Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer Program

Purpose:  The program is designed to encourage innovative forms of interaction between distinguished women visitors and the faculty, students and administration of Notre Dame. It is expected that distinguished visitors will be present in a department for a period of four to six days, either in one visit or a series of visits. Consideration will be given to applications that involve the visitors in conferences, as keynote speakers. Departments are expected to devise a variety of events for their guest that would emphasize her status as a role model. These would include a lecture, as well as other events such as:

  • Informal meetings with individual faculty to discuss professional development for junior women.
  • Brainstorming sessions with administrators to discuss issues related to the hiring and promoting of women professors.
  • Workshops for undergraduates and/or graduate students. (The precise shape of the lecturer’s program, however, will be for the department to determine.) This kind of interaction is important because it would open the door to informal mentoring for women faculty and students, and because it would allow the administration to consider creative solutions to Notre Dame’s ongoing efforts to promote women to the senior levels.

The lecturer is expected to come to campus in either 2008/2009 or 2010/2011. Distinguished visitors receive a stipend of up to $5,000. An expense account of up to $2,000 will be available to cover the costs of travel and entertainment. Please try to secure dates as soon as possible and notify ISLA once the dates are set.

Recipients of awards are required to submit a one page report, in hard copy to the ISLA office, outlining how their funding was used and what its outcomes were. Please submit your report within one month of the completion of the project for which the funding was used.

Deadline:  November 10, 2008.  Nominations are to be made by Department Chairs, after appropriate consultation with department faculty. Please submit nominations, curriculum vitae of the potential speaker and a budget to the director of ISLA (101 O’Shaughnessy).

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