CEOSE Mini-Symposium on Institutions Serving Persons with Disabilities in STEM

这一奖项授予杰克逊州立大学密西西比州电子中心，以支持CEOSE以服务残疾人为重点的小型研讨会，该研讨会将于2007年10月15日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的NSF总部举行。会议将作为一个论坛，协助欧洲经委会探讨扩大残疾人参与STEM的机制，STEM是一个在各级科学和工程事业中代表性严重不足的群体。被邀请的参与者将包括来自残疾社区的代表，包括STEM学生，以及那些在STEM学科中与残疾学生和教师合作并创建了包容和支持残疾学生和教师的计划的个人。该专题讨论会将使CEOSE能够确定供国家科学基金会审议和采取行动的建议。这一时机恰到好处的会议承诺为与会者提供一个讨论机构政策和战略的场所，这些政策和战略正在并已经成功地增加了STEM的残疾人人数。

This award to the Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University provides support for a CEOSE mini-symposium focused on serving persons with disabilities and will be held at the NSF's Headquarters, Arlington, VA on October 15, 2007. The meeting will serve as a forum to assist CEOSE in the exploration of mechanisms that broaden participation of persons with disabilities in STEM, a population sorely under-represented at all levels of scientific and engineering enterprise. Invited participants will include representatives from the disabled community, including STEM students, and those individuals who have worked with and created programs inclusive and supportive of disabled students and faculty within the STEM disciplines. The symposium will enable CEOSE to identify recommendations for NSF consideration and action. This well-timed conference promises to provide a venue where participants will discuss institutional policies and strategies that are and have been successful at increasing the number of persons with disabilities in STEM.