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Archive for April, 2010
Roller Coasters and Rockets after School
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Coronado Elementary, Donna Cowart, Dr. Joanne Detore-Nakamura, National Girls Collaborative Project, New Smyrna, NGCP, Science and Math, STEM, Women’s Diversity Center on April 29, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
“I never knew how many things involved science.” —Coronado Elementary School student The AAUW New Smyrna Beach (FL) Branch is proud to have been the first branch to initiate a science and math program for girls in Florida. As a retired high school teacher, I was anxious to involve my branch in the community. I [...]
Meet Freda Bredy
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Electrical Engineer, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Medical Service Corps, SECME, Selected Professions Fellow on April 28, 2010, | 1 Comment »
IBM Senior Consultant and Army Medical Corps Reservist Freda Bredy, a 2005–06 Selected Professions Fellow, remembers that in high school her mother served a dual role as guidance counselor and SECME (Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering) adviser. This involvement all but guaranteed Freda’s involvement in science and math activities at the school. In 11th [...]
Yoopers Are Ready to Run and Win
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged Campaign College, Elect Her, Marquette, Michigan, NMU, Northern, Northern Michigan University on April 26, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
For the last Campaign College training that I attended, I was lucky enough to head to a location I’d never set foot in before, the upper peninsula of Michigan. As an honorary Yooper (that’s the term for people in the U.P.), I got a chance to see the expansive Lake Superior and sample fresh white [...]
Equal Pay Day 2010 — A Round Up
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Chris Dodd, equal pay day, Lilly Ledbetter, Marking Equal Pay Day, Paycheck Fairness Act, unequal pay, wage gap on April 22, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Equal Pay Day — the symbolic point at which a woman’s salary finally catches up to a man’s earnings from the previous year — is a 24-hour observance. However, at AAUW, the issue of pay equity remains an evergreen one as women continue to earn 77 cents on the dollar, on average, compared with men [...]
Campaign Strategies on Campus
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged Campaign College, Lara Stone, UMass Dartmouth, University of Massachesetts on April 22, 2010, | 1 Comment »
By Kelly Trumpbour, Senior Director, Running Start On Saturday, March 27, the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, hosted Campaign College. Our discussions about why young women should run for student government inspired several attendees to consider putting their names on the ballot in the upcoming campus elections. The students had the opportunity to hear from Lara [...]
Meet Kate Schapira: Poet, Teacher, Program Developer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grant, Following the Fellows on April 21, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Camp Beacon Women’s Correctional Facility is not surrounded by a fence, and there is no barbed wire. Rather, the women serving in this minimum security prison wear ankle bracelets, which set off an alarm if they pass the boundary. It was here at this atypical prison that Kate Schapira, a 2002–03 AAUW Community Action Grant [...]
A Victory for Title IX
Posted in Equity in the News, Title IX, tagged athletics, intercollegiate athletics, NCAA, student athletes, Title IX, women's athletics on April 21, 2010, | 5 Comments »
April is perhaps the greatest month in the sports calendar. Among other things, you’ve got Opening Day and the start of a new MLB season, the beginning of the NHL and NBA playoffs, the Masters golf tournament , and the Final Four in the men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments. It’s hard to improve upon [...]
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