The Winter issue of the AAUW NC newsletter, the Tar Heel News, has gone to press. This is a limited edition that will be mailed to branch and state leaders, but all are welcome to the electronic copy.
This issue has important information on the 2008 convention, notes on national priorities and how the states/branches can help further those goals, and more.
Information from NC Women United, including a link to an op-ed piece on funding for abstinence-only sex education, a link to the NC NOW reproductive rights signature ad, and information on a Charlotte/Mecklenburg Women’s Summit.
Learn about the grants that AAUW NC can provide to branches and members.
Pat from FairerScience.Org will be on a panel at the second annual Science Blogging Conference, here in RTP on Jan. 19.
For more on the conference see www.scienceblogging.com — and while you’re there contemplate what an AAUW meeting would look like if run as an “un-conferenceâ€.
Eleanora E. Tate, the author of Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance, received the AAUW Juvenile Literature Award at a the meeting of the NC Literary and Historical Society in Asheville on Saturday, Nov. 10.
Updates from AAUW
Summary of AAUW NC posts, Nov. 1 – Nov. 12, 2007
The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund has announced support for Melissa Jennings, former soccer player, in her sexual harassment suit against UNC Chapel Hill.
AAUW’s initial participation in Facebook.
Information on the 2007-2008 Educational Foundation fellows in North Carolina, and the fellows across the country who are supported by endowments raised by AAUW NC members.