Orientation for PCSW Members

Join us in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library from 9:00 to 11:00 on August 25. Learn more about the history of the commission, gain further insight into member responsibility, and aid in planning for the coming year.

HERS Program Opportunity

Thanks to support from Sr. Vice Provost Ozzie Harris, the PCSW has
received funding to send a woman leader to the HERS—New England,
Management Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. HERS
is one of the premier leadership institutes for women in higher
education, and we are thrilled to extend Emory's relationship to this
nationally recognized program. Download and complete the HERS
application from the PCSW website
(www.pcsw.emory.edu/hers-announcement.htm) by August 15, 2008.

The winners of the 2008 PCSW Writing Awards are:

Gina Helfrich for “Being Human.” Gina is a fourth-year PhD student in philosophy in the Graduate School, a member of the PCSW Executive Committee, and a Graduate Fellow of the Center for Women at Emory.  
 
Shayne Seybold for “ ‘Young Venuses and Old Hags’: A Feminist Critique of the Media’s Portrayal of Aging Women.”  The paper was written for Contemporary Feminist Theory in fall 2007.
 
Honorable mention goes to:  
 
Wesley Barker for  “From Othered to Otherwise: Women Writing Theology.” Wesley is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion, Graduate School.  Her paper was written for a panel on women’s writing for the regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
 
Josey Bridges for “Sowing Seeds for Liberation in a Field Full of Land Mines:  Authority of Scripture in Postcolonial Contexts.” Josey is a second-year MDiv student at Candler School of Theology and is a Woodruff Fellow.

TAKE OUR DAUGHTERS TO WORK DAY

Forty sixth-graders from Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy came to Emory on April 17 in association with Take Our Daughters to Work Day. They were whisked off to classes in women's studies,
psychology, philosophy, business, biology and anatomy, nursing, and journalism. They observed the work of the Emory Police, Human Resources, Emory Creative Group, Marketing, Media Relations, Emory Alumni Association, the Comptrollers Office, and the Center for Women. Their principal told Sam Marie Engle, the lead organizer from University-Community Partnerships, that “the girls have been changed forever. For this day, and perhaps for future days,” she said, “they believed themselves to be capable of anything.”