Notes from Fall 2008 semester planning meeting

We had an awesome turnout for this planning meeting!!
Instead of the 4-5 people that we normally see turn up, this most recent planning meeting saw close to fifteen or so people turn out.

We started with introductions, and went around the room.

We spent the rest of the time brainstorming lots of ideas to do throughout the semester. In terms of scheduling events, Layne made the point that in the past, we have concentrated on spacing out the events. We all agreed that this semester, rather than limiting events in order to avoid overloading people, we would simply let events take place when it was most convenient for the panel organizer and its participants.

The ideas the group generated are listed below, with their tentative contact people:

• Financial planning workshop (Connie Steel)
• Potential workshop by Heather from Women Against Violence/RAD (Connie Steel)
• Turning the FSG into a Facebook page, and linking the existing blog to the Facebook page (Erin, with help from Cate and Foley)
• Having a potluck!! Scheduled for the 12th!
• Organizing your sh*t workshop (Erin)
  
• Modeling one method per workshop
• Talk to Peg Syverson
  
• Pedagogy panel: Being a TA? Teaching "gendered lit."? Teaching gender in a 316 where there isn't much women's literature... (Patty?)
  
• Collecting the syllabi from professors that teach 316K and putting together something that shows how many women's texts are taught in each course; incorporating this into the above pedagogy panel, or into a new one (Patty)
  
• Workshop: Feminism and the administration (Layne)
• Lisa Moore and the study
• Megan Little
• Tim
  
• Workshop: Gender and the Job Market (Jessica, Hala, and Pearl)
• How the hiring process is gendered
• Tips and strategies for women on the job market, specifically in job interviews/job talks
• How to navigate all of the situations (what are the situations?)
• The job talk itself/the colloquia process
• People to potentially invite: Olga, Liz (Cullingford?), Matt Richardson, Julia Lee

Next Actions:

• Connie:
  
• $ group
• WAV stuff
• RAD training
  
• Erin:
• Facebook
• Organizational panel (Travis re: Zotero, talk to Sean, Peg, etc.)
• Add people to the listserv
  
• Layne
• GLBTQ ally training workshop (for the spring?)
• GLBTQ awareness workshop
  
• Patty:
• Collecting syllabi
• Putting together panel re: TAs and gender
  
• Lydia:
• Parenthood panel
• Jessica:
• Heading up the panel on faculty/job talk
  
• Pearl
• Job talk and gender panel
  
• Hala
• Job talk and gender panel
• Send out email regarding potluck