Annual Mini-Conference

The First Annual Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Mini-Conference will take place on May 9 and 10, 2002 at the Marietta Conference Center and Resort (MCCR) in Marietta, Georgia. Over 225 members of the Georgia Tech community have been invited to the two-day event, including every tenure-track academic woman faculty member; all deans, associate deans and school chairs; select senior male faculty members from each college; and other invited guests.

The theme for this first mini-conference is "Enhancing Faculty Success and Institutional Transformation at Georgia Tech." Toward this end, presentations and breakout sessions on the following topics are included on the agenda:

- Negotiating the Tenure & Promotion Process
- Balancing Family & Work
- Post-Tenure Career Advancement
- Infrastructure & Resources
- Faculty Mentoring
- Faculty Community Development & Collaboration

Jean-Lou Chameau, Provost and ADVANCE Principal Investigator will give opening and closing remarks, as well as a talk on his perspectives as the principal investigator of the program. In addition, the three co-principal investigators, April S. Brown, Sue V. Rosser and Mary Frank Fox, will talk about the ADVANCE Program at Georgia Tech and nationally, and the meaning of institutional transformation.

The keynote address will be given by Virginia Valian, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College-CUNY; author of "Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women," (MIT Press, 1998); and the Hunter College ADVANCE Program Principal Investigator.

For more information, please see the "Schedule and Agenda," or contact Ruth Hardy at ruth.hardy@carnegie.gatech.edu. For information about and directions to MCCR, please go to http://www.mariettaresort.com/.