Best Practices from the WomenTech Project

A Step-by-Step Guide to Winning Strategies

"Best Practices from the WomenTech Project" shows you winning strategies for recruiting and retaining women into your school's technology program.

Based on best practices culled from the three-year National Science Foundation WomenTech Project, this information-packed CD will help you develop a successful blueprint for boosting your school or program's recruitment and retention of women.

Reviews

"We take great pride in recruiting and retaining women in our technology programs here at CCSN. In fact, we've already successfully implemented many of the strategies we learned in your workshop two years ago. But the ideas and examples in your new CD show us we can go much further -- I can't wait to share this valuable resource with our faculty and staff!"

~ Warren Hioki, Associate Dean, Community College of Southern Nevada

"The "Best Practices" CD is GREAT!!!! I especially liked the Free Press Coverage section because it provided valuable insights -- and actual examples -- of how I can get the exposure we need for our own high school technology programs. You did a great job pulling this all together!"

~ Joanne Trombley, Technology Education Teacher, West Chester Area School District, West Chester, PA, and President, Technology Education Association of Pennsylvania

Content Highlights

Best Practices from the WomenTech Project features tried and true tactics used successfully at three demonstration sites -- Community College of Rhode Island, North Harris Community College District in Houston and the College of Alameda in California.

Each of the CD's five sections -- Recruitment, Retention, Employers, Institutionalization and Institutional Assessment -- include invaluable how-to advice, real-life examples and sample materials you can easily tailor to fit your own school or program's needs. Content highlights include:

• A rich menu of recruitment strategies, along with more than fifty examples of recruitment brochures, flyers, agendas, news articles, webpages and college catalogs.
• Real examples of press coverage for women in technology events -- plus, tips and tools for getting free coverage for your own school.
• Simple ways to leverage your school's internal media to promote women in technology, with examples of how it's been done.
• Video footage and photos of a Women in Technology Career Expo attended by over 100 women and help with developing your own.
• How to use high school recruitment strategies to ensure you'll attract more women to tech programs.
• Useful tools to help students bridge the digital divide, including a bibliography and syllabus to help you develop a tech-readiness course.
• Powerful retention strategies that help women in technology feel less alone, including clubs, mentoring, websites, online discussion boards and e-mail newsletters.
• Pointers on integrating your efforts to get and keep women in technology into the fabric of your school.
• A handy checklist to assess your school's progress.

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