Background Data/Reading

Background Data.  Reading in the Ceci and Williams text book will refer to data.  These two pdf-formatted slide presentations from AAUW present some of the background data.  These two slide presentations are required reading for the second class, but we will be referring to them often during the entire semester.

Why So Few:  Breaking the Barriers for Women and Girls  (AAUW):  why-so-few-Women-in-Science-Technology-Engineering-and-Mathematic-powerpoint-presentation-long

(You can download the full presentation here in Powerpoint format, so that you can see the slide notes and details:  http://www.aauw.org/research/why-so-few/)

Solving the Equation (AAUW): solving-the-equation-presentation-nsa

(You can download the full presentation here in Powerpoint format, so that you can see the slide notes and details:  http://www.aauw.org/research/solving-the-equation/)

 

Background reading not from the books.

What ‘Learning How to Think’ Really Mean, Chronicle Higher Ed, https://shar.es/1qaShP

College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. Wash Post http://wpo.st/hEqM0

Anatomy of a Good Blog Post (http://www.artofblog.com/the-anatomy-of-a-good-blog-post/)

Full text of Larry Summers comments, Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce, at NBER conference, January 14, 2015:  http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.php