Letter from Sara Coulter to Annette Chappell, 1983

Annette, I am in the process of planning the Jan. W.S. Conf. (or whenever it is held). Our thinking, that I want you to evaluate, is to present it as a way of introducing the project I Integrating the Scholarship on Women (our new title) to the university community. We plan to invite each chair plus one key dept. member, such as the head of the curr. comm., to be paid $25 each to attend and take back info. to their depts. Other faculty can attend free and will be encouraged to do so. We will have four speakers (probably our consultant types who will come for $150 and know their business) who will nrsent the implications of the scholarship on women for the social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities, and? . Everyone would listen to all four (brief) presentations and then break up into individual groups for more discussion with the four speakers in specific areas. This would take about one half to two thirds of a day. Preparation for the conference would include distributing this semester a questionnaire to faculty to determine how women are presently included in their courses, We would create and print the questionnaire but it would initially be returned to the chair and other rep. for summalry and review so that they would come to the conference with a sense of the status quo. lhe questionnaire would then be passed on to us for our information (a kind we have never gathered this systematically before). The 4 speakers would arrive the night before and have dinner with us to discuss what we are trying to do (they would be told this in advance but they need to meet each other and us to coordinate properly). Questions: Is this a good idea? is it practical? will it work? [handwritten: Also maybe someone on women students as the primary (maj.) students. Bunny (?) Sandler] What should the 4 areas or topics be to cover all depts. most effectively? For instance, health might be covered by the science person but would they listen to someone in biology? Is the questionnaire a good idea? would it alienate or just bore? [handwritten: yes] Would one more conference in Jan., either the day after the Fac. Dev. or a week or so later, be better than a Sat. in March? [handwritten: Can we (who?) pay for food? how? Please respond soon. Proposal due Fri. As always, Sara x2859]