Expert Seminar Series: Leading Trends in Human Resources
Build on your years of human resources experience by gaining new leadership skills to navigate the ongoing complexities of organizational development. In this fully online program, you will learn how to employ cutting-edge best practices to secure and retain top talent, address management shifts in globally distributed and remote workforces, and competently use AI in the workplace.
How Diverse Teams Produce Better Outcomes
As a cognitive scientist, I am constantly presented with puzzles of the mind – how does anxiety affect how we think? What classroom environments are most conducive to learning? To tackle these questions, my research team and I generate hypotheses and figure out how to test them.
iSchool Informatics program helps to narrow tech gender gap
When a BBC interviewer recently asked a group of high-school girls if they’d be comfortable working in technology, they answered adamantly, unanimously: “No.” Commented one: “It’s not really a woman’s field.” Statistically speaking, that statement is true. It should be a woman’s field. It used to be a woman’s field.
Inclusive Scientific Meetings – 500 Women Scientists
Scientific meetings can be invigorating, promote the exchange of ideas, foster new collaborations, and provide opportunities to reconnect with existing colleagues. They form an essential part of the connective tissue for the global scientific enterprise. Scientists rely on them to develop networks and knowledge that are necessary to build a career in science.
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Feature Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? Credit… Joseph C. Towler, Jr. As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s, Mary Allen Wilkes had no plans to become a software pioneer – she dreamed of being a litigator.
Recruit and Retain Strategically
Extension Services recommends a strategic, sustainable approach for attracting and retaining women that focuses on revising educational systems for an inclusive experience for all students, as opposed to changing the students to fit these systems. Explore the components of an effective strategic plan and find useful NCWIT resources by clicking on the model or by viewing the table below.
