Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler,
carmen.chandler@csun.edu,
(818) 677-2130

CSUN Lecture to Focus on Gender Attitudes
Toward Computer Use in Education

The lecture, "Pink PCs and Other Gendered Configurations," will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Engineering Auditorium near the center of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge.

Peterson is a research associate with the Center for Gender Equity at the Washington Research Institute in Seattle, Wash. For more than 20 years she has been active in education, first as a classroom teacher and later as a university instructor, program administrator, information technology consultant and now as a researcher.

She has studied gender equity for many years and has focused much of her research on gendered attitudes towards computer use in education.

Peterson's lecture is sponsored by CSUN's College of Education.

For more information and to make reservations to attend, call (818) 677-2590.

California State University, Northridge has more than 27,000 full- and part-time students and offers 48 bachelor's and 39 master's degrees. Founded in 1958, it is the only four-year university in the San Fernando Valley.