Please join us for an important symposium
The 'Summers Question':
Women and Higher Education in the U.S.
April 8, 2006
Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
Middlebury College

The conference is free and open to all but you Must Register, Please by contacting Janine Podraza at jpodraza@middlebury.edu or calling 802 443-3198

Program of the day's events:

8:30-8:40am Welcome Remarks, President Ron Liebowitz, Middlebury College and Sujata Moorti, Director, The Women's and Gender Studies Program, Middlebury College

Session 1

8:40-8:45 Introduction, Peggy Nelson, Middlebury College
8:45-9:40 Opening Session, Helen Horowitz, Smith College
9:40-9:50 Break

Session 2

9:50-9:55 Introduction, Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College
9:55-10:50 Mary Ann Dzuback, Washington University of St. Louis
10:50-11:00 Break

Session 3

11:00-11:05 Introduction, Stephanie Saguino, University of Vermont
11:05-12:00 Ann Mari May, Middlebury College
Lunch: 12-1:15

Introductory Remarks: Alison Byerly, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Middlebury College

Speaker: Jane Roland Martin, University of Massachusetts, Boston (12:30-1:15pm)

Session 4

1:30-1:35 Introduction, David Colander, Middlebury College
1:35-2:30 Diana Strassmann, Rice University and Roxane Gudeman, Macalester College
2:30-2:40 Break

Session 5

2:40-2:45 Introduction, Allison Stanger, Middlebury College
2:45-3:40 Barbara Gault, The Institute for Women's Policy Research