In the College of Technology we have made “good” progress over the last few years with increasing the number of women faculty, staff, and students. However, we need to redouble our efforts and find innovative ideas that will result in “great” progress. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the college and have a number of initiatives underway. Let’s use International Women’s Day as a rallying point for our efforts.  Shown below is some background on International Women’s Day which has a very good summary of the day.

There is a lot of talk these days about the shortage of engineers in this country and the lack of interest in general in the STEM disciplines. The lack of interest in the STEM disciplines is especially acute with women with the notable exception in the field of biology. There are multiple reasons cited for this problem, and the College of Technology is not immune to these challenges.

My next few blogs will be excerpts from a document I created when I interviewed for the position of Dean of the College of Technology.