Background:
IWITTS has been awarded a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Award to fund the
CalWomenTech Project. Through this five-year grant, California community colleges will receive
expert support and technical assistance to help recruit and retain women into technology programs
where they are under-represented.
Four community colleges will be selected via a competitive process to receive free intensive
CalWomenTech training and assistance on recruiting and retaining women in technology programs
in which they are under-represented, during the next 3 years.
Benefits to Your Program:
Tried and true strategies to increase the number of women in your technology programs and retain
them, based on "proven" methods. Our strategies are surefire, easy-to-implement and you can start
to see results the very next semester. See our WomenTech Proven Practices Library to view the research our
work is based on, in addition to our successful track record with community colleges in our national
WomenTech Project.
Recruitment Assistance: We'll develop recruitment posters and flyers (see example on the right)
featuring female role models from your College and we'll develop a CalWomenTech section of your
website - both the website content and design and we'll maintain it (see example on the right).
We'll provide "free" WomenTech training on "how to" recruit and retain women and you'll develop
a detailed plan with a timeline as part of the workshop. We have been providing this training on
a fee basis for over 10 years throughout the US and we've worked in 42 of the 50 states.
You'll receive $2,000 worth of software from our CalWomenTech Learning Library that will enable
you to assist students in developing technology building block skills in areas such as spatial relations and math that will increase their retention in the classroom.
You'll develop a CalwomenTech Leadership team of ten key players that will enable you to showcase
your technology program throughout the College. Leadership team members will receive a stipend of
$500 yearly.
We'll provide on-site WomenTech training and technical assistance and on-line webinars, podcasts,
and phone trainings on specialty topic areas such as "how to" develop curriculum examples that appeal
to female learning style and interests or how spatial reasoning software has increased retention of
female engineering students. Your College will receive stipends for adjunct faculty to participate
as an incentive.
Your female students will have access to our online community of womentechworld.org and we'll focus
on your program's career areas. WomenTechWorld.Org includes e-mentoring, e-jobs job board and
WomenTechTalk email listserv with other 500 members.
Applications are due back November 19, '07.
Apply Now Via our Online Application!
Fill out our brief Interest Survey Now!
What we are looking for in our Community College Sites:
- A technology program in an area women are under represented that has a strong connection to
employers and local labor market demand. Our focus is terminal associate degrees or certificates.
Programs in new emerging industries with jobs that are high skill and high wage are strongly
encouraged to apply.
- A college that is willing to commit to engaging faculty and adjuncts in training in real-time
and on-line.
- A college that will implement the Project's core recruitment and retention strategies which are
described on our Website in detail - see CalWomenTech Project on www.iwitts.com
- A college that will fund Leadership Team members travel to come to one two-day meeting
in the Bay Area to meet jointly with the other community colleges in the Project, to share
strategies and receive joint training.
Correction: Please note that we've made a revision to our Application. Applicants will only have to provide funds for the Leadership Team to attend the first annual meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area and all subsequent travel arrangements for these annual meetings will be funded by grant dollars.
Previous grant management experience is a plus.
IWITTS Brings National Expertise To Your Tech Program:
The CalWomenTech Project is IWITTS's second grant working with community colleges to increase
the number of women in technology, and our third National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
Other successful projects have included The Cisco Gender Initiative and we have worked extensively
nationally with NSF Advanced Technology Education Centers in Community Colleges. We have been
conducting WomenTech Training nationally on a fee basis for over ten years. Click Here for More Information on Project Expertise
Project Timeline:
We are 1.5 years into a 5-year Project that will end in April 2011.
Applications for our 2nd set of four community college sites are due back to IWITTS by November 19, 2007.
The second set of community college sites will be selected by December 10, 2007. We will select four more colleges.
The first CalWomenTech training with leadership team members will be located at the College in February 2008.
Current CalWomenTech Sites:
The first four CalWomenTech community colleges are:
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City College of San Francisco Computer Networking and Information Technology Program, with a focus on the new Digital Home Integration Technology certification
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San Diego Mesa College's Geographic Information Systems program
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Caņada College's new 3-D Animation and Video Game Art Program
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El Camino College's Air Conditioning Refrigeration program
Questions about the application?
Contact Donna Milgram, Executive Director at,
calwomentech at iwitts.com or call (510) 749-0200 ext. 101
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The CalWomenTech Project is Funded by The Program for Research on Gender in Science and Engineering from The National Science Foundation - Grant no. 0533564
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