“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” These simple yet powerful words, spoken in 1995 by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in an unforgettable speech at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on [...]
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Women in History
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged African American, condoleeze rice, diplomacy, secretary of state, state department on March 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Condoleezza Rice served as the country’s chief diplomat as U.S. secretary of state — the first African American woman to hold the position.
On a Mission to Be Who I Am Destined to Be
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, civil rights movement, Condoleezza Rice, Josef Korbel, mentoring, mentors, NASPA, SAC, secretary of state, Sister Helen Prejean, Student Advisory Council, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Susan Sarandon on March 26, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
I recently attended the NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference in Chicago. This year’s theme was “Live the Legacy, Be the Movement.” The underlying purpose of the workshops and lectures was to motivate each attendee to be a change agent within her or his university as well as to be an important [...]
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