Dear Editor,
I am writing to contradict the highly distorted conception that women are underrepresented at the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL). Nothing could be more inaccurate as even the rest of the Daily article frankly proceeds to demonstrate.
Here are the indisputable facts for Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) itself from the last decade:
2002 - Global Inequities ? 40 students/28 women (70%)
2003 - Sovereignty and Intervention - 48 students/29 women (61%)
2004 - Dilemmas of Empire and Nationbuilding: The Role of the US in the World - 44 students/29 women (66%)
2005 - Oil and Water - 56 students/39 women (70%)
2006 - The Politics of Fear - 43 students/32 women (74%)
2007 - Global Crises: Governance and Intervention - 43 students/26 women (61%)
2008 - Global Poverty and Inequality - 46 students/33 women (72%)
2009 - Cities: Forging and Urban Future - 40 students/25 women (63%)
2010 - South Asia: Conflict, Culture, Complexity and Change - 40 students/24 women (60%)
2011 - Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise - 30 students/15 women (50%)
2012 - Conflict in the 21st Century - 42 students/26 women (62%)
2013 - Global Health and Security - 53 students/40 women (76%)
In our other IGL annual academic course, the Program on Narrative and Documentary Practice (PNDP), this year nine of the 12 students enrolled are women. In both EPIIC and PNDP all four TAs this year are women. Likewise, this year the great majority of our other individual programs are led by women. Clearly the Institute is highly welcoming and supportive of the highest-caliber female students that the University attracts.
All of our students, male or female, who we are highly fortunate to mentor and support are bold, adventurous, intelligent and resourceful risk-takers.
Respectfully yours,
Sherman Teichman
Founding Director of the Institute for Global Leadership
