The conference this week — which was officially billed as a meeting of the executive committee and an orientation for new members — had a boosterish quality but also a tone of commiseration.
The Institute of France did not respond to a request for comment on the academicians' letter, nor did five other members of the foundation's orientation committee.
Preparation and training of committee members involved three key activities: orientation to the programme; orientation to the commissioning process and a research awareness workshop.
According to a report of a committee of the California Senate, sexual orientation change efforts (known as SOCE) include such practices as "electric shock or nausea inducing drugs administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli" and "psychoanalytic therapy".
This comment referred to the perceived tendency for committees to be blind to sexual orientation in hiring, but not in tenuring or promoting LGBT faculty to positions of leadership.
At these meetings, we will discuss the research themes that have been developed and future orientations proposed by the committee members.
The committee focused only on gender, not sexual orientation nor ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Both men plan to be in Washington this week, Mr. Bishop to lobby for committee assignments and Mr. Altschuler to attend orientation sessions for new members.
We use the Office of Education, which has contact with the fellows committee and student trainees, participate in the NIH orientation fair, and are listed in the NIH Intramural Research Sourcebook.
Although the Government of Nepal and its partners recognize the importance of ECD orientation for head teachers, ECD management committees, and district and VDC officials, training to date has not been implemented consistently in all districts.
