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Appendix E-13: American Society for Civil Engineering
Pages 207-210

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From page 207...
... welcomes the opportunity to provide written testimony in support of the conference Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia. As stewards of the nation's infrastructure and leaders in building a better quality of life, we find this conference and its goals timely, if not well overdue, and core to the ability of our nation to innovatively build a workforce capable of addressing the urgent issue of rebuilding our nation's aging and insufficient infrastructure to remain competitive in a global economy.
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From page 208...
... Specifically, the challenges we currently face are: Difficulty in collecting up to date and complete member data: As a membership based professional society, historically, our membership database and related data collection efforts have been primarily focused on capturing data directly related to our members' professional and technical work. The systems we used previously provided limited demographic reporting and analysis capabilities, making the seemingly simple task of capturing and analyzing demographic data arduous.
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From page 209...
... We plan to increase retention by supporting more career exploration and professional development initiatives with our diversity partners. Our strategy also calls for us to introduce leading civil engineering employers to successful programs like the National GEM Consortium's GEM Fellowships, and leveraging webinars to share contemporary research similar to the 2011 report by Dr.
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From page 210...
... SEEKING SOLUTIONS and leave you with this quote by famous cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has." 210
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