UM Links
The following are links to organizations, resources and reports related to gender and race, that are available at UM.
ORGANIZATIONS
The Faculty Senate committee on Women and Minorities
current membership and links to annual reports from 2004 to 2008
Faculty senate legislation related to Women and Minorities Committee Report, 2007
annual report, 2003-2004
annual report, 2002-2003
annual report, 2000-2001
The Self-Study Committee on Women and Minority Affairs, co-chaired by Sheri Keitz (Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development) and Astrid Mack (Associate Dean for Minority Affairs and Professor) is charged with analyzing gender and racial/ethnic issues as they pertain to medical students and to faculty, particularly: Describing institutional goals for gender, racial, cultural, and economic diversity of medical students and faculty. Assessing the achievement of institutional goals. Evaluating recruitment and support programs and professional role models in light of the school's diversity goals.
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is a national organization of both female and male, student and professional members. The purpose is to encourage students to pursue a degree in engineering, to encourage professional engineers to further their education, and to increase the numbers and promote the cause of women in the engineering profession. Activities include high school visits, high school outreach days, guest speakers encouraging students to visit the University of Miami , and giving tours of the College of Engineering.
UM's Women's Commission is concerned with reviewing policies, procedures and attitudes that affect the status of women at the University, and with recommending progressive change.
History of the Women's Commission
Awards and achievements
Leadership
Take our daughters and sons to work
Listserve archive
Join listserve
UM's Program in Women's and Gender Studies, led by Director Traci Arden, seeks to encourage the rigorous investigation of gender as a significant issue in all areas of human experience. The core objective is to foster the examination, open discussion, and lively debate of gender issues among faculty and students from all fields of study, enriching the undergraduate curriculum and the university's academic mission through greater communication across disciplines and colleges. This program hosts a speaker series, Women's International Film Festival as well as a Dinner and a Movie Series.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Miami promotes and sustains research and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean. The CLAS is a forum for the UM community with shared regional interests, fostering a strong academic network of faculty and students and providing an institutional framework to obtain research grants and other funding. The CLAS hosts lectures, workshops, and conferences and works with other universities and consular offices to build excellence in teaching, research, and community outreach.
The University of Miami Postdoctoral Programs Office This office offers a series of intensive workshops including lectures, discussions, readings, written exercises, and practical experiences to enhance professional development for postdoctoral associates and graduate students from all UM campuses. Workshops enhance skills in scientific writing for publication of research articles, obtaining funding, making effective oral presentations, and teaching and mentoring the next generation. Every year trainers from the National Center for Biotechnology Information conduct workshops. Faculty mentors and their postdocs are encouraged to create a Postdoctoral Compact and an Individual Development Plan. The Compact establishes joint expectations between the postdoctoral fellow and the mentor. This Compact should normally be established during the hiring process and signed by both the mentor and trainee at the time of hire. The Individual Development Plan provides a planning process that identifies professional development needs and career objectives and serves also as a communication tool between trainees and their mentors.
STUDENT ORIENTED ORGANIZATIONS
Hispanic alliance: Faculty/administrator/staff group comprised of Hispanics to help the University's Hispanic students.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). The purpose of SHPE is to unite the Hispanic students at the College of Engineering (COE), which make up approximately 30% of the total COE population. SHPE is the source of quality Hispanic engineers and technical talent. The society strives to achieve educational excellence at the pre- college and collegiate levels, and broaden economic opportunity and social awareness.
UM academic resource center, faculty support workshops and seminars: contact the ARC for presentation dates and location at (305) 284 -2800
RESOURCES ONLINE AND IN THE UM LIBRARY
Resources Supporting SEEDS: Scientists & Engineers Supporting Diversity Success. This guide presents selected resources supporting the SEEDS program which are available through the University of Miami Libraries.
A Women's & Gender Studies Guide presents selected electronic resources available through the University of Miami Libraries and open access websites.
Internet Listings for Women's Health, Louis Calder Memorial Library
CAREER RESOURCES
UM academic resource center, faculty support workshops and seminars: contact the ARC for presentation dates and location at (305) 284 -2800
Write winning grants. Yearly Seminar through UM You Learn: Dr. Stephen Russell of Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops conducts the workshop. Dr. Russell has held grant support from the National Institutes of Health as a principal investigator since the early 1970's, including individual, group, center and training grants. Last was Feb 18, 2009
REPORTS
Women's Task force on Women and Minorities, convened by the Provost in Fall 1999, at the request of the Faculty Senate Committee on Women and Minorities.
Gender Issues in The Sixties, List of selective events
HEALTH RELATED
The Institute for Women's Health, Miller Medical School; Web site provides information and resources on women's health.
Portrait of Women and Girls in Greater Miami: Health data report
Project DYNA at UM School of Nursing and Health Studies explores minority health issues
Research on Hispanic Women's Health supported by federal funding to the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health
