Miscellaneous

Announcing New On-line Journal devoted to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Check out the UW System's "Teaching Forum: A Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" that is now on line at: http://www.uwosh.edu/programs/teachingforum/public_html/ which includes several articles of interest to faculty in Womenís Studies and using feminist pedagogical approaches in their teaching.

Reaching-At-Risk Students website available
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Holly Hassel and English Lecturer, Joanne Giordano, both of UW-Marathon County, presented an OPID funded conference in June 2009 called Reaching-At-Risk Students. Their website offers information on the conference and will also serve as an ongoing resource for faculty and staff across the state of Wisconsin who work with students who are at-risk of not succeeding academically. Please check it out at http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/rars/index.htm

The 2009 Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute for women-of-color faculty and administrators will take place on December 2-6, 2009, at Coastline Community College in Costa Mesa, California. Please visit www.coastline.edu/divisions/president/kaleidoscope/ for more information.

Ms. in the Classroom
Beginning this fall, Ms. in the Classroom will be available online for your students at a special low rate. For more information including cost, go here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/t/9823/signUp.jsp?key=4454

The HerStory Scrapbook
http://www.herstoryscrapbook.com
This website focuses on the final four years of the womenís suffrage campaign in the United States as chronicled in the pages of The New York Times. Unlike much of the documentation from the suffragists who emphasized either the National American Woman Suffrage Association or the National Woman's Party, The New York Times reported on the women in both organizations. And, that makes our understanding much richer. Consider including the HerStory Scrapbook as a reference in your women's history or women's studies courses. The HerStory Scrapbook has been recommended by the National Women's History Project.

Gerri Gribi has donated her Women's Center Database to the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), with the stipulation that it will always be available free online. Go here to find it or to update it with new information http://www.nwsa.org/research/centerguide/

Spring 2009 MS Magazine and NWSA launched a Searchable Database Guide to Women's Studies Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD Programs. You can find it here: http://www.nwsa.org/research/theguide/index.php

The Feminist Majority Foundation has a listing of Global Women's Studies Programs:
http://www.feminist.org/Global/globalwst.asp Their listing of Global Women's Studies Programs with the information in local languages can be found at: http://www.feminist.org/global/wstlocal.asp

National Council for Research on Women Presents 2009 Award to New AAC&U Report on Womenís Progress in Higher Education
AAC&U was awarded the National Council for Research on Womenís (NCRW) Research and Scholarship Award for its recent report, A Measure of Equity: Womenís Progress in Higher Education. The award recognized AAC&U for ìoutstanding research and production of knowledge built on theoretical perspectives that advance understanding of the experiences of women and/or girls in society.î A Measure of Equity was written by Judy Touchton, with Caryn McTighe Musil and Kathryn Peltier Campbell. You can purchase a copy of the report on the AAC&U publications page on their website: http://www.aacu.org

Professing History Blog
A new blog on teaching Latin American history to college students, written by Dr. Rosa Maria Pegueros, Associate Professor, Department of History, and Women's Studies
University of Rhode Island
http://professinghistory.blogspot.com/2009/08/august-is-one-long-sunday-night.html

Cycling

Anew blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. re: Cycling is written by members of SMCR about all matters menstrual, especially sociocultural aspects of menstruation and new research about menstruation and women's health. Currently, the bloggersare Chris Bobel, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston; Giovanna Chesler, filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College; Chris Hitchcock, researcher at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research at the University of British Columbia; and Elizabeth Kissling, Professor of Women's Studies and of Communication at Eastern Washington University. The new blog can be found at the SMCR web site, http://www.MenstruationResearch.org/blog.

AAC&U Launches New Blog on Liberal Education
http://blog.aacu.org/
As part of its signature initiative, Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP), AAC&U has launched a new multi-authored blog that features postings and perspectives on liberal educationóhow it is changing, why it is so important in today's world, and what people are saying about it around the country and the world. With weekly commentary by Blog Contributing Editor Debra Humphreys, along with guest bloggers representing a variety of perspectives, the forum will introduce readers to issues in the news important to all those who care about liberal education and its future. Visit the blog sign up to receive postings via RSS, and add your perspectives to the expanding national dialogue on the future of higher education.

Liberal Education and America's Promise
Wisconsin Advocacy and Campus Action Initiative
Wisconsin was designated the first official partner state in the LEAP campaign in March 2005. In collaboration with AAC&U, leaders in Wisconsin have piloted a series of campus action and advocacy efforts that champion the value of a liberal education for all college students. An initiative of the University of Wisconsin System, LEAP in Wisconsin seeks to increase understanding of the value and purpose of liberal education for UW System students and Wisconsin citizens. Go here for more information: http://www.aacu.org/leap/wisconsin_initiative.cfm

Wisconsin Women and Economic Opportunity report was released recently by the Women's Council and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS).
It was developed following a report released earlier this year by the Institute for Women's Policy Research on the "Best and Worst State Economies for Women". IWPR urged their research partners in states to develop state specific reports and use them to update information on the economic status of women locally and to spread the word about the national findings of the IWPR report.
WWC/COWS report: http://womenscouncil.wi.gov/docview.asp?docid=10734&locid=2
IWPR Report: http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/R334_BWStateEconomies2006.pdf