From aauw-women at lists.olympus.net Sun Jan 7 18:19:33 2007 From: aauw-women at lists.olympus.net (aauw-women@lists.olympus.net) Date: Sun Jan 7 18:40:45 2007 Subject: [AAUW-WA-BrMember] AAUW January Member Letter Message-ID: <000601c732cb$72b7da70$9002a8c0@connie> This Member Newsletter is coming to you via AAUW of Washington Member-listserv from Connie Dunkelberger, State President. Do not reply to this message. Direct comments and questions to feedback@aauw-wa.org American Association of University Women Expanding the Legacy Leadership Ready for Action: The newspapers are reporting a surplus in the state budget. Speculations are running wild as to how this legislative session will spend the "wind fall". Our governor is definitely supportive of early childhood education issues and is also concerned about the math/science short fall within our schools. These issues have been high on our priorities, so now more than ever before we need to stand up and be counted. I urge all branches to send at least one or two people to Lobby Day on January 29th. We want every legislator to have a visit from someone in their constituency. For further information check the state AAUW web site or e mail lobbyday@aauw-wa.org . Education as the Gateway for Women's Economic Security: The Seattle Branch will is sponsoring a Money Wi$e Women Educational Services program at Seattle University on January 13th from 9:00 -4:45. The Keynote speaker will be author of Becoming a Money Wi$e Woman, Marcia Brixley, whom we have featured in many of our AAUW articles. Future dates and locations for Money Wi$e Women Forums throughout the Puget Sound area also include: February 10 -- Island Lakes Conference Center, Poulsbo February 17 - University of Puget Sound, Tacoma March 10 - Everett Community College, Everett March 31 - Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond April 21 - Ft. Worden, Port Townsend For more information and registration visit the website: www.moneywisewomen.net "Planning for an Economically Secure Future" Ground-breaking Research While several measures of educational achievement show that on average women are faring as well as their male counterparts today, often times these gains do not translate into comparable economic success beyond college. In 2004, college-educated women 25 and older earned 75 percent of what their male peers earned. This pay gap appears within the first year after college - even when women are working full-time in the same fields as men - and widens in the first ten years in the workforce. AAUW Educational Foundation research, to be released in Spring 2007, points to several factors that appear to be pivotal including the field of study, the decision to have children, and occupational choice. (U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993/2003 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study.) AAUW Campus Action Project Teams Selected The AAUW Leadership and Training Institute is pleased to announce this year's Campus Action Project (CAP) grant awardees. Ten teams from around the country have been selected to implement projects on their campus under the theme Planning for an Economically Secure Future during spring 2007. And, CAP teams will also be presenting at AAUW's 2007 National Conference of College Women Student Leaders; has your branch thought about providing a scholarship for some lucky college woman to attend this leadership conference? AAUW of Washington State will again offer a $500 scholarship to help one student attend this conference. DaVina Hoyt, Young Member Representative on the State Board, will be handling the applications. The application forms will be available on the web site or from DaVina at collegerep@aauw-wa.org. If you know of a college student who would benefit from this leadership training in Washington, D.C. in June, be sure to let her know about this conference. The 2006 conference was a great success; watch for the 2007 conference details on the national web site coming out soon! Governor Gregoire's Featured Board Vacancies Serving on a State Board or Commission is a wonderful way to give back to your community and to use your skills and talents in service of the citizens of the State of Washington. A partial list of the openings, which need people to apply by the end of January, is available from feedback@aauw-wa.org. Applications are available online at: www.governor.wa.gov/actions/appointments/boards/application.doc If you have questions or would like to learn more about B&C please call the Governor's Office at (360) 902-4111 or email: GovernorGregoireBoardsandCommissions@gov.wa.gov RECENT WOMEN'S HISTORY COLLECTIONS INITIATIVE Olympia, WA - The Washington Women's History Consortium is launching an initiative to encourage the donation of modern women's history materials to professional archives across the state. The Consortium, created by state statute (RCW 27.34.360) in 2005 as a Washington State Historical Society-led initiative, is dedicated to preserving and making available to the public resources about Washington women's history. The legislative mandate of the Consortium encourages the collection and preservation of materials important to understanding Washington women's history, with special emphasis on the last several decades. To help implement this mandate, the Consortium is encouraging the donation of materials related to the women's rights movement of the late 20th century and the expanding role of women in modern society, which are currently kept in private collections, to the Consortium member archives. These donations will create important research collections for this era. As part of a 2006 legislative appropriation, funds will be allocated to the members to process the materials and make them available online in 2007. Items such as flyers, organization minutes, buttons, bumper stickers, flags, letters, reminiscences, oral histories, forms, agendas and other meeting materials, manuals, meeting announcements, clippings and fundraising project records are important materials to help researchers understand this important period in our state's history. For a complete list of member institution contacts and institution collection guidelines, see the Women's History Consortium website at: http://www.washingtonwomenshistory.org for more information about the Consortium, contact Coordinator Shanna Stevenson sstevenson@wshs.wa.gov. Western Washington University, Center for Pacific NW Studies accepts branch records for the AAUW and is part of the Consortium. If your branch does not have a place for your archives at a local historical society or library contact the archivist, Ruth Steele. Her e-mail is: ruth.steele@wwu.edu. One Shared World Kicks Off Second Year We are pleased to announce that for a second year AAUW will continue its partnership with the Academy for Educational Development and its One Shared World campaign to raise awareness of global poverty and generate dialogue about what we, as Americans, can do to help tackle it. The campaign especially seeks to connect America's working women to the many public and private efforts that help people in developing countries overcome poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and disease. Whether you want to be better informed about development assistance, find tools to encourage others to get involved, or discover a personal way to do more, we invite you to become part of One Shared World. One Shared World "program-in-a-box" will be available for states, branches, and members to use in celebrating International Women's Day on March 8, 2007. Carolyn Wilhite is the contact for a preview interactive teleseminar on this program on January 30th. If you would like to attend please contact her at international@aauw-wa.org. Learn more about One Shared World. Important Dates January 29th LOBBY DAY January 31st Articles for Evergreen Leader Deadline Convention Dates: State Convention " Sowing Seeds for Fulfillment" Spokane, WA April 27-29, 2007 Association Convention " Expanding the Legacy of Leadership" Phoenix, Arizona June 29 - July 2, 2007 Happy New Year, Connie Dunkelberger president@aauw-wa.org AAUW Member Letters arrive once a month. If you wish to receive more information about AAUW of Washington, you can sign up for Leader Letters or AAUW-WA Advocate, even if you are not a branch officer, by contacting feedback@aauw-wa.org. You may also use this to unsubscribe from member letters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.olympus.net/pipermail/aauw-women/attachments/20070107/bb32bb0b/attachment-0001.html From aauw-women at lists.olympus.net Thu Jan 18 21:55:59 2007 From: aauw-women at lists.olympus.net (aauw-women@lists.olympus.net) Date: Thu Jan 18 21:56:27 2007 Subject: [AAUW-WA-BrMember] Member Letter from Carolyn Hayek, Regional Liaison to the National Girls Collaborative Project Message-ID: <000b01c73b8e$81966360$9002a8c0@connie> This Member Newsletter is coming to you via AAUW of Washington Member-listserv or AAUW Member at Large Listserve. Do not reply to this message. Direct comments and questions to: feedback@aauw-wa.org To: All AAUW Members in the Mountain Pacific Region From: Carolyn Hayek, Regional AAUW Liaison to the National Girls Collaborative Project Date: January 18, 2007 Re: Northwest Girls Collaborative Forum at Microsoft, Feb. 2, 2007 If you support enhancing math and science education for K-12 girls and consider registering for the NGCP Forum to be held Feb. 2, 2007, at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond from 11am to 3pm. You can register on-line at the following website: http://www.erasurvey.org/input/NWwinter.htm Please encourage any interested AAUW member to participate as well as program managers, guidance counselors, business partners, technical professionals, teachers, and representatives from professional organizations and higher education. Valuable presentations and workshops will be available from the following organizations: PBS Dragonfly SciGirls: http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/parentsteachers/scigirls.html TechBridge: http://www.techbridgegirls.org Assessing Women in Engineering: http://www.engr.psu.edu/awe ITEST Learning Resource Center: http://www2.edc.org/itestlrc The Ophelia Project: http://www.opheliaproject.org Contact Bev Walker at bwalker@psctlt.org with questions about the forum. Volunteer opportunities are available for AAUW members able to come between 10 am and 4pm. This event is sponsored by the National Girls Collaborative Project, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and the American Association of University Women is an active participant. AAUW Liaisons from across the country will be attending, along with AAUW staff research associate Christi Corbett, who is coordinating AAUW participation. The Forum is part of the training for leaders of regional collaboratives located in seven regions of the country. Each regional collaborative will be seeking grant applicants for fifteen $1,000 mini-grants to be distributed in their area. Attendees will receive information about the grant application process and learn how to register their organization or project in the national database of K-12 STEM projects to be developed as part of this 5-year project. Networking opportunities are also an important part of this project, to help STEM program sponsors and presenters learn more about each other and to share ideas about how to best further opportunities for girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). If you are involved in an existing STEM project, you are invited to bring a display to tell others what you have done. If you are willing to serve as a volunteer at the forum, please share that information with AAUW's Mountain Pacific Regional Liaison for this project: Carolyn Hayek, hayekservices@aol.com, in addition to registering for the forum. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.olympus.net/pipermail/aauw-women/attachments/20070118/7687aeff/attachment.html