The Public Opinion reports on a project in south-central Pennsylvania with the goal of drawing more women to teach college-level math, science and technology.
Among the goals of the four-year project is to determine what the work climate is like for women and minority STEM faculty in Central Pennsylvania higher education institutions.
"We hope to be able to take (our assessment) information and turn that into useful programs to hopefully recruit women into the STEM fields in central PA but also to retain them in those fields." said Dr. Alice Armstrong, a co-principal investigator for the project and assistant professor of computer science at Shippensburg.
A mentorship program and a professional network for women and minority STEM faculty are some of the initiatives that the group is planning, according to Dr. Kate McGivney, principal investigator for the project and a Shippensburg professor of mathematics.
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