born of the world, responding to real lives and needs, reflecting the law and society tradition of reasoning-from-the-world-to-law. From this tradition was born a vibrant scholarship not only on sex equality but also on the "intersection" of race, sex and sexuality, inaugurated by the work of pioneer theorists such as Kimberle Crenshaw and Patricia Williams. The conference will feature a keynote address by Patricia Williams, the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, and panels discussing contemporary issues.
Topics to be explored include the role of realist methods (new and old) and equality; the idea of intersectionality and its present implications; critiques of feminism by theorists of sexuality and sexual orientation; history and social science as methods of revealing intersectionality; and the role of global norms in combating violent sex and race inequalities. The conference is expected to draw participants from around the country. This event should be of interest to students and more advanced scholars in law, women's studies, public policy, sociology, history, and political science.
Conference Program With Link To Registration Form: http://law.wisc.edu/ils/flt25thconfprogram.html

UW System Faculty College
May 27-30
UW-Richland
Sponsored by the Office of Professional and Instructional Development
Application information is available from the Provost's office at each UW institution
Each campus is invited to nominate up to four faculty or teaching academic staff members and at least one alternate. Nominations are due from the campus Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Faculty College provides an annual opportunity for UW System faculty and academic staff to unite in concentrated study and discussion aimed at improving undergraduate teaching and learning. Some 100 participants attend three days of intensive, interdisciplinary seminars on topics related to teaching and learning. Each participant registers for two of the four seminars offered.
Faculty College 2008 Seminars:

1. “What Were They Thinking?! Using Think Alouds to Open Up Hidden Worlds of Student Learning,” by Lendol Calder, Carnegie Scholar in 1999 and associate professor of history at Augustana College, Illinois;

2. “Education for a Sustainable Future: ‘Ecological Thinking’ as a Liberal Art,” by Stephen Woolpert, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Professor of Politics at Saint Mary's College of California;

3. “Teaching for Learning: Rethinking Quality Instruction,” by Greg Valde, Director of the LEARN Center and the Teaching Scholars Program and Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; and

4. “Gathering SoTL Evidence: Methods for Systematic Inquiry into Student Learning,” by Renee A. Meyers, Coordinator of the UW System Leadership Site for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Look for detailed abstracts of the seminars listed above in the Faculty College 2008 brochures that you will be receiving in the mail or on line at: http://www.uwsa.edu/opid/conf/fc_upcoming.htm>

Announcing

2007 was the YEAR OF GIRLS’ STUDIES in FEMINIST COLLECTIONS: A QUARTERLY OF WOMEN'S STUDIES RESOURCES. Every issue published in 2007 reviews up-to-date resources about girls’ lives and concerns from a feminist perspective. Use the special order form at http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications/feminist-coll.html to purchase a full year of girls’ studies reviews published in FEMINIST COLLECTIONS. U.S. orders are $14; outside the U.S. $18. (For a joint subscription to all three publications of the Women’s Studies Librarian’s Office, see http://womenst.library.wisc.edu/publications.)

Read the introduction to the series, by Tracy Wendt Lemaster, Guest Editor, at http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/22280

Here’s a partial list of essays included:
· She’s Come a Long Way: New Foundational Texts for Scholars in Girls’ Studies, by Tracy Wendt Lemaster
· Girlhood, Identity, and Power, by Jessica K. Taft
· Viewing Girlhood in Media’s Mirror, by Amy Pattee
· Gendered Subjectivity and the Female Body: Discovering Agency and Power, by Brenda Boudreau
· Educating the Girl: Learning and Schooling in America, by Rebekah Buchanan
· Girls, Grrrls, Gurls, and the Tools They Use, by Lanette Cadle
· “Othered” Girls: Growing Up Between Two Worlds, by Sarah Hentges
· Disruptive Girlhoods: Books on Aggression in Girls, by Jillian Hernandez
· Great Reads for Young Girls, by Marge Loch-Wouters
· What Adolescent Girls Read, by Elaine O’Quinn
· Reimagining Girlhood: Girls’ Writings and Self-Portrayals, by Sarah Myers
· Mass Marketing and Our Daughters, by Lise Mae Schlosser


Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Publisher, FEMINIST COLLECTIONS, and
Women's Studies Librarian
University of Wisconsin System
430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-5754; pweisbard@library.wisc.edu
http://womenst.library.wisc.edu

The Women & Science Program has an updated web site. Check it out here: http://www.uwosh.edu/wis/ It includes the program’s mission and goals revised to:

Promoting excellence and diversity in STEM education

We envision a future in which education in the STEM disciplines is accessible and attractive to diverse students resulting in STEM fields enriched by diverse practitioners.

The mission of the Women & Science Program is to attract and retain more women and minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by promoting systematic changes in the ways that science and science education are regarded and carried out within the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin community and beyond.
In particular, the program seeks to:

* increase faculty expertise in inclusive and student-centered pedagogy;
* promote science education that includes analysis of the social context in which science is practiced;
* provide role models of women and minority STEM professionals, scholars, and educators;
* promote campus & classroom climates that attract and retain women and minority students in STEM disciplines; and
* foster collaborative communities for UW System STEM educators and students.