These minutes from the summer Board meeting in Gastonia have been approved by the reading committee. They are subject to approval of the Board at the next Board meeting in High Point in October. Karla Atkinson, Secretary
At the summer meeting in Gastonia, we handed out copies of the executive summary of Behind the Pay Gap. If you’d like to make additional copies and/or weren’t at that meeting, here is the Executive Summary of Behind the Pay Gap, the report that was released in April. For more information or to download the […]
College/University partners are institutional members of the Association. Each campus may name a faculty or staff member as its representative to the “broader” AAUW efforts. The representatives are encouraged to tap the branch resources when that makes sense, and the branches may contact the representatives with information about projects such as the Youth Advocacy ToolKit.
Attendees at the AAUW 2007 convention were treated to several powerful videos. The July edition of EdEqChange has information on access to those. All members are encouraged to read those memos, but because of wide interest in the videos, that portion of the memo is reprinted here.
AAUW: Because Equity Is Still an Issue (a new […]
AAUW Thousand Oaks CA has published three volumes of “Profiles of Women Past & Present.” Each volume describes fifteen remarkable women with monologues for you to present or read aloud. There are even costume and prop suggestions. Nancy has review copies. Check with her or see www.aauwto.org for more details and ordering information.
A subset of our “Historic Pinciples” selected by AAUW NC members who were looking at only one page of the booklet.
Last fall, the “member services database” was launched at www.aauw.org. I helped run a workshop in Phoenix about this, and presented some of the information at the AAUW NC summer meeting.
I forgot to pass out the handouts on the database — I’ll be mailing those to the branch presidents in the next edition of the […]
Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo introduced the Young Advocates Toolkit project to the attendees at the AAUW NC 2007 summer meeting. This project is funded in part by an AAUW public policy impact grant and is a collaboration with NC Action for Children. All branches are encouaged to use the project to make connections to at least one local campus with this project whose goal is empowerment of the students.
Kay White, president of AAUW Chapel Hill, attended the Association Convention in Phoenix, but was not able to be at our summer meeting.
Here is her report on the National Girls Collaborative Project Workshop
We’ll be talking more about the National Girls Collaborative Project at the AAUW NC Summer meeting, but the message I took from Phoenix was that the most important thing for branch members to do is to find the programs in our communities that are helping girls move towards science, technology, engineering and math and get […]
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