AAUW Celebrates 36th Anniversary of Title IX Pushes for Legislation to Strengthen Law’s Protections WASHINGTON – As the nation marks the 36th anniversary of Title IX, AAUW remains committed to strengthening the landmark legislation despite ongoing efforts aimed at weakening it. Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities, and it…
Welcome to the new AAUW NC web site! This site combines features of the two previous sites: www.aauwnc.org – our site since about 2000, with the history of previous meetings, information on the branches, our document library, and more news.aauwnc.org – the “blog,” where we post updates for our members, public policy announcements, news about the branches, info…
Florence Soltys, known in North Carolina and across the nation as a leading expert and fearless advocate for people as they aged, died Thursday, Sept. 27, of a heart attack. She was admired for her work on issues related to the goals of AAUW of North Carolina.
Effective September 1, Jennifer McDaniel will be taking over as the single AAUW Regional Liaison for the entire South Atlantic region for the National Girls Collaborative Project. She has been serving as the liaison for the southern part of the South Atlantic Region since January of this year. You may recognize her name from Kay…
AAUW NC has converted part of its web site to WordPress. This allows us to offer branch web sites with a reasonable amount of effort.
There are some difficulties with the web site for the regional meeting. Here’s a duplicate of the key information: The Joint South East Central and South Atlantic Regional Conference will be held at the Embassy Suites hotel in Birmingham, AL on June 9-11, 2006 The cost of one of the suites is $129 + tax…
Esther Lumsdon, Raleigh/Wake County branch president, handed this out at the branch meeting Tuesday evening. It updates the Fall Tar Heel News article on her participation in the Face Of America ride sponsored by World T.E.A.M (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) Sports. Teams of able-bodied individuals and disabled individuals, including servicemen just returning from the war,…
This is the time of year when we do spring cleaning – and think about how to store our AAUW records. Here are some documents that have offered guidance to my branch: Added 4/16/06: Preserving Historical Records, AAUW NY – 18 pages, 1992. This may be the definitive work on this subject. Note that the…