From aauw-leaders at lists.olympus.net Mon Oct 15 21:52:27 2007 From: aauw-leaders at lists.olympus.net (aauw-leaders@lists.olympus.net) Date: Mon Oct 15 20:59:00 2007 Subject: [AAUW-WA-Leaders] AAUW Leader Letter -- October 2007 Message-ID: <000601c80fa7$fb4c8430$9002a8c0@connie> This Leader Letter is coming to you via AAUW of Washington Leader-listserv from Connie Dunkelberger, State President. Do not reply to this message. Direct comments and questions to feedback@aauw-wa.org AAUW-WA LEADER LETTER October, 2007 Content: 1. Visit the New National Web site 2. Equity Issues in the News launched by Association 3. Washington Update 4. National Girls Collaborative 5. Nominations for State Officers needed 1. Association launched the new website on September 17th. I hope you have all visited this new sight. If you haven't take time this week and check out the many resources at your disposal and while you are there make note of how we can make better use of this site by making links to our state site. Send your suggestions to changes@aauw-wa.org. 2. Equity Issues in the News will feature news clips that focus on topical issues affecting women and girls the media has recently covered. Working together with Information Technology staff, the Equity Issues in the News features will soon be sent to members and non-members who subscribe to receive this information through AAUW's RSS news feed service via the AAUW website. Stay tuned for an announcement in the near future when it's operational. Samantha Slater, our media relations staff person in Communications, will be sending out Equity Issues in the News on a weekly basis. We feel that Equity Issues in the News--both on AAUW news coverage and in general, is one of the ways AAUW can clearly demonstrate that...equity is still an issue. Equity Issues in the News AAUW in the news The Sun Sentinel, South Florida, FL (Monday, Oct. 1) http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsinglesex1001pnoct01,0,213059.story Supporters say the single-sex classroom helps dissolve social obstacles to learning. Opponents, including the American Association of University Women, say it could turn schools backward, toward stereotyping and discrimination. Single-Sex Classes The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, MS (Sunday, Oct. 6) http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/10/06/local_news/local03.txt AAUW's 1998 study-six years after the association published How Schools Shortchange Girls-asserts that girls were receiving an inferior education in the nation's public schools. The earlier AAUW research found girls falling behind in high school, especially in math and science, though both sexes begin school with equal skills. Title IX University Under Fire for Censoring Victims The Diamondback (U of MD) (Monday, Oct. 8) http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2007/10/08/News/Univ-Under.Fire.For.Censoring.Victims-3017889.shtml Dozens of students and at least 20 fraternities and sororities have joined forces to protest a university-issued recommendation aimed at blocking student victims of sex crimes from naming their alleged attacker in an annual awareness event. Kicking Up History: UO Gets Around to Honoring Two Women's Soccer Teams >From the Early '80s That Had Been Forgotten The Oregonian (Friday, Oct. 5) http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/11915547248600.xml&coll=7&thispage=1 Megan Metz happened to be walking through the Chiles Center at the University of Portland one day last summer when she glanced at the display cases enshrining the school's sports heroes. The Portland native noticed that the certificates honoring All-Americans looked just like hers. Metz's arrived in the mail after she helped lead the University of Oregon women's soccer team to its first and only postseason tournament berth in 1981. Worth The Read Top Five Reasons Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History Huffington Post (Friday, Oct. 5) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arlene-m-roberts/top-five-reasons-wellbeh_b_67366.html I've spent the better part of the past 18 months holed up in various branches of the New York Public Library, working assiduously on an anthology of speeches entitled Eloquent Delivery-150 Great Speeches by Female Activists and Political Leaders, from Cady Stanton to Chisholm to Clinton. 3. If you are interested in receiving public policy updates on what is happing in the "other Washington" at least one person from each branch should subscribe to Washington Update. It is AAUW's free, members-only weekly e-bulletin. It offers an insider's view on the legislative process, the latest policy news, resources for advocates, programming ideas, and updates from the Public Policy and Government Relations Department. To stay up-to-date on all issues important to our mission, all AAUW members, including college and university partners, are encouraged to subscribe to Washington Update by emailing VoterEd@aauw.org. Our state AAUW sent a statement in support of the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843.) This bill would overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which severely weakens legal remedies for workers who have faced pay discrimination. The plaintiff in this case, Lilly Ledbetter, one of very few women supervisors at an Alabama Goodyear plant, suffered decades of pay discrimination and sexual harassment. While a jury found in her favor, the U.S. Supreme Court took her compensation away, holding that she waited too long to file her case. Under this newly-created Ledbetter rule, victims of discrimination have no recourse against such treatment unless they file a charge within 180 days of the employer's discriminatory decision, even if they are unaware that pay discrimination is occurring, even when the discrimination continues into the present. 4. Please enter your math, science or technology related programs in the Program Directory with the National Girls Collaborative if you have not yet done so - http://www.ngcproject.org/directory . The mini grant application blanks will be available on November 5th. To get a grant you must be registered with a program. Then also look around your community for a group you can collaborate with such as the Girl Scouts. 5. The Executive Committee is looking for two people to work on the State board for the remainder of 2007-2008 program year. A communications Chair is needed immediately and can choose to work with external publicity, i.e. press releases during the legislative session and public policy or help with the internal communications such as this communication and the Member Letters. We are also in need of a State Historian to work on some special projects with the Women's History Consortium. Anyone interested in either position should contact me immediately at president@aauw-wa.org. The nominations committee is working to look for officers for the 2008-2009 program year. If you have a name of a person you would like to nominate or you would like to be considered please contact Carolyn Cowan at nominations@aauw-wa.org. Connie Dunkelberger, State President If you are no longer a branch officer of AAUW-WA and do not wish to receive Leader Letters, please contact feedback@aauw-wa.org. Give us your name and branch so we will remove your name from your branch's directory if needed, as well. You will be unsubscribed as soon possible. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.olympus.net/pipermail/aauw-leaders/attachments/20071015/a38bd206/attachment-0001.html From aauw-leaders at lists.olympus.net Sat Oct 20 22:37:40 2007 From: aauw-leaders at lists.olympus.net (aauw-leaders@lists.olympus.net) Date: Sat Oct 20 21:40:05 2007 Subject: [AAUW-WA-Leaders] Girls Collaborative --AAUW Leader Memo Message-ID: <002301c8139c$20837090$9002a8c0@connie> This Leader memo is coming to you via AAUW-WA Leader-listserv from Carolyn Hayek, AAUW Regional Liaison for Mountain Pacific Region National Girls Collaborative Project Do not reply to this message. Direct comments and questions to feedback@aauw-wa.org or hayekservices@aol.com AAUW-WA LEADER MEMO October 20, 2007. Dear AAUW leader, We've all been thinking about ideas for new STEM projects during the past year. Now is the time to solidify those plans and put in a grant application to the National Girls Collaborative Project. You will find the information you need to prepare your application on the following webpage: www.ngcproject.org/mini-grant. The application may be submitted as early as Nov. 5, 2007, but no later than Dec. 15, 2007, and, if successful, you will receive your $1000 grant in time for a spring or summer project. There are 15 $1000 grants available this year for the Mountain Pacific Region. We expect the applications will come primarily from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. If your grant application is not successful this year, there will be more grants available next year, but the timing of those applications has not yet been determined. If you complete the grant process correctly, this is a grant you have a good chance of receiving. In past years, most completed applications have been approved. Here are some things to keep in mind as you put your project together: 1. You must have a community partner and both groups must be listed in the National Girls Collaborative On-line directory, so if you are not yet listed, do so NOW. See: http://ngcproject.org/directory. 2. The project should be a hands-on effort to spur the interest of K-12 girls in science, technology, engineering and math, not just a meeting or conference for adults. 3. There should be an evaluation and follow-up element to the proposal. 4. The grant must go towards something new, not just on-going expenses of an existing program. 5. Take your project to the community and seek out other participants and potential sponsors. This will help your grant money go further or perhaps help you do the project even without the grant. Study the materials and get into action. AAUW members are terrific organizers and this is a project which clearly serves our mission of Equity for Women and Girls through Advocacy, Education, and Research. 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