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Clarkson joins AAUW college 'family,' joining SUNY Canton, SUNY Potsdam

Posted 3/28/11

POTSDAM -- Clarkson University has joined the AAUW college/university family, which includes SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam. AAUW's College/University Partner Member Program provides educational …

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Clarkson joins AAUW college 'family,' joining SUNY Canton, SUNY Potsdam

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POTSDAM -- Clarkson University has joined the AAUW college/university family, which includes SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam.

AAUW's College/University Partner Member Program provides educational institutions the opportunity to easily share all the benefits of AAUW with their students, faculty, and staff. Partners collaborate with branches on community programs, receive national visibility, and benefit from AAUW's powerful network that supports them and advocates on their behalf.

An AAUW college/university partner institution’s undergraduate students are immediately eligible for free e-student affiliate status. E-student affiliates receive electronic copies of AAUW's publications and research and have access to all AAUW's student affiliate benefits.

Later in March, AAUW is partnering with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) for a Science Discovery badge night for local Junior girl scouts. The scouts will get hands-on experience with science experiments and mentoring by the college women of SWE. AAUW is dedicated to making sure women and girls have plenty of exposure to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, since that is where many of the best opportunities are for good, high-wage jobs.

The St. Lawrence County Branch’s signature program for girls, Open Windows, has sent girls to Clarkson’s Horizon Program for many summers. Since 1989, the branch has supported educational enrichment grants for girls from St. Lawrence County to attend a summer camp. OW is supporting the girls scout badge night this year.

AAUW member Dr. Mary Graham, Associate Professor in the School of Business, has been instrumental in bringing the $tart $mart WAGE Project workshops to the North Country. She and Catherine Clark, Associate Vice President of the Student Success Center, wrote and received an AAUW Campus Action project grant to fund Negotiations U. in 2007.

In that program, a precursor to $tart $mart, women students researched, developed, and delivered salary negotiations training to their peers, focusing on gender issues in negotiations. Professor Graham was a featured workshop speaker on the WAGE Project at the 2009 AAUW National Convention, presenting with AAUW Public Policy Director Liza Maatz and the WAGE Project’s Annie Houle.

Dr. Graham has initiated two new $tart $mart workshops this spring. One will take place at SUNY Potsdam on April 7 from 4 to 7:30 p.m., another at North Country Community College on April 14 in Saranac Lake with Graham.

For more information about AAUW locally, contact President Lisa Wilson at 353-2513 or e-mail lwilson17@aol.com or Public Policy Chair Kathleen Stein at 386-3812 or kstein1@twcny.rr.com.