CEW presents: CHRISTINE MARY MCGINLEY
A reading from her literary mosaic

THE WORDS OF A WOMAN, FRIDAY, MAY 9,
7:00 - 8:30 pm

Join us for an inspiring evening at the Downtown Library on Friday, May 9 as Michigan native and author Christine Mary McGinley presents a reading of her one-woman monologue The Words of a Woman. This event, which will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room, will take place from 7:00 to 8:30 pm and is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the LS&A Women's Studies Department and the Ann Arbor District Library.

The Words of a Woman is a literary mosaic and one-woman monologue, composed entirely of excerpts from the written works of more than fifty exceptional women from literature and history. It is an exploration of the female voice in literature and in the world — a moving meditation on life, love, learning, and the art of writing.  Ms. McGinley will read the monologue, reflect on the process of creating the work, and answer questions and share with the audience.

Christine Mary McGinley worked for many years in a number of states as executive director and fundraiser for arts and humanities organizations—including as Director of Development for the U-M Library from 1992 through 1997. This work, The Words of a Woman, completed in Ann Arbor in 1997, inspired her to pursue her lifelong dream of writing full time, which she has done for the years since. She describes her work as passionate advocacy for Human Rights and Social Justice in all of their complexities and for the arts and humanities as societal imperatives.

Artists, thinkers and writers represented in the piece include:  Anna Akhmatova, Hannah Arendt, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jane Austen,  Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Cather, Marie Curie, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Isadora Duncan, George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Alice James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Doris Lessing, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Katherine Mansfield, Beryl Markham, Florence Nightingale, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Ayn Rand, George Sand, Sappho, May Sarton, Olive Schreiner, Mary Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Jeanne de Vietinghoff, Alice Walker, Simone Weil, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Yourcenar. Registration recommended but not required. Register now online or call 734.764.6005

 

UM Alumnae Council Supports CEW's Outreach Program for Community College Students

The University of Michigan Alumnae Council has selected the Center for the Education of Women to be the recipient of its annual Birthday Greeting Award for 2008.  CEW staff members Kirsten Elling,  Aimee Cox and Carol Hollenshead presented Supporting Non-Traditional Student Success for a Diverse U-M to the Birthday Greeting Committee this past March, and we are delighted and grateful that it was honored as the winning proposal. (For more information about this program.)

 

Crossing Boundaries Conference Examines University/Community Collaborations

A group of over 100 community agency staff and community activists, university faculty, researchers, staff and students gathered at the UM’s Detroit Center on March 28th to examine University-community collaborations.  The Crossing Boundaries conference addressed three questions: What makes successful university-community collaborations? What is the impact of taking gender into account while addressing problems associated with race, poverty and urban development? and How can universities, community organizations and foundations best work together to promote change in southeast Michigan?  The conference was presented by the UM Center for the Education of Women with sponsorship UM’s Arts of Citizenship, the Ginsberg Center for Community and Service Learning, and National Center for Institutional Diversity.   Emphasizing the importance of developing successful joint projects with outcomes that serve all interested parties,  this conference was one step in the University’s outreach efforts focused on collaboration with community partners in Detroit and other Michigan neighborhoods.

Read about the conference speakers and planners.

 

New Study Finds Michigan Economy Threatened by Lack of Women in Science and Technology

"Michigan Women and the High-Tech Knowledge Economy," a new paper by Susan Kaufmann, CEW Associate Director for Advocacy, explores how well women in Michigan and the U.S. are preparing to take their places in the developing high-tech knowledge economy. Women's low representation in the physical sciences, engineering and computer science and technology threatens to derail Michigan's goal of greatly increasing the educational attainment of state residents in those fields. This paper explores barriers girls and women experience while outlining actions that state and federal government, local school boards, colleges and universities, and Michigan families can take to ensure that women take their full place in the highly-trained workforce that Michigan needs to be an innovative competitor in the global economy. Read more.

 

New data on non tenure track faculty in the U.S.
The Dual Ladder in Higher Education - Research, Resources, and the Academic Workforce Dual Ladder Clearinghouse, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is a three year grant examining how non tenure track faculty are affected by the “dual ladder” in higher education.

CEW presents preliminary findings and analyses based on our 2005 survey regarding institutional policies and practices concerning full and part time instructional faculty in non tenure track positions.  The online survey asked administrators to provide information on non tenure track faculty at their institutions, including their utilization, their working conditions, benefits and compensation, and mobility between tenure track and non tenure track positions.

Key findings of Non Tenure Track Faculty: The Landscape at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education include the expectation that use of non tenure track faculty will increase more slowly than the literature might indicate, that although the terms “part time” and “non tenure track” are often used interchangeably nearly half of non tenure track faculty are employed full-time, and that mobility between non tenure track and tenure track positions varies a great deal by type of institution, and that the presence of a faculty union makes a sizeable difference to the frequency with which benefits are offered to non tenure track faculty.

The Executive Summary includes key findings along with methodology and background.

The full report, Non Tenure Track Faculty:  The Landscape at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education, includes the Executive Summary as well as tables and charts reporting analysis of the
survey data. Read more.

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Designing and Implementing Family-Friendly Policies in Higher Education Now Available

Designing and Implementing Family-Friendly Policies in Higher Education, a newly-released publication from CEW’s Sloan-funded project on the academic workforce is now available from CEW.  This publication offers suggestions for creating effective, flexible policies at institutions of higher education and includes specific examples from various colleges and universities.  Download this report. Thanks to generous funding from the Sloan Foundation, you may request printed copies of this publication at no charge.  Please email us at acadclearinghouse@umich.edu

 

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