email to lc4zs@virginia.edu if you have questions
ABOUT
The 2018 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, outlines the problem of sexual harassment in academia and provides 15 recommendations to reduce sexual harassment for faculty staff, and students in academic settings. A day-long series of events is planned with a focus on individual and institutional action plan development to reduce all forms of sexual harassment.
SPEAKERS
Liza
Gold
Sherry Yennello
Akia
Haynes
Claire Kaplan
Anne
Caughlin
AM
Program
PM
12:00
Welcome
09:05
09:10
NAS panel member, Liza Gold, M.D.
12:30
Working Lunch: How to develop personal action plans?
09:45
Questions & Discussion
01:30
Discussion Session 1
(choose one)
-
Diffusing hierarchy
-
Incentivizing change
-
Being an agent of change
-
Cultivating a culture intolerant to sexual harassment
10:05
Strategies for reducing sexual harassment
-
Anne Caughlin
-
Claire Kaplan
-
Kathryn Laughon
03:10
Discussion Session 2
(choose 1)
-
Improve transparency and accountability
-
Speak Up
-
Educate our community
-
Distribute responsibility to the entire community
11:00
What individuals and institutions can do to reduce sexual harassment
-
Andrea Press
-
Akia Haynes
-
Lisa Goff
04:45
Reception and Sharing
Alderman Room #557 is the nearest lactation room
Organizers
-
Linda Columbus
-
Charlotte Patterson
-
Carol Mershon
-
Emma Potter
-
Claire Kaplan
-
Manuel Lerdau
-
Simonetta Liuti
-
Nina Solenski
-
Francesca Calamita
-
Bonnie Gordon
-
Margaret Edwards
Sponsors
-
College of Arts & Sciences, Directors of Diversity and Inclusion
-
School of Engineering and Applied Science
-
Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights
-
Provost's Office
-
Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
