Butler University, DePauw University, Indiana University and Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology Application for Distinguished Lecture Series (2005-2006)
Scheduling Constraints
Butler University
fall 2005: Classes begin on Thursday, August 25
Classes end on Friday, December 9
unavailable dates: Sept 5, October 4; October 13-14; November 21-25
DePauw University
fall 2005: Classes begin on Wednesday, August 24
Classes end on Friday, December 16
unavailable dates: October 4; October 17-21; November 21-25
Indiana University (IU)
fall 2005: Classes begin on Monday, August 29th
Classes end on Saturday, December 10th
unavailable dates: October 28; November 22-28
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
fall 2005: Classes begin on Thursday, September 1
Classes end on Thursday, November 17
winter 2005: Classes begin Monday, November 28
Classes end Thursday, February 23
unavailable dates: October 13-14; November 14-26; December 21- January 3
Summary of unavailable dates: September 5; October 4, 13-21, 28; November 14-28;
December 10-31
Venue
The venue for the lectures/meetings will be the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology campus.
Rose-Hulman is located in Terre Haute, IN. The airport closest to Terre Haute is the Indianapolis
International Airport, which is 70 miles from Rose-Hulman. (We can make arrangements to have
the speakers picked up and dropped off at the airport and the hotel, if that is preferred.)
Advertising/linkages
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Distribution lists for Computer Science women at each of the four institutions.
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Butler University, DePauw University, Indiana University, and Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology belong to a regional ACM-W chapter (Association for Computing
Machinery's Women in Computing Committee project involving student chapters). We
could easily promote and advertise the speaker events using our organizational structure.
(We will note previous collaborative efforts in the next bullet points.)
The four, regional-chapter schools' strong alliance produced a successful small regional
conference Central Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing in February 2004.
(http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage.July.2004.cfm?story=6&CFID=447
93637&CFTOKEN=78622118 contains a MemberNet ACM article) and spawned
another regional conference, Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing held in April
2005 (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ocwic). A second Indiana conference is planned for
February 2006.
Women from Butler University and Rose-Hulman attended the Celebration of Women in
Computing in April 2005 at the University of Illinois.
The four colleges jointly hosted J. Fuegi and J. Francis directors of “To Dream
Tomorrow” in October 2003. The documentary film about the life and contributions of
Ada Lovelace was screened at each of the campuses followed by an open forum with the
directors.
Butler University sponsored "Women in IT: Changing the Future of Technology" on
October 22, 2002 with keynote speaker Barbara Simons, past president of the ACM, and
faculty/student representatives from the other four universities.
DePauw University women have traveled to the other three college sites for social events;
DePauw University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology women have met at a
restaurant halfway between the two schools, as well.
DePauw University had Indiana University Professor Kay Connelly speak at their
Women in Science series in the fall of 2004.
The proposal would benefit Butler University, DePauw University and Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology, as we have no graduate schools. The female graduate students at
Indiana University would serve as role models for our students
DePauw has an active Women in Science (WIS) program that would also endorse this
event. This URL points to more information about the WIS program:
http://www.depauw.edu/univ/wis/
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The women who direct the WIS program hosted a PKAL workshop here in 1998
“Women in Science: An Underutilized Resource”
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a new club for women in computer science,
software engineering and electrical engineering called gEECS (girls in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering). This club was initiated by a
group of females students who were awarded the third prize at the Games 4 Girls
Competition held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in April 2005. The
members of gEECS would endorse and publicize this event.
Indiana University has an active Women in Computing group (WIC@IU) comprised of
undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff in Computer Science, Informatics
and the School of Library and Information Sciences, as well as staff from the University
Instructional and Technology Systems. Indiana University also has an active Women in
Science Program (WISP) through the Office of Women’s Affairs. Both WIC@IU and
WISP would endorse and publicize this event.
Contact People
Butler University:
Peter Henderson
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Butler University
4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208
phenders@butler.edu
317/940-9513
DePauw University:
Gloria Townsend
Computer Science Department
DePauw University
268 Julian Science and Mathematics Center
Greencastle, IN 46135
gct@depauw.edu
765/658-4726
Indiana University:
Beth Plale
Department of Computer Science
Indiana University
Lindley Hall Rm. 215
Bloomington, IN 47405
plale@cs.indiana.edu
812/855-4373
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology:
Archana Chidanandan
Computer Science and Software Engineering Department
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, CM 4046
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803
chidanan@rose-hulman.edu
812/877-8358
Student liaison
Amanda Stephan
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, CM 1890
5500 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47803
stephaap@rose-hulman.edu
574/532-2715
Information
Butler University
BS in Computer Science and Software Engineering
60 undergraduate CS majors (10 female or 17%)
4 CS/SE faculty members (0 female or 0%)
DePauw University
BA in Computer Science
121 undergraduate CS majors (21 female or 17%)
7 CS faculty members (2 female or 29%)
Indiana University
BA, BS, MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science
BS, MS and Ph.D. in Informatics
248 undergraduate CS majors (19 female or 8%)
152 graduate CS majors (25 female or 16%)
423 undergraduate Informatics majors (59 female or 14%)
104 graduate Informatics majors (38 female or 37%)
30 CS faculty (5 female or 17%), 40 Informatics faculty (8 female or 20%)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
BS in Computer Science
BS in Software Engineering
200 undergraduate CSSE majors (17 female or 9%)
13 CSSE faculty members (2 female or 15%)