AAUW NC News
June 8 – July 15, 2007
Please scan this list of “headlines” and if there’s something of interest, do read the full story. If these links are not “clickable” for you, go to https://www.aauwnc.org/headlines for another version of this list, or use the “search” in the upper right of https://www.aauwnc.org to go straight to the right article. [On any page, you can click an article title to get the page with just that article – may be more suitable for printing.]
Update on the Youth Advocacy Toolkit Project
- Information on the Young Advocates ToolKit project (07/15/2007) AAUW NC has been awarded a Public Policy Impact Grant that will be used in collaboration with NC Action for Children to work with local colleges to plan programs around the Action for Childrens Youth Advocacy Toolkit. Here is the information that Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo shared in Gastonia.
News from Phoenix that we shared in Gastonia
- Discussing the Historic Principles (07/15/2007) A few of our Historic Pinciples that were highlighted at the meeting
- Information on the www.aauw.org database (07/15/2007) Last fall, the member services database was launched at www.aauw.org. Nancy helped to publicize this in Phoenix.
- Report on NGCP workshop (07/15/2007) Kay White, president of AAUW Chapel Hill, attended the Association Convention in Phoenix, but was not able to be at our summer meeting. She did share a report on the National Girls Collaborative Project.
- NGCP – what can we do (07/13/2007) The message Nancy took from Phoenix was that the most important thing for branch members to do is to find the programs in our communities that are helping girls move towards science, technology, engineering and math and get them registered at http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/ngcp/directory/programs.cfm
- 2008-2009 EF Brochures are now available. (07/09/2007) One of the things we learned in Phoenix is that the 2008-2009 EF Fellowships and Grants brochures are now available. Go to Shop AAUW! then to branch necessities then to Brochures.
- Womens History Resource (07/15/2007) AAUW Thousand Oaks CA has published three volumes of Profiles of Women Past & Present.
- AAUW Public Policy Program 2007-2009 (07/04/2007) The discussion and adoption of the 2007-2009 AAUW Public Policy program was an excellent example of the interplay between the proposals of the committee members and the strong feelings of the delegates. For an excellent summary of the discussion, see Sandy Kirkpatricks summary on the CA Online Blog.
- Comments on the new structure (07/04/2007) AAUW is off on a new journey with a new, streamlined structure. See a CA Online Branch blog post by Sandy Kirkpatrick, the AAUW CA Online branch past president, for a good summary of the changes.
- AAUWNC receives grant for Advocacy Tool Kit Project (07/02/2007) I
- Picture of the delegation (06/30/2007) — a few folks were missing. More pictures to come.
- Hi, gang! (06/29/2007) — Nancy’s experiment with text messaging wasn’t 100% successful.
- Other news from Phoenix will be posted. All who attended are encouraged to contribute to the blog or e-mail their reports to Nancy.
Background and reports for the Gastonia meeting
- Reports for the July 14 meeting (07/12/2007) Agenda, meeting rules, list of board members
- Financial reports (07/12/2007) Draft FY07 summary and FY08 budget
- Minutes from the Spring Board Meeting (07/10/2007) – approved with one amendment
- Register now for the AAUW NC Summer Meeting (06/15/2007)
Public Policy Information
- Title IX Info (07/15/2007) While looking up something else, I found this website: www.titleIX.info. If your branch is planning a Title IX event, check it out for resources that complement the ones on www.aauw.org. The site is sponsored by the National Womens Law Center.
- GREAT INVESTMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION (07/11/2007) AAUW Celebrates Passage of Bill to Ease Student Loan Burden Bill is largest investment in higher education since the GI bill
Other information
- Business Meeting Minutes from Convention in April 2007 in Winston Salem (07/12/2007) Minutes from the AAUW NC 2007 Convention
- New versions of the Bylaws and Policies (06/27/2007) The AAUW NC Bylaws and Policies with the changes that were approved in April have been posted to www.aauwnc.org/00Documents.
- Updating records at AAUW (06/17/2007) Info on the new member services database
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- NGCP e-newsletter (07/09/2007) The July 2007 edition of the National Girls Collaborative Project has been e-mailed and should be posted soon: http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/ngcp/resources/newsletter.html Watch for details on a Tuesday, Sept. 18 kickoff meeting at the Science House at NCSU
- Any useful collaborations with NC E-Week? (07/08/2007) NC E-Week, nc-eweek.org, will be Feb 17-23, 2008. While that effort is gender neutral, the efforts to encourage K-12 students to interact with engineers may overlap with the goals of the NGCP project.
Do you want to get these messages in “real time” but don’t want to keep checking the web? You can use an “rss reader” to watch the announcements, but if you don’t want to make that leap, go to https://www.aauwnc.org and look for the “Get updates by e-mail” link in the “Join the Discussion” section near the bottom of the grey, right-hand column. Click that, then enter your e-mail address and click “Subscribe”, and you’ll get them as they are posted. We still do use the e-mail list, aauwnc-list@rtpnet.org, but more and more information is getting posted to the news system so that we don’t clutter your mailbox.
For an annotated list of announcements from AAUW, including notes on the newsletter EdEqChange, check https://www.aauwnc.org/news. You can also “subscribe” to that through RSS using the address http://www.bbvx.org/rss/whatsnewaauw.xml. [See https://www.aauwnc.org/a-gentle-introduction-to-rss/.]
If you’d like to add your branch news to this system, see this article. See also the branch websites with headlines from Asheville and Raleigh/Wake County: https://www.aauwnc.org/branch-news. If there are updates to the branch website addresses, please send them to me.
If you have comments or suggestions on this e-newsletter system, please let me know.