The following guide will support you in engaging in the community and accessing a host of resources available to you as a Classic Institutional Member, including:

• Four institutional member representatives
• Professional Development
• Decades of resources in the WEPAN Knowledge Center
• Professional development webinars
• Free and discounted workshops
• Free and discounted access to WEPAN’s Program Days
• Discounted annual convening registrations
• Communication & Networking
• WEPAN-L listserv
• Slack
• WEPAN member directory
• Workforce
• Discounted job postings for your institution in WEPAN’s Career Center

Your Institutional Membership at the Classic level comes with Four Institutional Representative seats. We recommend reviewing the roster of your institutional members to make sure benefits are extended to everyone you would like to see included.

Here are some tips on how to review and edit your list of representatives. To view more detailed instructions, visit this section of the WEPAN website.

1. Login to www.wepan.org with your username and password (if you have forgotten your password, you will have the option to reset).
2. Select “Manage Profile”.
3. Under Information and Settings, select “Institutional Representatives.”
4. As the primary institutional contact, you can choose to “enable” or “suspend” any of the listed representatives.

• Clicking the red “X” next to a representative will suspend that member’s account.
• Clicking the green check mark next to a representative will enable that member’s account.

5. To add new representatives to your list

• Click “Activate all available seats” at the top of the page to create space for the new representatives in your list.
• Select a method to add representatives:

1. Create representative profiles yourself, including usernames and passwords. For this option, click “Create Institutional Representatives.”
2. Allow representatives to create their own profiles using a link from you. For this option, type in the representatives’ email addresses in the “Invite New Members” space.

Your Classic Institutional membership provides you with free or discounted access to a variety of professional development resources. Here is an overview of each resource and how to access it.

WEPAN Knowledge Center

To access the WEPAN Knowledge Center, visit this section of the WEPAN website. Here you will find more than three decades of research and promising practices to support your work toward more diverse, equitable, and inclusive engineering educational spaces and workplaces. These include a curated and searchable annotated bibliography, conference proceedings, a data archive, webinar recordings, and interviews with STEM thought leaders.

Professional Development Webinars

To access WEPAN webinars and related resources, visit this section of the WEPAN website. Recent topics have explored advocacy and allyship, increasing the diversity of faculty candidate pools, using universal design in engineering education, mitigating bias, and much more!

Workshops

Like webinars, WEPAN workshops focus on topics relevant to creating inclusive cultures in engineering. They are typically 2-3 hours in length and allow participants to dive deeper into a topic.  As a Classic Institutional Member, you receive free and discounted access these workshops!

Program Days

WEPAN Program Days allow participants the opportunity to connect around a common theme and share best practices. Currently WEPAN has two planned Program Days for the fall of 2021—Women in Engineering Program and Women of Color Summit. As a Classic Institutional Member, you will receive free or discounted registration to WEPAN Program Days.

Annual Convening

Planning is currently underway for the next WEPAN Annual Convening, which will be hosted in partnership with the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network. The convening will take place in spring of 2022. As a Classic Institutional Member, you receive discounted registration to this convening where you will have the opportunity to network with and advertise to diversity, equity, and inclusion researchers, practitioners, and change agents as well as a diversity of scientists and engineers, WEPAN members, scientific and engineering professional society leaders, national labs, NSF program officers, and more!

WEPAN-L

As a member, you are an authorized user of the WEPAN-L listserv, which allows WEPAN members to share resources, seek advice, and stay informed on issues related to diversity and inclusion in engineering. If you have forgotten your username, please contact us at admin@wepan.org.

Any new representatives you add will also be added to WEPAN-L's distribution list. They will receive an email from the list once their email address has been added.

All messages sent to WEPAN-L flow through a moderator prior to being posted. Click here to review the WEPAN-L instructions and usage guidelines.

Slack

With channels for sharing articles and books, celebrating accomplishments, posting jobs, engaging at the annual convening, discussing key topics, and more, the WEPAN Slack group is a great place to engage with the community.

WEPAN Member Directory

Your membership includes 24/7 access to the WEPAN member directory where you can search and connect with other WEPAN members. To access the directory, login to your account on wepan.org and go to https://www.wepan.org/search/.

As a Classic Institutional Member, you receive 25% off postings for your institution on WEPAN's Career Center. Use the code we provided in your renewal confirmation email to receive this benefit. Note that you must be logged into your account on wepan.org to receive member benefits associated with posting jobs on WEPAN's Career Center. Members can read more about the Career Center here.