WEPAN - Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network - has launched a new, updated website. Work on the website will continue through at least March 2006 but many new features are already available. You can find various publications on the WEPAN site. Some you pay for, some are free. Among the free ones, let me draw your attention to this one that focuses on retention, by Pat Campbell, Eric Jolly, and Lesley Perlman. It offers a very astute and fresh look at a complex issue. The attention to race, and not just gender, makes this article particularly useful and informative.
If you are a member, you will also have access to WEPAN's Data and Statistics section. There you will find fabulous tables, on enrollment, degrees, salaries, and the workforce. The enrollment and degree data is presented by gender and race, and includes information on foreign nationals. It's also offered for total engineering enrollment/degrees, and by engineering discipline. Good stuff - so if you aren't a member, you should join, just for access to this data alone! Thanks to the Commission for Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST) who provide this data to WEPAN.
If your university does not have an institutional membership - let them know they are behind the times and need to catch up by joining WEPAN! Individual memberships are just $80, so there's no reason you can't take advantage yourself if your institution insists on steadfastly maintaining its pathetically inadequate approach to dealing with access and climate issues.
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