Considering the readership around here. . .

. . .this might be of interest to someone.

The Center for Women & Information Technology (CWIT) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is pleased to announce the availability of a merit-based scholarship program to encourage women to prepare for careers in information technology. The CWIT Scholars Program identifies 10 high-achieving high school seniors annually and provides four years of financial and programmatic support for pursuit of a bachelor's degree at UMBC in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field. Now in its second year, the program is open to both women and men who support women's full involvement in information technology.

In addition to financial support, CWIT Scholars benefit from mentoring, internships, service learning opportunities, specialized courses including one on "Women, Gender, and IT," brown-bag lunches, interaction with distinguished participants in the CWIT Speakers Series, and more. Additional information and an application form are available on the CWIT web site:
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/cwitscholars.html .
Application deadline:
January 15, 2004.

Please help spread the word about this exciting scholarship opportunity.

Joan Korenman, Founding Director
Center for Women and Information Technology
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
korenman@umbc.edu
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/

Want to know more? Women in IT is a theme that crops up from time to time at misbehaving.net Could do worse than start with If I Had It To Do Over.

I should have stayed in school, some way or another. I just didn't get it then. The more school, the more opportunities I would have had, the more authority I would have had, the more choices I would have had, the more interesting people I would have met. I thought then I wanted my freedom -- to be free of school, to be done with it. Little did I know the more school I did then, the more freedom I would have NOW when it really matters.

And what kind of school would I have done ... more IT, more Finance, more languages for starters, maybe law.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled bitter misogyny, already in progress.

Although, reading the entry at misbehaving on The Montreal Massacre. . . that doesn't seem terribly funny.