i3 Director, Michael Depew, will co-present a Session for Interaction and Engagement at iConference 2015 in Newport Beach, California. Fellow presenters will include i3 Assistant Director, Courtney Loder, and the 2014 PhD Teaching Fellows: David James, Martez Mott, Connie Pascal, and Melissa Villa-Nicholas. The session, titled Pipelines and Pathways into the Information Professions, will bring together members of the iSchool community to identify social and technical skills that prepare students from underrepresented groups for graduate study–and subsequent academic careers–in the information sciences. The purpose of the session is to celebrate the work of existing pipeline initiatives, collaborate around the enduring problem of diversifying the information professions, and create new knowledge about obstacles and barriers that current and former information school graduate students face when it comes to preparing for or completing graduating education at an information school.
iConference 2015 will be hosted by the University of California, Irvine on March 24-27, 2015. For more information: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/