Another CCOFFE workshop has been completed. Susan Pozo with the help of Marianne Ferber (professor emerita, University of Illinois), Beth Allen (Curtis Carlson Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota) and Jean Kimmel (senior economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute), conducted a very successful workshop at the Midwest meetings, March 21-22, in Chicago. The Easterns, Western and Southern CCOFFE workshops are being planned. Contact your regional representative for further details.
On the next page, we have printed a few reflections from 1998 CCOFFE Workshop facilitators. These women were crucial to the functioning of each of the CCOFFE teams. They assisted the senior women when necessary and made sure that each group stayed on task.
Next issue we want to print any comments that participants from either the 1998 AEA or Midwest CCOFFE workshops may have. There will be a reunion of CCOFFE participants at the upcoming AEA meetings from 3 pm to 5 pm on January 2, 1999, in New York. So when you get your registration forms, come a day early to catch up with other workshop participants, team leaders and facilitors.
We will also be awarding two prizes this year. The Elaine Bennett Prize and the Carolyn Shaw Bell Research Award. If you would like to nominate someone for either prize, please do not hesitate to do so. (Information can be found on the CSWEP Web Site under Upcoming Events.)
We are also establishing a closed list for paid CSWEP associates. You will be the first to have information about job openings, grant opportunities and other timely announcements.
The Southern NSF/ CSWEP CCOFFE Workshop is tentatively scheduled for November 6 and 7 at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. If you are interested in more information, please contact:
An NSF/CSWEP Workshop will be held in Boston during the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, March 12-14, 1999.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring senior women economists together with junior female economists to form teams to improve their grant, research paper writing and other professional skills. The workshop will have informational and work sessions. In these sessions, participants will have time to work on a grant/research paper project with the help and guidance of a senior woman economist and the other members of their team. There will also be sessions devoted to networking, life-balancing and teaching issues.
The exact dates and times of the workshop are yet to be determined, but it will probably run for a day and a half at the end of the EEA meetings. Participants should ideally be untenured professors with tenure-track appointments.
If you are interested in this workshop or know of an untenured female professor who could benefit from this mentoring workshop, please contact either:
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