[OSCTC-planning] schools to contact for this fall

[Sumana Harihareswara]

Shauna, is this list useful?
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_academic_organizations_interested_in_women_in_CS
-Sumana

On 07/11/2014 06:23 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
> Status update: I contacted 22 schools today.  11 schools that we've run
> events at before, and 11 schools that I rated most likely to run an event.
>  I will see how things stand next week and contact additional schools
> (contacts rated less likely to run events, and new schools such as
> community colleges and women's colleges) as needed.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm getting ready to contact/re-contact schools re: running events this
>> fall, and in the spirit of transparency I thought I'd share my planning
>> process.
>>
>> Our goal is to run 15 events this fall, ideally 5 on each of the three
>> weekends we've selected.  My experience last semester was that for every 2
>> schools I contacted, 1 ended up running an event.  This suggests we should
>> contact 30 schools.
>>
>> From my big list of schools I've identified:
>>
>> 17 schools we've been in active conversation with recently.  Of these, I
>> judge 9 as likely and 8 as unlikely.
>>
>> 10 schools that have run past events that might want to run an event this
>> semester.
>>
>> 15 additional schools we've been in contact with further in the past or
>> less formally.
>>
>> This is already 42 schools, or more than the 30 we're aiming for.
>>
>> Additionally, I would like to do some more targeted diversity outreach.
>> Specifically, I'd like to do more events at women-only schools, community
>> colleges, and schools that serve primarily under-represented populations.
>>  I have friends who are faculty at two schools (Bunker Hill Community
>> College and CUNY Baruch) who I want to follow up with, at least, but I
>> would like to do more.
>>
>> I am tempted to go ahead and contact all of them.  It's possible that the
>> more restricted schedule means that we'll get a lower % of contacted
>> schools running events. But perhaps this is a terrible plan?  If we somehow
>> got 30 schools wanting to run an event that would be pretty overwhelming.
>>
>> Thoughts?  Advice?  Suggestions for schools to contact on the diversity
>> outreach front?
>>
>> ~ Shauna
>>
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