Dear EdEquity members:
This week resource list has some interesting topics especially the
resources on Arabs and Arab-Americans to think about and discuss with your
students, colleagues and general audience.
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CONFERENCES:
The Women's Studies Program at Iowa State University will host a
conference aimed to bring together women's studies scholars and others
doing research
on women in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology (SMET) and SMET
graduate students and faculty. Funded by the National Science Foundation,
the objectives of the conference are to:
1.exchange relevant research findings on barriers to graduate and
early faculty women's full participation in SMET;
2. develop strategies and action plans aimed at retaining women
graduate students and faculty in SMET.
Please send submissions of one-page, 250-word abstracts for papers, panels
or roundtables. Deadlines: Abstracts January 15, 2002 (Notification of
acceptance February 28, 2002); Completed papers due June 30, 2002.
For more information or to send abstracts, please contact:
Jill Bystydzienski, Director
Women's Studies Program
349 Catt Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: 515-294-9733
Fax: 515-294-5104
e-mail: bystydj@iastate.edu
Conference URL: www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/smet/homepage.htm
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SCHOLARSHIP:
Target Scholarship Opportunities for Precollege & College
Let's make sure that Target is absolutely inundated with applications from
minority students interested in engineering, math, science and technology.
Deadline: November 1, 2001 For High School & College Students Complete
guidelines and application forms are available online.
http://www.target.com/target_group/community/community_scholarships.jhtml
<http://www.target.com/target_group/community/community_scholarships.jhtml>
Contact: (800) 537-4180 ask for the Target All-Around Scholarship program
manager Target Corporation's All-Around Scholarships for Students provide
funding to well-rounded high school seniors and college students who are
committed to community service and education. Target will award four
$10,000 scholarships and more than twenty-one hundred $1,000 scholarships
to help
cover the costs of full-time, post-secondary, under-graduate educational
programs.
Eligible students include high school seniors, high school graduates, and
current college students age 24 or under who are legal U.S. residents.
Applicants must be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate course of study at
an accredited two-or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical
school in the U.S. no later than the fall term of the 2002 - 2003 school
year.The program is not currently offered in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,
or
outside the U.S.
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TEENAGER: Coping with September 11 events
Resist: a tool to help teens manage feelings, build tolerance, understand
patriotism = http://www.rippleeffects.com/resist/teens
Ripple Effects has launched a free web resource, "Resist," to help teens
respond constructively to the attack and its aftermath.
"Resist" develops skills for managing feelings, promoting tolerance, and
understanding patriotism. In a multimedia format teens like and can
identify with, it offers research-proven methods for handling emotions like
anger, grief, and fear, building skills connected to tolerance, and
grappling with the meaning of patriotism, and the roles of loyalty and
dissent in times of national distress.
It's there to reduce chances youth will respond to the attack by
scapegoating, hating, and stifling the dissent of others, or by using drugs
or alcohol to anesthetize what they are feeling. "Resist" helps build a few
key skills that can dramatically affect kids' lives.
Loaded with rich imagery, interactive games, practice opportunities, and
true stories, it's based on Ripple Effects award-winning learning system,
shown to be effective in reducing aggression and increasing pro-social
behavior, and used in hundreds of schools and youth serving organizations
nationally.
Four topics, anger, fear and anxiety, grief, and tolerance, are now
available at http://www.rippleeffects.com/resist/teens. Fourteen more will
follow in the coming weeks.
= For more information
= Ripple Effects, Inc. * resist@rippleeffects.com * 888-259-6618
= Media: http://www.rippleeffects.com/about us/mediakit.html
= Educators/Parents: http://www.rippleeffects.com/resist/teens/about.html
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VIDEOS race, diversity in the workplace:
(Recommendations by Bill Howe National Association for Multicultural
Education
NAME website: http://www.nameorg.org)
1)The one on sex is "The Fairer Sex" (videotape 0:20) ABC Primetime, ABC
News
Videos, PO Box 2249, Livonia, MI 48151; 800-913-3434.
That video is available through CorVision Media. Their
website is http://www.corvision.com
2) The Color of Fear
STIRFRY SEMINARS
3345 Grand Ave., Suite 3, Oakland, CA 94610
(510) 419-3930, Fax (510) 419-3934
TOLL FREE (800) 370-STIR
http://www.stirfryseminars.com
3) Not in Our Town (I & II)
California Working Group
5867 Ocean View Drive
Oakland, CA 94618
tel- 510-547-8484
fax- 510-547-8844
email: wedothework@igc.apc.org
4) Celebrate Living, Celebrate Giving - United Way 1993 Campaign Video
United Way of Greater Hartford (860) 493-1101
5) True Colors
1991 ABC News Prime Time Live Video
CLOSED CAPTIONED
A corVISION Media Release Produced by ABC News
Length: 19 minutes
Code: #412
Purchase Price: $325.00
1 Week Rental: $95.00
http://www.corvision.com/index.htm
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WEBSITES: Teaching tolerance and facts about Arabs and Arab-Americans
Compiled by Marylin A. Hulme,Equity Assistance Center at Rutgers University
October 2, 2001
www.adc.org
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, section on the Response to the
Crisis
www.arabia.com/news/article/english.html
News articles in English from Arab newspapers
www.aaiusa.org
Arab American Institute with statistics and educational information
www.ChildCareExchange.com
Ideas for talking to young children about September 11
www.ed.gov/inits/september11/index.html
Secretary Rod Paige's letter to educators with suggested strategies to
counteract bias and prejudice
www.esrnational.org
Educators for Social Responsibility ? "Talking to Children about Violence"
www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs.htm
The Detroit Free Press is posting a Q&A booklet about Arabs and Arab
Americans.
www.howstuffworks.com
Explains in a practical scientific way what happened.
www.nasponline.org
School psychologists provide help on how to cope to parents, teachers and
children. Sept 11 Tragedy section with materials translated into Arabic,
Chinese, Farsi, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
www.nccic.org/helpkids.html
More help on dealing with young children and their fears
www.rethinkingschools.org
Materials on teaching equity and social justice
www.socialstudies.org/resources/moment/socialeducation.shtml
The National Council for the Social Studies is providing information and
activities for teachers, and is requesting the same from teachers in the
field.
www.teachingforchange.org
Resources for educators on the September 11 tragedy and the response,
updated daily.
www.teachingtolerance.org
"Talking about Terror" and "Bias against Arab Americans"
Equity Assistance Center at New York University
www.nyu.edu/education/metrocenter/eac/eac.html
If you have anything you would like to add to future weekly resources list
or
have suggestions please e-mail it to: edequity-admin@mail.edc.org We are
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Final note: Information on these resources is provided as a service to the
listserv subscribers. EdEquity does not review or necessarily endorse these
events or top lists of trends.
Hilandia Rendon
EdEquity Moderator
EdEquity-admin@mail.edc.org
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