From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Wed 20 Oct 2004 - 16:46:03 EEST
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:40:35 -0400
To: nethappenings@freelists.org
From: Educational CyberPlayGround <admin@edu-cyberpg.com>
Subject: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAREERS
**************************************************************
Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/
**************************************************************
Net Happenings Mailing List
Net Happenings Service
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/Subguidelines.html>
Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Change Email Preferences -
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/NetHappenings.html>
**************************************************************
National Children's Folksong Repository www.edu-cyberpg.com
Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the classroom.
**************************************************************
NSF ANNOUNCES $3.25 MILLION AWARD TO
INCREASE PARTICIPATION BY WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAREERS
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
"Where discoveries begin"
For Immediate Release
Oct. 19, 2004
Media Contacts:
Peter West, (703) 292-7761, <mailto:pwest@nsf.gov>pwest@nsf.gov
Kevin Lee, University of Colorado, Boulder, (303) 492-1874,
<mailto:kevin.lee@colorado.edu>kevin.lee@colorado.edu
NSF ANNOUNCES $3.25 MILLION AWARD TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION BY
WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CAREERS
ARLINGTON, Va.-The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded
$3.25 million to establish the National Center for Women and
Information Technology (NCWIT), a collaborative effort between
universities, industry, government and notfor-profit
organizations led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and
the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
The four-year award is the largest education and workforce award
ever made by NSF's Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE) directorate.
The center has the ambitious 20-year goal of fostering equal
participation for women and men in information technology
careers, both in academia and industry.
"The lack of women in information technology (IT) reduces the
nation's technological workforce, hinders women's economic
advancement, and undermines the creativity and success of the IT
industry," said NSF division director Gregory Andrews. "The CISE
directorate supports projects such as the National Center for
Women and Information Technology to understand why so many women
avoid IT careers and to increase participation by women and other
underrepresented groups."
While the center's overall strategy encompasses the full
education and career pipeline, the NSF award provides financial
support for NCWIT's infrastructure and a research emphasis on
undergraduate and graduate education and faculty careers. Led by
Robert Schnabel and Lucinda Sanders at Colorado and Telle Whitney
of the Anita Borg Institute, the center will coordinate
activities by scientists in seven organizations.
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental
research and education across all fields of science and
engineering, with an annual budget of nearly $5.58 billion.
NSF supports four main research projects at the center.
· At the undergraduate level, researchers will collect,
evaluate
and disseminate effective practices for course curricula
and instruction.
· A community college pipeline project will look at ways
to recruit women from community colleges to four-year
degree programs in computer science and information
technology.
· At the graduate level, researchers will study a group
of computer science graduate students over several years to
understand their experiences, progress and successes.
· The faculty careers project will research the factors that
help or hinder women attain senior leadership positions in
academic departments.
"The spirit of partnership that so many distinguished people and
organizations have brought to the center to address this vital
national issue is truly remarkable," said Schnabel, Colorado's
vice provost for academic and campus technology. "A crucial part
of this is the academic and industry alliances which will
contribute and adapt effective practices and drive change
nationally."
Despite gains in gender equity elsewhere, women dropped from 37
percent of computer science degree holders in 1984 to only 28
percent in 2001, according to national data. And while women
comprised 33 percent of information technology professionals in
1990, that figure was down to 26 percent in 2002. Yet according
to Department of Labor projections, the number of high-skill IT
jobs will increase by 35 percent from 2002 to 2012, double the
growth rate for jobs overall.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology, led by
Executive Director Lucinda Sanders, is comprised of a network of
partner organizations, companies and individuals. In addition to
CU-Boulder and the Anita Borg Institute, the center's hubs
conduct programmatic and research activities for the center: the
Association for Computing Machinery, the Computing Research
Association, the Girl Scouts of the USA, Georgia Institute of
Technology, and the Berkeley and Irvine campuses of the
University of California. NSF, the AT&T Foundation, HP, the
Colorado Institute of Technology and various individuals supplied
planning support for the center. The hub institutions each have
provided significant support for the center.
Founding members of the academic alliance include: Brown
University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University,
Florida State University, Indiana University, Smith College,
Spelman College, Stanford University, Texas A&M University,
University of California San Diego, University of Maryland
Baltimore County, University of Texas El Paso, University of
Washington and University of Wisconsin. Industry alliance
founding members include Apple, Avaya, Bank of America, HP, IBM,
Intel, Microsoft and Sun.
###
NSF PR04-144
NSF Program Officer: Caroline Wardle, 703-292-8950,
<mailto:cwardle@nsf.gov>cwardle@nsf.gov
Principal Investigator: Robert Schnabel, University of Colorado,
Boulder, 303-492-5094, <mailto:bobby@cs.colorado.edu>bobby@cs.colorado.edu
NCWIT Executive Director, Lucinda Sanders, University of
Colorado, Boulder, 303-735-5108,
<mailto:lucinda.sanders@colorado.edu>lucinda.sanders@colorado.edu
The National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency
that supports fundamental research and education across all
fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget of
nearly $5.58 billion. National Science Foundation funds reach
all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and
institutions. Each year, NSF receives about 40,000 competitive
requests for funding, and makes about 11,000 new funding awards.
The National Science Foundation also awards over $200 million in
professional and service contracts yearly.
Receive official National Science Foundation news electronically
through the e-mail delivery system, NSFnews. To subscribe, send
an e-mail message to
<mailto:joinnsfnews@lists.nsf.gov>joinnsfnews@lists.nsf.gov. In the body of
the message, type "subscribe nsfnews" and then type your name.
(Ex.: "subscribe nsfnews John Smith")
Useful National Science Foundation Web Sites:
NSF Home Page: <http://www.nsf.gov>http://www.nsf.gov
News Highlights: <http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa>http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa
Newsroom:
<http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/media/start.htm>http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/media/start.htm
Science Statistics:
<http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm>http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm
Awards Searches:
<http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a6/A6Start.htm>http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a6/A6Start.htm
<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>
EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com
Net Happenings, K12 Newsletters, Network Newsletters
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Community/index.html
FREE EDUCATION VENDOR DIRECTORY LISTING
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Directory/default.asp
HOT LIST OF SCHOOLS ONLINE
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp
Educational CyberPlayGround Services
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/PS/Home_Products.html
<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>~~~~~<>
_______________________________________________
Linux-sohbet mailing list
Linux-sohbet@liste.linux.org.tr
http://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet