Educating                  Women for the New Millennium: From Childhood to Adulthood March 31-April 1, 2000 Indiana University South Bend 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, Indiana A s we enter the new millenium, the IUSB and Michiana communities collectively will take time to explore our progress in educating women and girls. We know from development efforts worldwide that the most effective route to improving a society's standard of living is to educate its women. While we have made great strides in the United States, we still struggle to have our girls finish school, to attract them into mathematics, science, and technology courses, and to recruit them into careers and disciplines traditionally seen as male-dominated. We need to identify the critical issues that continue to affect us, and work together to shape a local and regional agenda for the education of women and girls that addresses the diversity among women as it also provides for full equity To that end, IUSB is sponsoring a conference designed to bring campus and community together to explore not only what we have learned about educating women and girls but to consider how that knowledge has reshaped how we approach all forms of education (preschool through university) and all students. In the process of rethinking women's education, professional educators have learned a great deal about the different learning styles of all students. Classrooms are incredibly diverse settings--in terms of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Only by taking that diversity into account can we frame educational strategies that promote the success of all students rather than a favored few. Keynote Speaker:           Faith Ringgold 10:00 AM Saturday, April 1 Room N158, Northside Hall, IUSB Faith Ringgold is best known for her painted story quilts -- art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA and worldwide and is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has received numerous awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and eleven honorary doctorates. She is professor of art at the University of California San Diego. For more information about Ms. Ringgold, explore her website at: http://www.faithringgold.com/ FREE ADMISSION but seating is limited. Please register in advance using the registration form. Conference Sponsors: Indiana University South Bend Chancellor Kenneth L. Perrin Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences Women's Studies Program Division of Education Division of the Arts School of Nursing and Health Professions Alumni Affairs Affirmative Action School of Public and Environmental Affairs Schurz Library Division of Business and Economics Office of Campus Diversity IUSB Alumni Association Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Council Office of Student Life University of Notre Dame Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts College of Arts and Letters Saint Mary's College Art Department Education Department Women's Studies Program Center for Academic Innovation The Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame Junior League of South Bend Indiana Humanities Council Conference Committee Members: Shirley Perrin, honorary chair Rebecca Torstrick, chair, assistant professor, Anthropology, IUSB Roseanne Cordell, associate librarian, head of reference, IUSB Rhonda DeLong, assistant professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, IUSB Bettye Green, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Dan Holm, assistant professor, Elementary Education, IUSB Beth Kern, assistant professor, Accounting, IUSB Karen Maes, student, IUSB Joann Phillips, director of Alumni Affairs, IUSB Cynthia Sofhauser, assistant professor, Nursing, IUSB Rita Vega, student, IUSB Cindy Verduce, Junior League of South Bend Ben Withers, assistant professor, Fine Arts, IUSB Nanci Yokom, director of Dental Education, IUSB All inquiries and correspondence should be mailed to: Dr. Rebecca Torstrick Department of Sociology IUSB, P.O. Box 7111, South Bend, IN 46634-7111 (574) 520-5534 (off); 520- 5031 (fax)    E-mail: rtorstri@iusb.edu Back to top of page ver 01/08/00

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