On Wednesday, uOttawa WISE had the latest talks in our Inspiring Women series. As has happened every time so far, I think this is the best yet. How do we top it in February? (OK I have a sneak preview of what will be happening in February, and that's going to be awesome too). Our speakers ...
From "A Rant About Women" by the awesome Clay Shirky (emphasis mine). And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing ...
We're having an event at WISE next week, we were hoping to have someone from SASS to come and give some advice on time management. But SASS is never open, and now we have something much better. But when I was panicking for a speaker, thinking about maybe asking another student to speak I started to ...
Fascinating post today in CopyBlogger - Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants. It's a female writer outing herself; she's been writing under a male pseudonym for the last three years. She'd tried under her real name, but started working under a second name because she didn't want her own name to be associated with a ...
Yesterday I wrote a post about something that's really been frustrating me - the fact that WISE may well run out of money in January. I wondered if it was too negative, and I reread it several times and debated about whether to post it... and eventually decided to. Here's the thing - I can't not ...
Disclaimer: don't take any advice from me. I'm known for giving terrible advice, particularly when it comes to relationships. Also, don't let me set you up. It invariably ends in disaster. WISE has enough money to last through January, I think. Then we'll have to work something out, or stop. I'm not down with stopping, I'll work ...
This was discussed at the WECS meeting this week, there's a new attention to it as the number of women enrolled in undergraduate programs from a high of 20% to 17%. See the full report here. Recommendations are as follows: Raise the profile and improve the image of the profession. Explore how engineering curriculum and its delivery ...
I don't know what to think anymore. Too much information from all sides, some positive, some not so much. Today in the space of 10 minutes I came across these two things, one positive for equality - the other, not so much (although the video is charming). Positive - Marcus Buckingham writing in the HuffPost - ...
There was an article in the Ottawa Citizen the other day about international students. Apparently at Carleton, 1 in 5 graduate students is an international. Of course, this averages across all subjects - my experience is that in Computer Science (and likely the rest of Science and Engineering) the ratio is higher. When I first ...
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