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Agenda
(Subject to change)

Thursday, January 15, 2004
Conference Schedule

7:30am-
8:30am
  Continental Breakfast
8:30am-
8:45am
  Welcome and Introduction
Presenters:
Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Office, AAAS
Shirley Jackson, AAAS President-Elect and President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
8:45am-
10:15am
  Setting the Stage: A Retrospective on the Policy Climate and Its
Impact on Science, Mathematics and Engineering Diversity
Presenters:

John Powell, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University
Shirley Malcom, Head, Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, AAAS
Daryl Chubin, Senior Vice President, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
10:15am-
11:45am
 

The Perspective from the Universities
Presenter:

Charles M. Vest, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: Larry Rudolph, General Counsel, National Science Foundation
Respondent Panel:
William (Brit) Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland
Shirley Jackson, AAAS President-Elect and President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

12:00pm-
1:30pm
  Lunch
1:45pm-
3:15pm
The Perspective from Government Programs
Presenter:
Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Moderator: Jamie Keith, Senior Counsel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent Panel: Raynard Kington, Director, Office of Behavioral
and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health
Peter Faletra, Program Director for Workforce Diversity, Office of Science, Department of Energy
3:30pm-
4:30pm
  The Perspective from Industry
Moderator: Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness
Panel: Wayne C. Johnson, Executive Director, University Relations Worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Company
Angela Knight, Director, Diversity, Staffing and Outreach, Merck
Cathleen Barton, U.S. Education Manager, Intel Corporation
4:30pm-
5:15pm
  Sorting and Synthesizing Perspectives: Themes for Thursday's
Workshop Sessions
Presenter:

Lynn Walker Huntley, President, Southern Education Foundation
5:15pm-
7:00pm
  Reception
7:00pm Note: By day's end we need an estimate of how many are planning to
attend the workshop

Friday, January 16, 2003
Workshop Schedule

8:30am   Continental Breakfast
9:00am-
9:30am
  Welcome and Workshop Organization
A facilitator and a resource person will be assigned in advance to each
breakout. Number and focus of breakouts may be adjusted depending on
what emerges from the Conference and how many decide to participate in
the Workshops
9:30am-
12:00pm
 

Workshops meet in Breakout Rooms (proposed themes)

  • Collaboration
  • Program Guidelines Research/Building the Case
  • K-12 Outreach
  • Financial Targeting
  • Graduate and Professional School Admissions
  • Faculty Recruitment and Hiring and Institutional Transformation

Breakout Group Leaders

  • Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, University of Illinois
  • Sue Rosser, Dean of the Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Karl Pister, Chancellor Emeritus, University of California at Santa Cruz and Chair of the National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce
  • Jim Stith, Director of Physics Programs, American Institute of Physics
  • Dr. Claiborne Smith, President, Delaware Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education

12:00pm-
1:00pm
  Working Lunch in Breakout Rooms
1:00pm-
3:00pm
  Reports from the Breakouts
3:00pm-3:30pm   Wrap Up

 

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