CeMENT Workshop for Junior Faculty

CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) has received funding from the National Science Foundation to continue its series of workshops for junior faculty in economics and will hold one at the 2007 meetings of the Eastern Economic Association. This is a mentoring workshop intended to help junior economists overcome the tenure hurdle, with a special focus on the unique challenges that women face at the beginning of their careers.

The workshop at the EEA meetings, along with one at the national (ASSA) meeting in January 2008 and one workshop yet to be scheduled for spring 2008 will be the LAST of the mentoring opportunities associated with this NSF grant. . Regional workshops are aimed at helping junior faculty in institutions where tenure is based on teaching, research and service. National workshops, on the other hand, are designed for faculty whose institutions promote primarily on research and publication.

At the workshop, participants are arranged into small groups based on their teaching/research areas and matched with a senior mentor. The format and curriculum are designed to create and cement relationships among the participants, as well as between the participants and the mentors.

Applications for the workshop at the Eastern meetings are due by October 15, 2006. You can register by clicking on the link below. On that site you will also be able to read participant reactions to previous workshops, and find out more information regarding this great opportunity. The site is: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/CSWEP/mentoring/register.htm

For those of you who may be less familiar with CSWEP, it represents women's points of view in the committee work of the American Economic Association, monitors the progress of women within the profession, and makes an annual report to the AEA on the status of women in economics. The Committee also hosts social events where women economists can meet and exchange information. CSWEP was the moving force behind the establishment of a child-care program at the annual AEA meetings and, with NSF support, organized a successful mentoring program at the national and regional levels in 1998.

The regional workshops are being organized by KimMarie McGoldrick, Department of Economics, Robins School of Business, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.