More details to come with the July issue of this newsletter. Enclosed is the program announcement for AAMC's 12th Professional Development Seminar for Junior Women Faculty to be held in Santa Fe, NM, December 11-14, 1999. Early application is essential, given the popularity of this program. However, in response to the demand we're offering this seminar twice in 2000, beginning with April 8-11 in Reston, Virginia. As ever, do continue to suggest materials and developments to be highlighted in Update.
Most people view organizational politics as a necessary evil at best.
Think of politics as an activity that builds and maintains your power so that you can achieve your goals. Service entails listening to others without assuming you know what they are going to say, making your own positions clear so that others can evaluate your words and actions and caring about the human race and your organization. Return to Table of Contents Bookshelf and Briefcase Study on the Status of Women Faculty at MIT , The MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. Since the day this study hit the web, it has become widely circulated among women in academia. It turns out to take many forms, including a pattern of difference in how male and female colleagues are treated and of powerful but unrecognized assumptions that work systematically against women even in the light of obvious good will.