Greetings from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!
Please encourage your faculty, administrators and staff to register
for the upcoming 2011 Equity Conference. The Theme of the
Conference is-- The Changing Face of America: Helping Michigan
Compete.
The schedule and bios for the featured speakers are on the www.diversity.mtu.edu
website. There are a variety of keynote presentations and sessions
that will provide new information, strategies, and professional
development for both faculty and staff. Faculty who are submitting
NSF and NIH proposals, in particular, should consider attending
several of the sessions.
Sample topics include the Imposter Syndrome; recruiting and
retaining graduate and undergraduate students; a corporate panel on
successful strategies and the value of diverse employees;
mentoring; and a legal presentation on the impact of Proposition 2
on outreach to underrepresented groups. A special session on Monday
evening directed at students, but helpful to faculty and staff who
advise potential graduate students, interested in preparing for the
GRA will be presented by Dr. Joseph Brown from the Stanford
University graduate school.
Register at www,diversity.mtu.edu. Bus transportation is
available.
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Chris S. Anderson
Special Assistant to the President
Institutional Diversity
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931
Telephone: 906/487-2474
Fax: 906/487-3101
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