Build community in a friendly atmosphere with other women scientists and engineers while participating in informal dialogue and exploration of new ideas and reducing isolation. Lehigh ADVANCE will host LU-WISE Luncheons monthly, throughout the academic year. Women STEM faculty, adjuncts, professors of practice, and post-doctoral researchers are invited to attend. Post-docs, Graduate Students, and undergraduate students in STEM seeking to network should look for the Student WISE group.
2020-2021 Schedule: to be Announced
August 6, 2020 Idea Cafe- This session yielded the following document (request permission to access the file). Major themes are listed below, and they will inform the coming year's programming:
- Anti-Racism in STEM
- addressing and surviving the impacts of COVID-19 on faculty careers and evaluation
- caregiving challenges worsened by COVID-19
- Ideas to cultivate and sustain community across different (include not limited to)
- give/get
- writing accountabilty
- casual LU-WISE cafe socials
- keep current on university policies (ex: new Harassment & Discrimination Policy) while championing more equitable policies (regarding service and D&I work)
- mentoring of students while remote & mentoring for underrepresented students,
- leadership development
- support and community for POPs, lecturers, and adjuncts
- addressing interdisciplinarity and collaboration inequities
- engaging more men in advancing equity and inclusion
August 13- Caregiving, Work, Covid
August 20- LU-WISE Meet with Jackie Krasas, Deputy Provost Faculty Affairs
September 24: LU-WISE Remote Mentoring of Students
October 22: Morning Meet with the Provost
October 22: LU-WISE: Give-Get
2019-2020 Schedule:
LU-WISE Monthly Lunches, 12-1:30p
- August 27, UC 306: Welcome 2019-2020, RSVP with this link by August 21
- September 19, UC308:B Allies & Advocates RSVP with this link by September 13
- October 18, UC306, Self-Promotion: Statement/Biosketch Swap with Dr. Kate Bullard, RSVP with this link by October 14
- November 14, UC306, Faculty Senate
- December 4, Dr. Jenna Carpenter, inaugural dean of Campbell University College of Engineering- Breakfast for STEM women, lunch workshop
- December 10 UC306, LGBTQ Perspectives and Family Building Policies
- January 22, UC306, Mentoring Students in the lab
- February 28, WI351, , Dr. Whitney Witt, inaugural dean of Lehigh's College of Health
- March 19, ST102, TBD
- April 22, UC306,TBD
Other events to look for include:
- Collaborative Panels, Speakers
- Productivity Support (formal and informal for writing and grant making)
- If interest, a leadership series in collaboration with CGE
ADVANCE is not about "fixing the women" but about transforming the entirety of the institution so that both women and men faculty can thrive.
