America’s young people are pretty good at celebrating Valentine’s Day. Second graders exchange candy hearts and homemade cards, teens send each other roses in high school homerooms, and college students organize dates and girls’ nights to mark the holiday of love and friendship. In the midst of these celebrations, it’s easy to forget how many [...]
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Winter Break + Computer = Policy Reform
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Program in a Box, rape prevention, SAFER, sexual assault on campus on December 9, 2010, | 1 Comment »
College students, do you want to make a difference on your campus over winter break without even leaving your computer? Participate in SAFER’s (Students Active for Ending Rape) Winter Break Challenge and submit your campus’s sexual assault policy to their database. SAFER, an AAUW Community Action Grant recipient, is an amazing grassroots organization focused on [...]
Equity Issues in the News: April 1 – May 17
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged $tart $mart, Elana Kagan, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Nobel Prize, SAFER, Science and Math, STEM, Supreme Court on May 18, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
April 1 – May 17 AAUW’s Efforts to Close the Gender Divide in the STEM Fields Are Highlighted Washington Post (Monday, May 17) In her recent commentary, Elizabeth Vandenburg, the AAUW regional liaison to the Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative Project, highlights AAUW’s great work in encouraging, supporting and promoting girls’ involvement in science and math. She [...]
Campus Sexual Assault: A New Report and Project
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged center for public integrity, Community Action Grant, SAFER, sexual assault, sexual assault on campus on December 2, 2009, | 5 Comments »
During their college careers, 20 to 25 percent of women face sexual assault, and many campuses aren’t doing enough to keep students safe or offering them appropriate avenues for reporting the crime. This week the Center for Public Integrity released a report called “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice.” Staff at the [...]
Help SAFER Make College Campuses Safer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sexual Harassment, tagged Community Action Grants, contest, SAFER, sexual assault on September 4, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last year AAUW supported the amazing organization Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) through our Community Action Grants program. The grant helped SAFER develop the online College Sexual Assault Policies Database, which provides information about schools and their sexual assault policies and programs. The database gives students a chance to see examples of sexual assault [...]
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