The University of Colorado Women's Symposium will take place March 2, 2007, 8:30-4:30 on the Downtown Denver Campus.
The conference will begin with continental breakfast from 8:30-9am, followed by a plenary address, breakout sessions, a luncheon featuring our Elizabeth Gee Memorial Award winners, and breakout sessions in the afternoon.
Our plenary speaker Pamela Laird (Department of History, UCDHSC) will speak on women and networking, drawing from her recent prizewinning book, PULL: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin (Harvard University Press, 2006).
The Symposium sessions include panels on:
--Mentoring
--Empowerment for Women
--Dealing with Difficult People
--Small Grant Management in the Health and Behavioral Sciences
--Women and Shared Governance
--Publishing
--Women and Administration
--Teaching and Tenure
--Non Tenure-Track Faculty
--the Tenure Track in Science and Engineering
--Progress for Women in Higher Ed
--Negotiating Students' Sense of Entitlement