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Turning Issues Into Action

Posted in Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, tagged , , , on February 8, 2008, | Leave a Comment »

This past weekend, AAUW of Colorado held their annual Public Policy Day, an event that is 30+ years strong. Titled “AAUW + Public Policy Issues = Advocacy & Action,” the event featured David Skaggs, executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education and a former member of Congress. I presented a workshop on running [...]

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Super Duper Tuesday

Posted in Voter Education, tagged , , , , , on February 7, 2008, | Leave a Comment »

February 5 was Super Tuesday, the day the largest number of states (24) had a primary or caucus (or in one case—West Virginia Republicans—a state convention). With so many nominating delegates at stake, Super Tuesday could have effectively settled who would be getting each party’s nomination, but it didn’t. On the Republican side, John McCain [...]

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Celebrate Women in Sports

Posted in The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged , , on February 6, 2008, | 2 Comments »

Wednesday, Feb. 6, is National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a day to celebrate the great “strides” that women and girls have made in sports at all levels. Over the last 35 years, Title IX has dramatically increased the number of girls and women participating in school sports. In fact, the National Coalition for [...]

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If Only Eleanor Were Here

Posted in Educational Programs, Women and Work, tagged , , , on February 6, 2008, | 5 Comments »

As I was waiting in the bookstore checkout line last night, casually eavesdropping on a Clinton vs. Obama debate the folks behind me were having, I spotted the book Eleanor vs. Ike, by known beltway insider Robin Gerber (of Katherine Graham’s biography fame). The book is a novel, albeit based on historical fact, with the [...]

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Welcome to AAUW’s Blog

Posted in Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged , on February 6, 2008, | 7 Comments »

When the American Association of University Women (AAUW) formed in the 1880s, one of its first accomplishments was a research project disproving the widely held belief that higher education adversely affected the health of women college students. Today AAUW continues to lead the nation through advocacy, education, and research to remove barriers faced by girls [...]

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