The WiSTEM organization advances the full and successful participation and inclusion of all persons within academic professions by addressing gender equity, recruitment and retention, awards and recognition, and career advancement and satisfaction.
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History
Community Collaborations
We strive to partner with our community to establish a network, collaborate for programming events, and seek funding opportunities.
A few of these partners are:
- ICAN
- NU Foundation
- Omaha STEM Ecosystem
Campus Priorities and Collaborations
As we continue to meet two of the University's Strategic Plan Efforts, Diversity & Inclusion and STEM, we actively collaborate with the following campus units:- Center for Faculty Excellence/Academic Partnership for Instruction
- University of Nebraska Office of Diversity and Inclusion
- STEM TRAIL Center
- WiSTEM - Women in STEM, UNO’s student organization
- Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Gender Equity (Formerly CCSW)
- UNMC Faculty Development Office
Where our members come from
- Academic Affairs
- Accessibility Services
- Aviation Institute
- Biology
- Biomechanics
- Center for Public Affairs Research
- Chemistry
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Criss Library
- Emergency Management
- Executive MBA program
- Facilities Management & Planning
- Foreign Languages & Literature
- Geology/Geography
- Gerontology
- Graduate Studies
- Health & Kinesiology
- Human Resources
- Information Services
- Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success
- Interdisciplinary Information
- IS&T
- IT Innovation
- Math
- Milo Bail Student Center Operations
- Music
- NASA Nebraska Space Grant
- Office of Research and Creative Activity (ORCA)
- Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications
- Physics
- Psychology
- Public Administration
- School of Arts,
- School of Communication
- Service Learning Academy
- Special Education/Communication Disorders
- Staff Advisory Council
- Teacher Education
- UNL Engineering
- Women and Gender Studies
Of these members, many are staff, several faculty (all levels), and a few administrators.
Executive Board
We are currently looking for members and to create an executive board. If you are interested, please reach out to Kelly Gomez Johnson at kgomezjohnson@unomaha.edu
Current Executive Board
President: Kelly Gomez-Johnson
Associate Professor, Teacher Education, UNO
Treasurer: Sheryl McGlamery
Professor, Teacher Education, UNO
Data Chair: Josie Schafer
Director/Chair, Center for Public Affairs Research, UNO
Awards Chair: Sandy Vlasnik
Lecturer, Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, UNO