We are proud to announce that AAUW @ CSUMB has been awarded the ICC Outstanding Club of the Year by the Student Org Awards! In addition to having our club name etched in a plaque in the Student Center, we have been awarded $300 to help fund future events. We also want to extend congratulations to the SCC Ladies’ Rugby team.
To learn how we got here, come to our Critical Planning Meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in Student Center room 120. Also, learn how you can get involved next year!
Campus can nominate 4 students to attend the National Collegiate… Women Student Leadership Conference (Maryland)
AAUW summer internships in public policy
After graduate, scholarships and fellowships post grad (6 international, many national) (Ex. Marie Curie got fellowships to get last bit of uranium for research); free one year and after pay $18.81
National Student Advisory Council (nominated by campus)
Young Women’s Task Force: betw student chapter and branch
15% discount on Princeton Review
Voter Registration Drive; collab with NAACP (May 23rd)
Smart Start (40 participants per session); interactive; how to negotiate for first salary; active workshop facilitated by Sharon; workbook; university can sign up for 3 year license ($1750)
Multiple workshops
Propose to ICC to help cover cost
One workshop: $650
Elect Her ($500): get women elected to campus positions and beyond
More women elected, more civil and more gets accomplished
Get stuff from Planned Parenthood to pass out along with our material
Create roster/contact info and exchange it
Mara continue Treasurer/volunteer things; schedule about the same; help club get bigger and out in the community
Marilyn (junior CS major) stay webmaster; maybe take on co position; community involvement/volunteer
Emily (1st ear envs) stay
Micaela (psych junior) current ICC rep; would like co-rep cause have trouble attending mtgs; want more people to come in; Planned Parenthood
Madison (1st yr business): demanding schedule; make it to more events/more involved; more volunteer opportunities/getting out in community
Ruby (1st communication design): help social media/webmaster; use social media as outreach to get more members; have own camera; do multimedia work; philanthropic work; video introducing club on website
Romy (1st yr business): connections to Planned Parenthood/volunteered with them before; sex ed advocate; co-rep community service; VP
Karina (senior hcom): continue being member; part of other similar groups (Empower Women of Color
Kierstin(hcom graduating spring 2017): in sorority Theta Alpha Sigma, community chair; would like to be President; have time; be able to help out
On AAUW website, page that says how you can make this work on your resume
Next year, be part of Title IX Advisory Board (quarterly mtg) and AS Sexual Assault Awareness Mtg (Mara/Romy)
Figure out meeting time over summer (Google Doc/Poll)
Possibly make it often so people can attend mtgs in case they miss one
Google Calendar
AAUW sponsor Equal Pay Day; can collab with branch; quarter taken out of cookie; men pay less for cookie than women; anything off campus do not have to deal with sodexo
ICC rep: issues with Sodexo
Beginning of semester: start off with no standing in ICC; be proactive to raise standing
Elizabeth will be part of alumni association so same email is valid
People who’ve had positions, write a description of what your position actually does
Mara knows someone who is going back to Afghanistan to build schools
Viewing of Malala’s movie
Can show The Hunting Ground unlimitedly b/c bought the rights
With Grace and Grit by Lilly Ledbetter
Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism by Ann Todd Jealous
AAUW has legal advocacy fund
More discussion events like Hey B*tch
As a group set up wants and needs of Char (advisor)
Guest speakers, learn interpersonal communication, learn group communication, how to collab with others esp men
Last month, it came to light how amongst the many problems our nations has with discrimination, one of the major problems is that for the second year in a row no people of color were nominated for any major acting role.
AAUW.org compiled a list of ways that you could help make a difference.
“5 Ways You Can Help Fix Hollywood’s Diversity Problem”
Use your consumer power
Actively support independent and women-led films
Call out bias!
Tackle your own unconscious bias
Learn the history of Hollywood’s diversity problem
It is important to stay aware and to make sure you support fellow women. For more info about the ways you can help, visit this link to AAUW’s original article
In honor of National Deaf History Month, we wanted to recognize a few organizations and women who have made an impact in the lives around them, and in history.
One of the most famous women in history who spent her whole life both deaf and blind. However, here deafness or blindness did not stop her from becoming a treasured humanitarian. “As an adult, she lobbied for programs for the prevention of blindness, laws for the education and protection of the blind and deafblind, as well as state-assisted programs to help people with disabilities with job training and placement.” (x)
Rosa Lee is a performance artist known mostly for her ASL Music Videos on YouTube, her work as a solo performer in The Rosa Lee Show, the managing editor of KISSFIST Magazine, and as a lead actor in ASL Films’s feature film Versa Effect. (x)
A cultural icon for the deaf and hard of hearing in Japan. She was able to overcome many barriers to deafness in Japan to the benefit of many. Founder of WE (the World Exchange of Culture project)
Because she was an expert lip-reader, she became the first deaf person to work as an undercover specialist in an elite surveillance team for the FBI.
In 1990, Sue wrote her autobiography Silent Night which became the bases for a the TV series Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.
From 2002-2005, the TV series ran for five season – a series mainly based on her experiences working for the FBI. The role of Sue was portrayed by deaf actress Deanne Bray.
The deaf American actress know for her role as Linda the Librarian on the PBS children’s television show Sesame Street from 1971 – 2003.
Deaf Women United (DWU)
Let’s not forget about the women with DWU. The organization was started by pioneers of the Deaf women movement in 1984: “CB” Buchholz, Allie Joiner, Marsha Kessler-Nowak, Sheila Conlon-Mentkowski, Betty G. Miller, Sandra Ammons-Rasmus and Gwen Speakes. The objective for the organization as to provide tools, information, communal support, personal growth, and empowerment.
You could check out their website here: link to check out more information and to see how you could get involved. DWU is also one of the many organizations you could donate to whenever you make a purchase with AmazonSmile.
Hey Everyone! Don’t miss the opportunity to view this powerful, illuminating documentary regarding sexual assault on college campuses. Brought to you by theSexual Assault Awareness Committee.
We did it!! AAUW AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, MONTEREY BAY is now recognized as a Student Organization of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to promote its mission and policies. AAUW hereby confers upon it all the rights, privileges, and obligations as embodied in the AAUW bylaws.
The American Association of University Women at CSUMB 
