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Graduate Teaching Associates and Professor Gotch Speak at CSUSB Women's Leadership Conference

Graduate Teaching Associates and Professor Gotch Speak at CSUSB Women's Leadership Conference

Graduate Teaching Associates Ariana Cano, Cecilia Gutierrez, Erendira Torres, and Jessica Vierra and Professor Donna Gotch presented a panel entitled, 'Empowered Women: An Examination of Female Graduate Teaching Associates Identity' at the  CSUSB Women's Leadership Conference held February 2, 2018. 

Since its inception in 2000, the CSUSB Department of Communication Studies' Graduate Teaching Associate  (GTA) Program has had over 70 graduate students who have served as teaching associates. New to academia, GTAs encounter many challenges including how they manage having multiple identities.  Being a graduate student while simultaneously being an instructor presents a number of challenges especially for those who are female. Such challenges include age, gender, and race in addition to the use of power in the classroom among other variables. This panel will address specific challenges female GTAs have encountered and how they have established a strong network of women who promote success.