When I’m studying for a calculus test at 2 a.m. or fighting a losing battle with a computer I’m programming, attending college doesn’t seem like a blessing. I sometimes forget how lucky I am to have the resources and the opportunity to pursue a university degree. Recently, I snapped out of my complacency slump when [...]
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Help a Girl, Save the World
Posted in Educational Programs, Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, education, poverty, Student Advisory Council, SAC, The Girl Effect, Coalition for Adolescent Girls, Girls Count on February 11, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Are Creative and Inventive the Same Thing?
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Society for Quality, education, inventive, Jane Goodall, Jill Tarter, Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, STEM, Why So Few? on February 7, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
How do you know if you are inventive or an innovator — and whether you’re going to be the next Steve Jobs? Does labeling yourself really make a difference in which profession you go after? It might, at least according to a new — and disturbing — study that suggests a strong lack of interest [...]
More Than 25 Years of STEM in Circleville, Ohio
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Be WISE Camp, Circleville, Denison University, DuPont, Four J Properties, High School, National Chemistry Week, Ohio, PPG Industries, science labs on February 6, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Jane Sutton has been the science chair at the AAUW Circleville (OH) Branch since she launched the first countywide science fair in 1985. The event still takes place today — run by the county schools — and the branch continues to donate a prize to the winning high school student. In the 1990s, Sutton led [...]
Meeting Gathers Collegiate Women’s Leadership Program Directors
Posted in Educational Programs, NCCWSL, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Alfred University, education, Washington D.C., Women's Leadership Center on January 12, 2012, | 1 Comment »
On Friday, January 6, AAUW hosted 15 of the top names in collegiate women’s leadership programs in an effort to increase collaboration in this growing field. This group first met in December 2010 at Alfred University in New York at an event that was organized by Julia Overton-Healy, director of the school’s Women’s Leadership Center. [...]
Crossing the Line” Sparks Important Dialogue
Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Educational Programs, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, CNN, Crossing the Line, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, Daily Kos, Forbes, Huffington Post, Jezebel, Ms. Magazine, New York Times, Salon, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, Title IX, Washington Post on January 12, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW’s research report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School has certainly captured the attention of the media. The New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Ms. Magazine were just a few of the outlets that mentioned Crossing the Line and the dangerously normalized culture of sexual harassment in grades 7–12. AAUW [...]
Did You Miss the “Tweet-Up”?
Posted in AAUW in the News, Educational Programs, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged #T9Talk, AAUW, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, education, Homeroom, Office for Civil Rights, politics, Russlynn Ali, Secretary of Education, STEM, Title IX, Tweet-up, Washington D.C. on January 10, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday, AAUW hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali for a “tweet-up” (a meet-up on Twitter) to answer questions about Title IX. The online discussion was lively and informative — it drew more than 550 tweets in just three hours. Even an hour after [...]
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