Says everyone around me. Well, yes and no. Mostly “no” right now because I still have the bulk of my thesis ahead of me. I may be finishing in May 2016, but there is a lot of work to be done between now and then. I just wish people would stop asking.
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link: LAtiNiTY
Scholarship Applications Deadline: August 1, 2015
Date: November 9-10, 2015
Location: Santiago, Chile
LAtINiTY is a two-day conference, where participants will have the opportunity to listen to women leaders from the region and discuss gender issues in computing and technology. This is the first time an event of this nature (and size) is being hosted in Latin America. As such, it is a unique opportunity to have access to STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students, researchers, professors and professionals.
This event is sponsored, among others, by Anita Borg Institute, organizer of Grace Hopper and other regional events Worldwide.
The presentations are going to be organized in three tracks:
* Academic track – talks about a full spectrum of research topics, from core computer science to applications
* Industry track – sessions about technical work in industry, where speakers present novel projects or technologies that they have helped develop
* Society track – presentation of studies about the situation of women in the area, and showcase of work done during the past year to promote the participation of women in computing in Latin America
In parallel, the event will be running two competitions:
* Entrepreneurship track, where participants will get the opportunity to springboard application ideas, which will be judged by collaborators from our industrial sponsors.
* Hackathon, where students can team up to work on mocking up tech solutions to problems that affect Latin American women.
This event, organized by the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile, the School of Computing Engineering of Universidad Mayor and Latinas in Computing, is going to be held on November 9 and 10, 2015 in Santiago de Chile.
You can find more information in our website: http://www.latinity.info and contact us here:
Twitter: @latinityconf
Email: latinity@latinity.info
LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/19PQhF2
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1J1wlf2
Call for participation: http://www.latinity.info/call-for-participation/ for all tracks
Important Dates: http://www.latinity.info/important-dates/
flyer: Brief-Latinity-Chile2015-EN
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The five facets of trust—benevolence, honesty, openness, reliability, and competence…demonstrate the importance of trust to building successful schools. It follows, then, that the absence of trust impedes effectiveness and progress. If trust breaks down among any constituency, it can spread like a cancer by eroding academic performance and ultimately undermining the tenure of the instructional leader. In this day and age, no leader can long survive the demise of trust.
– Megan Tschannen-Moran, Professor and Chief Academic Officer of the Center for School Transformation at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia
The problem in the Campus Chasm is that we advertise a wrong image and standard, setting up perspective of the work done in colleges to prepare students, when at the end, the reality ends up being another one. When it comes down to having to indicate the issue that is causing student to not receive a proper education, we need to step back and look at the big picture, who is really responsible for it.
As a student mentioned in the article, “College is about more than just classroom assignments or activities outside of class.” This quote has a lot of truth in it; as the student stated, it was not something he really analyzed, but something he simply heard.
The solution is simple, lets analyze the situation and lets truly educate our students, provide the necessary tools to be critical thinkers instead of followers or imitators. There has to be enough and strong expectations from students in order for college to truly get them ready for the real world once they graduate. It is a collaborative responsibility to be able to make a difference. Working together with the same passion and motivation to educate our future generations.
Everyone dreams of being the President, King, Queen, or even just the boss at work. Everyone has their own vision of what (insert country/workplace/arena of your choice) should look like. Unfortunately, most of us won’t get to achieve that dream. […]
In so many words, campus chasm is academic affairs vs. student affairs.
Two major houses in the land of colleges and universities but the issue is they do not seem to work well together. One would think that they understand their role in the business of higher education, but those two affairs continue to separate themselves from each other. On one side, academic affairs points to student affairs and says: College is about learning. From the other side of campus, student affairs points to academic affairs and says: College is about development. The answer to make all this blame game go away is: Collaboration. In an article titled Campus Chasm, author Gwen Dungy writes, “It’s time to move beyond talking, accept responsibility, and take action.” The time for student affairs to create relationships with their faculty and academic affairs to learn about their students outside of the classroom. Then we can all focus on the real subject at hand: the students.
Take a look at the article to read more about campus chasm: https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/12/23/essay-lack-understanding-between-academic-and-student-affairs
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