The nominees for the 2007 AAUW Juvenile Literature Award have been announced. See www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/affiliates/lit-hist/awards/awards.htm for the list of nominees and previous years’ winners for several awards administered by the NC Literary and Historical Society. The award will be presented at the meeting of the NC Literary and Historical Society in Asheville on Saturday, November 10…
PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGE: It’s going to be hard to beat last year’s programs, but we’re going to try. We are starting off the year with a fun outing on Saturday, August 25th. We will meet at the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores. The Aquarium reopened last year after a $25 million expansion. Let’s see…
AAUWNC 2007 public policy action item is now a reality! The General Assembly adopted a 3.5% NC refundable EITC. The EITC will give a tax credit to more than 825,000 working North Carolinians at the time they file their state tax returns. By providing a tax refund to moderate- and low-wage workers, the NC EITC…
VICTORY ON PUBLIC FINANCING!!!!! Good news to report-HB 1517 passed the NC Senate yesterday!! This bill creates a public financing option for 3 Council of State offices: Commissioner of Insurance, State Auditor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction. This program will go into effect in the 2008 election. This is the third victory this session for…
AAUW NC News June 16 – July 30, 2007
Photos from the AAUW 2007 Convention in Phoenix.
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…
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…
AAUW NC News June 8 – July 15, 2007 Please scan this list of “headlines” and if there’s something of interest, do read the full story. If these links are not “clickable” for you, go to https://www.aauwnc.org/headlines for another version of this list, or use the “search” in the upper right of https://www.aauwnc.org to go…
A subset of our “Historic Pinciples” selected by AAUW NC members who were looking at only one page of the booklet.