Improving the Balance

One thing we can do to address this is run more workshops specifically for women in science and engineering, and work harder to recruit new instructors from their attendees. It would be great to do this in partnership with organizations like AWIS and NCWIT, but setting that up will take time, and time costs money. If we're going to ramp up our work in this area, we're going to need to find sponsorship.

Another thing we can do right away is add a section on diversity to the instructor training course to help our instructors avoid common mistakes. We started work on material for this last fall, but didn't complete it. If you have time to help move it forward, please get in touch.