Author: rkniemer

I wrote briefly in my last blog post about the fact that taking action for equity is hard and uncomfortable. We can’t get around that fact. That being said, I think there are small steps that faculty (and others) can take to diversify STEM and, hopefully, make it more equitable and inclusive. None of these actions that…

One would think that after 40+ years with the same name, we at WISE would be confident in our “brand.” On some level, WISE’s name is fine. It tells the campus community who we are charged with supporting: Women in Science and Engineering. But on multiple other levels the name is both limiting and confusing (beyond…

It has been about two and a half years since I started as the managing director at WISE. In that time, WISE has started new initiatives, gotten a grasp of the data we have available to us, and successfully engaged U-M students in the new normal of higher education that has evolved since COVID interrupted…