The purpose of AAUW is to advance equity for all women and girls through
advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
AAUW's mission is to advance
equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.
2010 AAUW FLORIDA CONVENTION RESULTS
PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOP:
Branch presidents and others discussed a variety of AAUW programs including
those that are readily available as programs in a box that would be appropriate
for a statewide undertaking. The group selected two
program initiatives for AAUW Florida and its branches for fiscal year 2010-2011
These are STEM and Pay Equity. All branches who have already had such a
program are strongly encouraged to submit the particulars about their program to
the AAUW Florida Web Manager so they
can be listed on this website for other branches to learn about. Branches
wishing to emulate one of these programs should get in touch with the contact
person for that program. The submission form will be available on the
website forms page very soon.
The state board created a fund that will
be used to help branches finance the STEM or Pay Equity programs they decide to
undertake. The application form to apply for these funds will be available
before the end of the summer. The amount of funding each branch may apply for
will be limited to give as many branches as possible an opportunity to receive
funding for their project. It's definitely time to start planning your program:
what you will do, who your target audience will be, where you will hold it, what
you hope to accomplish and how you will do it, etc.
The bylaws proposal to officially change our name to AAUW Florida from Florida-AAUW was approved. The proposal to allow all of those attending a state convention who were paid members of AAUW Florida to vote at a state convention was soundly defeated.
We were fortunate to have some interesting speakers in
attendance at our convention. They included: Valerie Connors who told us
about her experience at the NCCWSL Conference and how it inspired her to conduct
a STEM workshop for middle school girls on the campus of USF Manatee/Sarasota
last year. The second and much larger one will take place on May 22, 2010
on the same campus. Dr. Jamie J. Ladge, a contributing author of the Shriver
Report, A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, discussed some of
the findings of this widely publicized and read report.
Dr. Leslie Sue Lieberman, founding Director of the Women's Research Center at
USF, discussed female students' perception of what engineers did and projects
they worked on and ways that perception could be changed. Krys Wulff, a director-at-large on the AAUW Board,
brought us up to date on AAUW activities that have taken place since the
restructuring of AAUW following the AAUW Convention late last June. All of
them were most informative and interesting.
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Our speaker for the AAUW Funds Breakfast on Sunday morning was Juddy Karei, an AAUW International Fellow from Kenya. She is
majoring in Religious Studies at the Asbury Theological Seminary in Orlando.
Juddy explained why she feels so strongly that education plays a critical role in women's lives. She
plans to return to Kenya when her studies at the Seminary are completed to
continue teaching at Discipleship College and work to improve women's lives
through education and by working with her church.