Think Big! Broadening Horizons for Women in Engineering and Computer

Science through Global Scholar NetworksDr. Autumn M. Reed,1 Dr. Cristina Pomales,2 Dr. Renetta G. Tull,1 Dr. Patricia Ordóñez,3 Dr. Beatriz Zayas4

1) University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 2) University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez3) University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, 4)Universidad Metropolitana

June 11, 2015

@PR_ADVANCE@Renetta_Tull@patti_ordonez@WEPAN#WEPAN2015#ThinkBigDiversity

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Goal: THINK BIG

Create a paradigm shift for women faculty of color to leverage available opportunities for global

engagement.

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Frame the Problem: The Challenges Poll

Text AUTUMNREED161 to 37607 to join

Identify barriers to global

engagement for women of color

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The Puerto Rico Challenges

A. Underrepresentation of womenB. Hispanic cultural background C. Limited diversity D. Expectations for women and mothersE. Machista society limits access and

equityF. Limited advancement within

institutions and fieldsG. Island mentality with colonial

status

100% Hispanic Females

Small Group Solutions-Think-Pair-Share Activity

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SolutionsSelfCulturalProfessionalWork ClimateSocial Family

Cultural

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Processing: The BIG THINK

The questions needed to solve the problem related to creating a paradigm shift for women faculty of color to leverage

available opportunities for global engagement.

1. What information do we wish we had?2. What information do we have that we wish others had access to?3. What information would help people make more informed decisions? 4. Where are the institutional inefficiencies and how could we visualize the data to make it more actionable?5. How could we make communication more efficient? 6. Finally, what kind of “crowd-sourced” data could be valuable to us and to others?

Assign a note-taker for your group to record the answers.

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Creating “Counter-spaces” - Agility

Mentoring Meet-ups

Networking Symposium M

Conferences & Workshops

Collaborating w/ Other Institutions

Hackathons

10 minute activity:

Think!Discuss!Hack!

HACK a Possible Solution: Women from diverse groups can leverage opportunities for global engagement by ___YOU fill in the blank_____.The Challenge: 1) Post (via twitter or the blog) the best

solution from your group to complete the sentence above.

2) Vote on your favorite solution from other groups (live!)

Mandatory Hashtags: #WEPAN2015 #ThinkBigDiversity

Optional handles: @WEPAN @PR_ADVANCE @UMBC

OPTIONS: 1) Use your twitter handles to answer the

questions, using the hashtags above. 2) Blogger Space (if you don’t have twitter): https://hispanicstemwomen.wordpress.com/think-big/All responses will be captured by @PR_ADVANCE, and the Hack-a-thon Mentors.

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THINK BIG! A Hackathon Example

Hack-a-thon Mentors: @patti_ordonez, @Renetta_Tull

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Action ItemsHost a Hackathon

Ex: PROMISE AGEP SSI - 2015 Hackathon/Diversity in STEM

Ex: SHILAC - Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2015 and Hacking Medicine in the Caribbean

Develop and Implement Training Steps Toward Achieving Advancement and

Recognition of Hispanic Women in STEM

Writing for Advancement Workshop: Promote Readiness for Professional Engagement

Intercultural Communication Training

Career-Life Balance Awareness

Attend International Conferences LACCEI - Dominican Republic, July 2015 WEEF - Florence, Italy, September 2015

Globalize Mentoring Global Engagement Eminent Scholar Mentoring

Program Create Global Mentors - Collaborations

Acknowledgments

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• This project acknowledges the following NSF programs:o ADVANCE Hispanic Women in STEM: Collaborative Research: Framing the Issue: A

NETWORKing Workshop for Hispanic Women in STEM - was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The collaboration is between Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, Maryland. The collaborative NSF/EHR/HRD project grants are: UMET – #1216443 and UMBC – #1216490.

o International Engagement and Broadening Participation in STEM from a Family-Friendly Perspective for Women of Color: National Science Foundation: NSF #1449322, Division of Engineering Education and Centers/Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE), specifically co-funded by the NSF International Science and Engineering Section, the Career Life Balance Initiative and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers Broadening Participation in Engineering Program.

o On-Ramps to Full Professor: The Career-Life Balance Initiative at UMBC, receives support from the National Science Foundation, grant # 1446406.

o The social science research is sponsored by the PROMISE AGEP, NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Human Resource Development (HRD). Current projects are supported by: Collaborative Research: AGEP T: PROMISE AGEP Maryland Transformation # 1309290. Foundational projects were developed and implemented under HRD grant #0202169 "AGEP: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate," HRD grant #0639698 "PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP"; and HRD grant #1111217 "PROMISE Pathways."

• The project also acknowledges units within universities that have facilitated the dialogue, and provided technical support:

o The Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguezo The Office of the Chancellor - UMETo The Office of the Provost - UMBC, VP for Faculty Affairs, ADVANCE @ UMBC, STRIDE

@ UMBCo The Graduate School at UMBC - Graduate Student Development Unito SHILAC.org: Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean &

Hacking Medicine in the Caribbean

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. https://hispanicstemwomen.wordpress.com/think-big/

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