Jean Macaluso, Membership Vice President
membership@aauwpa.org

AAUW-PA Opportunities for College and Graduate Students: Student Affiliations and Emerging Leader Internships

The document below has two purposes:

• To explain the two student affiliate programs, E-SAF and SAF, and their implementation (section  III); and
• To explain the Emerging Leader Intern (ELI) program and its implementation (section IV).

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COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PARTNERS

This program is a nationally sponsored program and provides significant advantages to partners and their students. For information and current partners, go to https://svc.aauw.org/join/value/aauw_cu.cfm

AAUW-PA Offers Scholarships to National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL)

A  scholarship is offered by the branches in the Philadelphia area to a woman either living in the Philadelphia area or enrolled in a college there. Use the AAUW-PA Scholarship form to apply.

The Board is encouraging branches, either by themselves or in cooperation with another branch, to cover travel costs for scholarship recipients. Contact GDBoose@gmail.com for information on how to do this. In addition, contributions to support general operating funds for the conference may be made online at http://www.aauw.org click Contribute; the Leadership Programs Fund number is 4339.

How about a branch scholarship for a student at a local university? This effort could be the first of many successful partnerships, leading perhaps to an Affiliate or a C/U partnership.

In 2009, more than 20 students from Pennsylvania universities and colleges or residing in Pennsylvania enjoyed learning skills that will last them a lifetime–let’s meet or exceed that number for 2010. See NCCWSL information at http://www.aauw.org/nccwsl

Note that C/U partners–those colleges and universities that are members of AAUW–receive 15% off the registration fees of 4 or more students. (See current list on http://www.aauw.org/About/join/value/colleges.cfm

Click on online directory of partner members in the middle of the page.)

AAUW and the WAGE Project Offer Smart Start in Negotiating That First Job

Why do women earn only $.77 of the male’s $1.00? Part of that answer is that many women do not know how to negotiate salary and benefits during their careers. The $tart $mart  program targets college women and helps them understand their positions of strength. Facilitating is a great opportunity for a branch project or for college/university faculty and staff.

For additional info, see the Keystoner, winter 2010, page 6 http://aauwpa.org/keystoner/KeystonerWinter2009.pdf

Campus Action Project 2009-10: Breaking through Barriers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teams

The 2009-10 Campus Action Project sponsored by national AAUW provides a platform to address some of the barriers girls and women face entering and staying in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Twelve teams from around the country were selected to implement projects based on recommendations from AAUW’s upcoming 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women and Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The selected teams engage in mentoring with girls ages K-12, round-tables and lectures for current college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students, and professional development and networking opportunities for girls and women of all ages.

Congratulations to our Pennsylvania winner! California University of Pennsylvania is a College/University Partner.

CSI: California, PA, Engaging and Inspiring Girls to Explore Their World
California University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

The AAUW Campus Action Project team at the California University of Pennsylvania will use a two-tier mentoring model to facilitate mentoring relationships between current science, technology, engineering, and math undergraduate students and female faculty and between current science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduate students and local middle school girls. The mentoring programs will focus on two after-school events for the middle school and college students, which will highlight science, technology, engineering, and mathematics topics through hands-on activities. Faculty members will help the college students plan and carry out the events and meet with them as part of a mentoring relationship. Later in the semester, the middle school students and their parents will come to the college campus for a culminating event.

AAUW-PA salutes its previous winners:

Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA–College Connections: A Partnership between Franklin & Marshall College and Columbia High School

University of Scranton, Scranton, PA–Women Open Doors

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA—Planning for an Economically Secure Future

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA—Changing the Campus Culture: a Multimedia Service Campaign to Stop Sexual Harrassment

As stated in the AAUW Charter and Bylaws, Article IV, Section 4: “An undergraduate student enrolled in a regionally accredited educational institution shall be eligible for student affiliation. Student affiliates shall be entitled to attend branch, state, and Association meetings and receive the publications distributed to all members of the Association. Affiliates may not vote nor hold office.”