Letter from the Chair

An AERA Special Interest Group

Research on Women and Education

EDITOR: Catherine E. Hackney, Ph.D. * PUBLISHER: Heather Wasler * Ursuline College * School of Graduate Studies 2550 Lander Road, Pepper Pike, OH 44124 * (440) 646-8120 * Fax: (440) 684-6088 * E-Mail: chackney@ursuline.edu

RWE SIG American Education Research Association, June, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 3

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Change in Distribution Procedure for the RWE Newsletter

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If you have moved, please contact Heather Wasler with updated information to ensure that you’ll receive uninterrupted issues of the newsletter.

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Administration &

Leadership

Teacher Educators

& Teachers

Parents &

Families

Curriculum &

Pedagogy

Students &

Learners

Policy &

Practice

Research on Women and Education

(RWE)

RWE Mission:

The RWE SIG was established in 1973 and has two purposes. One is to pro-vide a structure within AERA for the promotion of research concerning women and girls in education. The second is to provide a mechanism to facilitate communication among re-searchers and practitioners who are concerned about women in education at the intersection of race, class, gen-der and culture.

Hello to My Dear Friends and Colleagues! What a feeling I have inside of me. Thanks to Evelyn Reid, Past Chair, for all her encour-agement and guidance with so many obstacles this past year. It does not seem like very long ago that I met her and so many of you at the RWE annual conference in Birmingham, Alabama. I was new to the group and felt a little out of place. I did not see many dark skinned female faces but yet the climate of the group was very friendly. At first I could not understand why. I had attended a few other conferences as a new faculty member in higher education and they were so large that I just went to sessions and did not really get to meet anyone new. However, the RWE annual conference was different. It focused on issues that I felt strongly about and it in-cluded professional women who presented information on these critical issues and provided time for discussions. I was really just in awe of being around so many “smart women.” Then I realized that I had the same feeling whenever I attended one of my sorority’s na-tional meetings. I have been an active member of Zeta Phi Beta So-rority, Inc. for a very long time and the feeling I get when I am with all of these educated Black Women is very similar. It is just a feel-ing that another woman gets when she is around educated women. The other characteristics seem secondary (age, ethnicity, etc.). At least that is my opinion.

Women share a bond. Think about motherhood. Isn’t there some-thing about motherhood that just says those characteristics belong to women? Anyway, here I am serving as your Chair for 2002-2003 and excited about the 28th Annual Conference coming to New Or-leans. How in the world did this happen to me? All I can say is the same thing I say to my sorority sisters. I am where I am because of the mentoring done by so many of you. I can remember almost eve-ryone I met in Montgomery by name. Doesn’t that tell us some-thing about our organization?

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Chair Rosalind Hale Xavier University Division of Teacher Education Box 59A 7325 Palmetto St. New Orleans, LA 70125-1098 W: 504-483-7536 Fax: 504-485-7909 Email: rhale@xula.edu

Past Chair Evelyn Reid Morgan State University Home: 5221 Tabard Court Baltimore, MD 21212 H: 410-532-6222 Fax: 410-319-4078 Email: userre2675@aol.com

Chair-elect Barbara Thayer-Bacon University of Tennessee College of Education 1914 Andy Holt Ave., HPER 330 Knoxville, TN 37996 W: 856-974-9505 Email: bthayer@utk.edu

Treasurer-elect Lynne Cavazos Coordinator, Credential Program Graduate School of Education Teacher Education, 2504 Phelps Hall University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-5356 Fax: 805-893-8736 Email: cavazos@education.ucsb.edu

Membership Charlotte Harris Department of Teacher Education Wright State University 313 Allyn Hall 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway Dayton, OH 45435-0001 W: 937-775-3285 Fax: 937-775-3308 Email: charlotte.harris@wright.edu

Co-Chair Lynne Cavazos Coordinator, Credential Program Graduate School of Education Teacher Education, 2504 Phelps Hall University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-5356 Fax: 805-893-8736 cavazos@education.ucsb.edu

Recorder Julie Bianchini Assistant Professor, Science of Education Department of Education University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: 805-893-4110 Fax: 805-893-7264 jbianchi@education.ucsb.edu

Membership Seeking New Board Member

RWE SIG Board Members 2001-2002 Recorder Pamela LePage-Lees 158 Crestmont Dr. Oakland, CA 94619 H: 510-530-8312 Email: plepage@stanford.edu

Recorder Web-Host elect Maria Ferreira Wayne State University College of Education Room 279 Detroit, MI 48202 Email: mferreira@wayne.edu

Newsletter Catherine Hackney Ursuline College 2550 Lander Road Pepper Pike, OH 44124 W: 440-646-8120 Fax: 440-684-6088 Email: chackney@ursuline.edu

Diversity Task Force Pyllis K. Abell 139 Brackett Rd. Portsmouth, NH 03801 603-431-8644 Email: pkabell@nh.ultranet.com

Member-at-large Diana Moyer University of Tennessee Cultural Studies of Education 338 HPER Bldg. Knoxville, TN 37996-2700 W: (865) 974-8438 Fax: (865) 974-8981 Email: dmoyer@utk.edu

WOMEN EDUCATORS BOARD Action for Women and Education

Co-Chair Kathleen S. Sernak Department of Ed. Leadership Robinson Hall Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028 W: 856-256-3808 Fax: 856-256-4918 sernak@rowan.edu

Treasurer Paula Lane School of Education CB#3500, Peabody Hall The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 W: 919-962-9376 pjlane@email.unc.edu

Awards Seeking New Board Member

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Maenette K.P. Benham, Chair (2001-2003) Michigan State University College of Education 419A Erickson Hall E. Lansing, MI 48824 517-355-6613; F: 517-353-6393 mbenham@msu.edu

Stacy Blake-Beard (2000-2003) Graduate School of Education Harvard University 452 Gutman Library Cambridge, MA 02139 617-496-4810 stacy_blake-beard@harvard.edu

Elizabeth Fennema (2001-2004) Education Building 1000 Bascom Mall University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 608-265-2880 efennema@facstaff.wise.edu

Alison Imbens-Bailey (2000-2003) UCLA Department of Education Box 951521 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 310-825-1731 aimbens@ucla.edu

Kathryn Herr (2001-2002) University of New Mexico College of Education Hokona 203 Albuquerque, NM 87131 505-277-5956; F: 505-277-8362 kherr@unm.edu

Dolores Perin (2000-2003) Teachers College Columbia University Box 70, 525 W. 120th St. New York, NY 10027 212-678-3943; F: 212-678-4048 dp111@columbia.edu

David Sadker (2001-2004) School of Education American University McKinley Hall, 109 Washington, DC 20016 301-229-8483; F: 310-229-5823 dsadker@aol.com

AERA Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity, SAGE (formerly Committee on Role and Status of Women in Educational Research and Development)

Key Contact Directory

Letter from the Chair continued from page 1... Anytime a newcomer can be made to feel at home says our organization is really doing something right. Not only was I mentored to become Chair, I was mentored to publish and to present at other national conferences. I was valued.

This is why I really want the PAST CHAIRS and other women who have been recognized by our organizations to come to the RWE 28th Annual Con-ference in New Orleans. Let’s take this time to say thanks to those women who have taken the time to mentor us. This means the young, the old, the still employed, as well as the retired. Come to New Orleans and help us to celebrate Women in Education: A Unique Culture. At the closing luncheon we would like to acknowledge those women present who have served as Chairs of RWE and WE and those who have been recognized in some capac-ity, either by RWE or Women Educators.

If you are in one of these categories and plan to attend the conference, email me at rhale@xula.edu. We will have a special nametag for you to signify how much we appreciate what you have done for RWE, WE and for all of the members. We will also have special seating areas for you at our meal functions. If you know of someone who is in one of these categories, contact her and encourage her to come this year. I am looking forward to a great conference in New Orleans where we will take the time to celebrate and give thanks to those who paved the way before us.

Take Care, Rosalind Pijeaux Hale, RWE Chair 2002-2003

Call for Nominations

Willystine Goodsell Award

The AERA Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity, SAGE (formerly Committee on Role and Status of Women), the SIG: Research on Women and Education, and Women Educators solicit nomi-nations for the AERA Willys-tine Goodsell Award , given annually to recognize an educa-tor at any career stage who has made an important contriub-tions to AERA through scholar-ship, activism, and community building on behalf of women, girls, and education.

The award will be presented at the 2003 AERA meeting in Chi-cago, at the Willystine Goodsell Award Reception.

Deadline for nominations is November 1, 2002. Please send three copies of letters of nomi-nation and nominee’s resume to:

Dr. Alison Bailey, Dept. of Education, Box 951521, UCLA,

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Submit proposals, preferably via e -mail attachment, by July 15, 2002 to:

Paula Lane pjlane@email.unc.edu School of Education CB#3500, Peabody Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500

Accepted presenters will receive specific in-formation about preparing their final papers for inclusion in the Conference Proceeding via e-mail.

REMINDER! Proposals that were accepted for last year’s Fall conference and were not sub-mitted for inclusion in the upcoming edition of Advancing Women can be presented at this year’s conference in New Orleans. Presenters should send an e-mail directly to Rosalind P. Hale, Chair-elect (rhale@xula.edu) if they are planning to present. New acceptance letters will be mailed to these presenters.

RWE Proposal Writing Guidelines

If all eight items are not included in the proposal, the proposal will not be reviewed.

Please indicate the following information in 1000 words (2-3 pages).:

1. Fifty word abstract (not included in the 1000 words). Example: In this paper session, the researchers will share the findings of a two-year qualitative study on women’s equity issues in college athletics. Fifty male and fifty female ath-letic directors at major universities were interviewed to determine...

2. Presentation Format: Please put into your proposal your first, second, and third choice of presentation format. ___ Paper Presentation (typically 20 minute presentation/questions at the end of the session; possible discussant; papers are requested to be distributed) ___ Discussion (may provide key information and request audience to respond; 30 minutes to 1 hour; discussion also may be conducted during lunch sessions; papers for the basis of the discussion are requested to be distributed) ___ Performance (Readers theatre; Dance; Play, etc; generally 30 minutes to 1 hour) ___ Roundtable (Small and focused discussion among 8-10 participants for extended period approximately 40 minutes; papers are requested to be distributed) ___ Symposium (3-4 papers organized by the presenters as one proposal; papers are linked in some way; some topic; same research project; 1 hour – 1.5 hours) ___ Poster Session (Research is displayed on poster(s) and presenter provides a paper and individual discussion of the research to participants who come by the poster to review the work)

Reviewers will agree to the type of presentation or will suggest another format. The conference coordinator has the right to alter the format to meet the needs of the conference session types and/or times.

3. Stage of Development: Please relate if the research is in progress, or if the research has been completed. Working papers or completed papers are requested to be shared at the sessions with the participants.

4. Objectives: Please express objectives on terms of your overall message: What do you want your audience to walk away with from your presentation (e.g., what you expect them to learn or them to gain in terms of new sensitivity? Reviewers will score this as 1-5: Reasonable-Unreasonable)

5. Theoretical Framework: Please explain the basis for your research/work. (Reviewers will score this as 1-5 Appropriate – Inappropriate)

6. Data Sources: What are the sources of information/data for your work? (Reviewers will score this as 1-5: Appropriate – Inappropriate)

7. Research Questions/Methods: If research questions are ap-propriate to your research, please list them. Additionally, report the type of research methodology your work relies on: qualitative, quantitative, mixed methodology, or other sources of information? Be specific as to the type of statistical test and/or research strategy(ies)used. (Reviewers will score this as 1 - 5: Appropriate-Inappropriate)

8. Relevance/Importance to Research on Women and Educa-tion SIG: Please review the mission statement and relate what aspects of your research would be especially relevant or important to RWE-SIG members. (Reviewers will score this as 1-5: Appropriate – Inappropriate)

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REGISTRATION FORM – PLEASE PRINT Annual Fall Conference - Research on Women and Education

(A Special Interest Group of AERA) 28th Annual Conference - October 24 – 26, 2002

Conference Theme - Women in Education: A Unique Culture Radisson Hotel – 1500 Canal Street - New Orleans, LA

Hosted By: Xavier University of Louisiana

First Name _________________________ Last Name________________________________ Title _______ Affiliation ________________________________________________________________________________ Street/Mailing Address _____________________________________________________________________ City ____________________________________ State ________________ Zip Code __________________ Email _____________________________ Phone ______________________ FAX ____________________ Registration Fees: Mail Form To: (Postmarked By) By 9/24/02 After 9/24/02 Full Conference $160 $175 Dr. Adrian Woods * Student Full $100 $125 Associate Director, Financ ial Aid * One Day Only Fees Part Time Assistant Professor * Thursday $70 $80 Xavier University of La (Includes snacks and reception) One Drexel Drive * Friday $80 $90 Campus Box 40A (Includes snacks and lunch) New Orleans, La 70125 * Saturday $80 $90 (Includes snacks and lunch) MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: XULA – Division of Education ___ Check if you are a newcomer. WELCOME! ___ Check if you would like to share a room with someone. ___ Check if you are donating money $_____ to support a student scholarship. Tax deductible when checks are made payable to Women Educators, a 501c 3 organization. ___ Check if you have dietary restrictions (please specify)______________________________ ___ Check if you have special needs (please specify)__________________________________ YOUR FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INCLUDES ALL CONFERENCE MATERIALS, SPEAK-ERS, SNACKS, THURSDAY EVENING RECEPTION, AND FRIDAY AND SATURDAY LUNCHEONS. REGISTER BEFORE 9/24/02 FOR THE EARLY RATE!

ACCOMMODATIONS Make your room reservations by 9/23/02 directly with the Radisson Hotel and indicate you are with the Re-search on Women and Education Conference. Room rates are: $109 -single and double, $129-triple and $139 quad plus 12% tax and $2.00 per night Convention Center tax. Rates will be honored three days after the con-ference dates. Call (504) 522-3627 or 1-800- 333-3333 to secure a room. There is a $10 one-way shuttle to the hotel from the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport.

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Women & Leadership: Creating Balance in Your Personal and Professional World Pre-conference to Research on Women and Education 27th Annual Conference

October 24-26, 2002

Call for Presentation Proposals

National Conference Radisson Hotel New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana October 22-24, 2002

The purpose of this Women and Leadership Conference is to allow mid and executive level professional women to come together to enhance their leadership skills and to learn more about how to create balance between their personal and professional lives. Further-ing the purpose of the conference are the following objectives: to develop leadership skills to master your environment; to learn to create balance in your life; to learn to use stress productively in your life; and to take care of yourself at home and at work. Topics to be covered by presenters from business, government, education, law enforcement, and medicine are: 1. Leadership Skills 2. Dynamics to Cross Gender Communication 3. Self-Care Techniques 4. How to Create Balance in Your Life 5. Ethics in the Workplace

6. Managing Your Career 7. Emotional Survival

Concurrent sessions should focus on these or related topics. Please submit the following for consideration for a concurrent session at the Women & Leadership National Conference. Concurrent Sessions will be 1.5 hours. You may submit more than one proposal. I. Title of Session II. Objectives of the Session III. A 50 word description of the Presentation IV. Name, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Phone, Fax Number and e-mail address of Presenter/Presenters Proposal Deadline: July 12, 2002 *Presenter registration fee is $75 (conference fee $150). This fee includes all conference keynotes, breakout sessions, continental breakfast, afternoon breaks, and reception. Submit Proposals to: Marian Fletcher, Continuing Education Coordinator Attn: Women and Leadership Conference Sam Houston State University, P. O. Box 2477 Huntsville, Texas 77341-2477 If there are further questions, please contact Marian Fletcher at 936-294-3869. This conference is co-sponsored by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and Sam Houston State University’s Departments of Continuing Education, Institute for Law Enforcement Training, Law Enforcement Training Institute of Texas and Educational Leadership and Counseling. If you are interested in registering for the conference only, call our office ad 936-294-4568 or e-mail us to be placed on our brochure mailing list at exl_mep@shsu.edu.

Sam Houston State University A Member of The Texas State University System / An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution

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SELMA GREENBERG DISSERTATION CALL Eligibility Requirements:

1. Author must be a member of the Research on Women and Education or Women Educator Groups. 2. Dissertation must have been completed during the two previous years. For instance, if you are submitting

work for the year 2002, the project must have been completed during or after the summer term of 2000. Submission Requirements: Dissertation must be submitted to the Outstanding Dissertation Chairperson:

Diana Moyer, University of Tennessee, Cultural Studies of Education, 338 HPER Bldg., Knoxville, TN 37996-2700 Fax: (865) 974-8981; Email: dmoyer@utk.edu

Deadline: Deadline for submission is July 30, 2002.

Submission: The author must submit the following:

a) A nominating letter from the author’s dissertation chair, major professor, or committee member (who does not have to be a member of RWE or WE).

b) The author’s vitae or resume. c) One copy of the dissertation with the author’s name, title, institutional affiliation, address, fax, phone, and

e-mail (only an unbound or loose copy will be accepted). d) Submit a separate cover with the title of the dissertation only. This is to allow for blind review. e) Attach a 1-2 page essay to the dissertation that includes: why you feel this project fits the award criteria

and directly connects to the introductory statement describing Selma Greenberg’s work, how you came to this topic, th e date of your oral exam, any on-going work (derived from your dissertation) in which you are currently engaged, potential research and service, and/or practical work that might extend the disser-tation.

Review Procedures:

1. The dissertation author will receive confirmation acknowledging the receipt of the dissertation and all re-quired attachments (we strongly suggest that you request mail card in order to determine that your sub-mission was received).

2. The review process is a two-tier procedure: a) Initial Review: The dissertation will be blind reviewed by three (3) outstanding scholar-

researchers, members of RWE and/or WE. Each reviewer will utilize the following criteria for her/his decisions: the significance of the topic (to the field it represents), theoretical framework underlying the work, the appropriateness of the methodology used, the nature of the findings, the caliber of the writing, and evidence of on-going work or potential for extended work.

b) Final Review: The five (5) dissertations receiving the highest composite review (or all papers if fewer than five are submitted) will then be reviewed by members of the Distinguished Disserta-tion Award Committee.

3. The Chair of the Selection Committee will ensure that each paper submitted will receive a minimum of three (3) blind reviews during the Initial and Final Reviews.

Final Reviews:

1. The paper determined to be most distinguished at the conclusion of the two-tier process will be nominated and recognized at the RWE Annual Mid-Year Meeting. The distinguished recipient will be highlighted at the Annual AERA Spring Conference.

2. An abstract of the winning dissertation will be published in the SIG/RWE Newsletter. If you know some-one who is eligible and deserving of this award, please pass this information along to them. If they are not a member of the SIG, please invite them to join in our Fall Conference and learn about us. Please encour-age your faculty, graduate students, and non-academic colleagues to get the word out.

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AERA SIG/RWE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING AERA New Orleans, 2002

I. Welcoming Remarks: Evelyn Reid, Chair Evelyn introduced the members of the board, explained why the fall 2001 conference was cancelled (due to

the low number of papers submitted and small number of registrants) and distributed the program. She en-couraged members to submit papers for the upcoming fall 2002 conference.

II. Report Summaries from Board Members

Treasurer’s Report – Lynne Cavazos: As of March 02, the balance is $9,902.99. Membership Report – Charlotte Mathews-Harris: Pointed out that membership dues are now collected through AERA and reminded members of the importance of membership in getting presentation slots at AERA (especially important in facilitating young scholars presentations at AERA). Newsletter Report – Catherine Hackney: Members were encouraged to write down their updated email to facilitate electronic distribution of the newsletter, which was done (with great success) for the past two is-sues. Recorder Report and Web Site – Pamela LePage-Lee: Pamela is in the process of finding a permanent site for the SIG’s website, which in the past has changed address according to the address of the recorder. A perma-nent site would prevent this from occurring. Diversity Task Force Report – Kathleen Sernak: Kathleen stressed the need to move beyond tolerance and examine how we will live in the 21st Century and what actions we will take. Past Chair Report on AERA 2002 Conference – Janice Koch spoke for Beverly Irby who was unable to be pre-sent due to a family emergency. Janice stressed once again the importance of membership in determining the number of presentation slots available for members’ presentations. Janice pointed out that 52 papers had been submitted for 4 paper slots and 14 round tables. In the end 32 individual papers were accepted because we used some slots from other groups such as the Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education.

III. Chair-Elect Report – Rosalind Hale

Rosalind recognized past chairs and solicited nominations for the RWE Board regarding the following posi-tions:

· Member-at-large · Treasurer-Elect · Diversity Taskforce · Chair Elect

Ballots were passed out, but no new nominations we put forth for any of the listed positions. A motion was made to close nominations for each individual position and the following board members were accepted by acclamation:

· Chair Elect: Barbara Thayer-Bacon – U. of TN · Treasurer-Elect: Lynne Cavazos – U. C. Santa Barbara (current treasurer) · Diversity Taskforce: Phyllis Abell – U. of New Hampshire · Member-at- large (to be appointed)

Nominees: Diana Moyer (U. of TN) and Kathleen Sernak (Rowan U) The Chair-Elect closed her presentation by encouraging everyone to submit proposals for the fall 2002 conference while inviting them to a “Mardi Gras in the fall.” IV. 2002 Selma Greenberg Outstanding Dissertation Award - Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Member-at-large: This

year’s award was given to Ellen W. Eckman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Urban Education, Admin-istrative Leadership; Major Professor: Gail Schneider. Dissertation Title: “The High School Principalship: A Woman’s Perspective.” Dr. Eckman’s dissertation explores the challenges that women face in becoming and serving as principals in public high schools.

(The Women Educators took the floor and their report was followed by the Willystine Goodsell Address given by Dr. Judith Glazer-Ramo, which was followed by a reception).

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AERA SIG/RWE BOARD MEETING MINUTES AERA New Orleans, 2002

Beverly Barquet, Lynne Cavazos, Catherine Hackney, Rosalind Hale, Charlotte Harris, Janice Koch, Pam LePage, Evelyn Reid, Kathleen Sernak, Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Michelle Torregano, Adrian Woods.

Evelyn Reid welcomed the group and explained that she was elected to the chair-elect position of the SAGE Committee. She ex-plained that AERA wants to continue to separate SAGE from RWE and that she hoped that in her position she could push continue a close collaboration.

Evelyn Reid explained that the SIG had a difficult year and thanked Catherine Hackney for taking responsibility for the newsletter. She showed the Board members a conference program that was developed for the Baltimore Fall Conference. She explained that the Baltimore host committee was very upset that the conference was canceled and wanted to thank them for their help. She also ex-plained that for the Fall Conference, the SIG received 44 papers total and had six cancellations at the last minute, which meant that the SIG would not have had enough papers to sustain an adequate Conference. She urged Board members to tell colleagues that we needed paper proposals for next year.

Evelyn Reid brought bags for Board members that she had planned to pass out to me mbers in Baltimore. She passed out the gifts and explained the significance of each gift. She also explained that Beverly Irby had to stay home and take care of her parents. She thanked Janice Koch for stepping in for Beverly Irby and for all her support .

Rosalind Hale introduced the team members for the group for next year. Her team members include: 1) Beverly Barquet - Xavier Graduate Student and Technology Instructor for the State Dept of Education 2) Michelle Torregano - Xavier Graduate Assistant on leave from a Central Office Position with the school District 3) Dr. Adrian Woods, Assistant Director, Financial Aid, Xavier

The SIG members quickly introduced themselves to the new volunteers. Treasurer’s Report

Rosalind Hale asked people to take a look at the treasurer’s report and explained that everything had been transferred over to Lynne Cavazos.

Janice Koch asked Rosalind Hale what it was like being treasurer during the transition period when AERA was asking the SIGs to allow them to collect dues and keep the membership. Rosalind Hale explained that one problem they had to deal with was that the SIG gets home addresses, but not e-mail addresses from AERA. So, it is difficult to get the information that is needed from AERA.

Evelyn Reid suggested that a few Board members needed to go to the AERA meeting for all SIGs. She thought that RWE represen-tatives might be able to bring clarity to the proceedings. She explained that the meeting was to be held on Thursday in the Marriot. It was a crucial meeting. (note: Janice Koch, Rosalind Hale and Barbara Thayer-Bacon attended this meeting)

Lynne Cavazos continued with the Treasurer’s report. She explained that the group started out with $6,000. Some of the other Board members suggested that the amount should be higher because the SIG was not yet getting dues from AERA. Lynne Cavazos went over the deposits, debits and credits and mentioned that they had received a large check from Beverly. She explained to the group that for the most part the SIG was maintaining $10,000.00 in the bank. She also explained that The Embassy Suites in Balti-more gave RWE their deposit back.

Evelyn Reid explained that if RWE had carried on with the Fall Conference, the SIG would have lost money and probably would only have about $2,000 in the treasury a this time.

It was suggested that the treasurer should be on the Board for more than two years. In the first year, a person barely gets the account going. Rosalind Hale suggested that perhaps the SIG needed to make some bylaw changes that would extend the amount of time that the treasurer serves on the Board.

Membership

Charlotte Harris explained that she had received information about who was a member of AERA and who was a memb er of RWE, but she had no information about whether people had already paid membership dues for additional years. She asked if Pam LePage had that information.

Pamela LePage stated that she had consolidated a number of databases, but none of them had information about who had paid dues.

Charlotte Harris explained that if the Board was going to update the membership by having members pay through AERA, the SIG needed to think about how they could get crucial important information because they could lose numbers and therefore lose slots.

At this time the SIG was getting information about new members, but during the transition, the SIG lost some information about old members. Evelyn Reed said she was going to pose some questions to AERA about how the SIG might reclaim old membership for next year’s slots. It was agreed that the RWE SIG should keep their own records and work to reconcile our records with AERA’s records.

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Program Chair

Janice Koch was sitting in on the Board for Beverly Irby who had worked to develop the AERA program for the New Orleans Con-ference. Janice explained this was a very difficult year. They received 52 proposals with only 4 slots and 13 round tables (note: The maximum slots that any SIG received was 4/13 so RWE received all that there was possible to receive). After asking other groups to sponsor some proposals, they ended up reviewing 41 proposals - 32 papers were accepted—19 paper submission and 13 round tables. Ultimately they had to reject 5 symposia.

One problem was that RWE used to be able to count multiple round tables for every “one” paper slot. Now the round tables were considered a slot in and of themselves. Beverly Irby’s biggest disappointment was that she had to reject so many wonderful symp o-sia.

Janice Koch explained that Beverly Irby urged the Board to conduct a major campaign in order to drive up their SIG’s numb ers so they could maintain the 4 slots and 13 round tables they now have.

Finally, Janice also explained that Beverly Irby had some trouble with the Web-based submission process. Specifically, she had sent out information to people about who was presenting, who was the discussant, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of people did not know they were discussants. Beverly urged people to bring this issue up at the AERA Board meeting. Newsletter Report

Catherine Hackney explained that she had been publishing the newsletter on-line. There was some confusion about when the news-letter was supposed to start going out via e-mail rather than paper mail. Catherine Hackney explained, however, that they had not had any complaints from members. The only problem was that some messages were bouncing because they did not have the right e-mail addresses on the listserv. It was decided that at the next RWE meeting, the conference staff should make an effort to get correct e-mail addresses.

Catherine Hackney explained that her assistant was having problems getting the information necessary to put in the newsletter. She explained that the newsletters goes out in June, September, January and March.

Catherine Hackney explained that besides being sent via e-mail, the newsletter was also posted on two Web sites. Beverly Irby posts the newsletter on the Women and Leadership Site and Pam LePage was posting them on the RWE SIG Web site. Catherine Hackney also suggested that perhaps we could start publishing articles in the newsletter. These articles would be non-juried, but perhaps some young academics would want to submit articles and have them published in the newsletter.

Evelyn Reid explained that Advancing Women in Leadership (AWL) had extended their deadline for paper submissions. The final deadline was April 17th. She explained that if AWL did not get enough papers, they would not be able to create a special issue for the Baltimore Fall Conference papers. In that case, they plan to use other papers that are waiting in the wings. She encouraged peo-ple to submit papers—but since Advancing Women in Leadership was a refereed journal, the papers should be well developed.

Janice Koch also explained that a book was coming out in the fall that she helped edit. The book included chapters by a number of people in the RWE SIG and was a result of a number of papers that have been submitted to RWE. She explained it was about defin-ing and redefining gender in education.

A discussion ensued about how much work Heather Wasler was doing on the newsletter and Rosalind Hale made a motion to give our publisher Heather Wasler a stipend of $100.00 per issues for a total of $400.00 over the year. The motion was seconded by Janice Koch. Motion passed.

Lynne Cavazos wanted to know when and where to send the check for the newsletter stipend. It was decided that each time a news-letter was completed, the treasurer would send Heather Wasler a check for $100.00.

Recorder’s Report

Pam LePage provided the Board with handouts of examples of the Web-based work that she (and her husband) had been working on over the last few years. She explained that she had been working at George Mason and that the Web site was hosted at GMU, but since she no longer worked there, the university gave her until May (a year) to move her files off the server.

She explained that she had talked to AERA about whether or not they would host a Web site on their server. They said they did not provide that service. Pam LePage suggested that the SIG get a commercial server so that from now on the Recorder wouldn’t need to keep transferring Web files from one university computer to the next. (note: at the SIG meeting it was announced that that AERA would be providing this service).

Pam LePage also explained that she had coordinated the conference proposals last year and that some of them were submitted via e-mail and some came via hard copy. She suggested that the SIG ask for proposals via computer only. She also asked AERA about whether or not the SIG could use AERA’s proposal submission software so that SIG members could ask people to submit proposals via the Web. She explained that she got a lot of proposals via e-mail that didn’t even have contact information listed. AERA said they did not own the software. Yong Zhou at Michigan State owned the software and the SIG would need to ask him for permission to use the software. (Note: it was reported at the AERA meeting that they are replacing the Tiger System with a new one by this sum-mer-fall)

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Recorder’s Report continued... Pam LePage explained that the recorder was responsible for the Web site and the listserv and her husband had started to create a Web-based database that would include all the membership information as well as information about proposal reviews, etc. She wanted to know if the group wanted to continue to develop this on-line database so that people would not have to move the member-ship database around, instead it would stay in the same place (accessed through the Web). Pam LePage explained that Kathy Ser-nak’s husband had agreed to volunteer to do some work, perhaps he could help.

Rosalind Hale made a motion to form a committee to investigate the cost and the procedures for implementing a Web-based database and report back to the fall conference. Janice Koch seconded. Motion passed.

It was decided that the technology committee would be under the direction of the past Chair, Evelyn Reed. The technology commit -tee would include: Evelyn Reed, Pam LePage, Kathy Sernak, Paula Lane, Charlotte Harris, and Maria Ferreira.

Janice Koch suggested that the committee explore costs of Web hosting at some lesser-known companies because companies like AOL sometimes overcharged. It was suggested that Kathy’s husband could provide suggestions on the best Web hosting sites avail-able. Lynne Cavazos asked that the Web host’s bill be sent directly to her.

Rosalind Hale made a motion that we have the SIG Web site hosted on a commercial site. Charlotte Harris second the motion The motion passed

Janice Koch thanked Pam LePage for her work on the Board. The rest of the Board also expressed their appreciation.

Diversity Task Force

Kathy Sernak explained that if the Board was committed to diversity they needed to provide a better place for the diversity task force to meet. She explained that the task force had been routinely meeting at AERA on Monday’s after the Welcome Reception for Women and People of Color. She explained that this was inadequate; there was no place to meet. It was noisy and the group did not have time to do serious planning.

Kathy Sernak asked the group to think about the goal of the diversity task force. She thought that the group should be engaged in action as well as dialog.

People asked whether the Diversity Task Force could meet in the Hospitality room. A conversation ensued about the Hospitality room. It was no longer available to RWE and WE in the same way that it had been in the past. The Hospitality Suite was hosted by SAGE and was to be made open and accessible to everyone at the conference.

Evelyn Reid made an announcement that this year the Hospitality Suite was in the Galvez room. She announced that RWE did have some sessions in the Hospitality suite. For example, on Thursday from 3-5, she had reserved the room for a women’s bonding cere-mony.

Evelyn Reid made a motion that from now on the Board should set aside time in the Hospitality Suite for the diversity task force meeting and would ask SAGE for committed time in Chicago. Charlotte Harris seconded the motion Motion passed

It was also suggested that RWE allow time for the diversity task force to meet at the fall conference (a special session in the fall con-ference). People suggested that the task force meet either on Friday or Saturday during or after a breakfast meeting when nobody else would be presenting to encourage people to attend.

Kathy Sernak made a motion that from now on the Diversity task force would have an ongoing slot after the Friday morning New-comer’s breakfast. Rosalind Hale seconded the motion Motion passed.

Chair-Elect: Fall Conference Planning

Rosalind Hale expla ined that the fall conference would be held at the Radisson Hotel in New Orleans (just down the street). She had already scheduled 80 rooms. The rooms were well furnished with special features like Internet access

Rosalind Hale also expects to have 10-12 venders in the Exhibit hall. This will bring in money to the SIG since vendors must pay a $50 dollar fee to reserve booth space. Rosalind Hale was also interested in getting a list of recent publication from SIG members and putting together a book-signing for members. The fall conference team had been working to set up onsite registration. They plan to provide tote bags and other useful items to members.

As far as donations, Rosalind Hale said that she would be asking some local organizations for donations. People asked Rosalind Hale if the university was helping to fund the conference. Rosalind Hale did not think that Xavier was going to be able provide a lot of extra money, but she was confident that she could get some donations from local organizations.

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Chair-Elect: Fall Conference Planning continued...

Rosalind Hale also suggested that they increase the cost of the conference and a conversation ensued about the cost of the confer-ence.

Janice Koch thought this was already a pricey conference. She thought that the Board should forego the bag and other nonessentials and maintain the original pricing. She didn’t want to alienate members who did not have a lot of money and who needed to pay their own way to the conference. She explained that some universities were cutting travel budgets.

Lynne Cavazos did not think the conference was too expensive and other Board members agreed with her. Some people listed the costs of other conferences and stated that in their experience RWE was less expensive.

Rosalind Hale made a motion for the Board to raise the price of the conference registration to $160.00. Lynne Cavazos seconded motion. 8 -- For, 1 -- Opposed. Motion passed.

Although other price changes/increases were discussed, the SIG voted to keep all other prices at the current level.

Rosalind Hale explained that she had a number of good speakers who were interested in presenting and they were following up on speakers. She also mentioned that Paula Lane was volunteering to coordinate the proposal review over the summer.

Member-at-Large

Barbara Thayer-Bacon emphasized the importance of spreading the word about dissertation proposals. There was still inconsistency in the number of proposals submitted each year. She thought this information should go out in the newsletter. Pam LePage sug-gested that something should be put on the Web site. Another Board member asked if the member-at-large should put an advertis e-ment in ER.

It was also agreed that the SIG should emphasize their interest in getting proposals that say something about race and class in the area of gender.

The SIG also discussed the need to have all the dates for various awards listed and accessible to people outside RWE. Pamela LePage suggested that the dates and criteria should be listed on the Web site.

There was also a conversation about the mission statement. Catherine Hackney was asked to get a hold of the most recent version of the mission statement and put it on the newsletter. Pamela LePage said that the current mission should be put on the Web for easy access.

Rosalind Hale also suggested that from now on Board members should bring copies of the bylaws to every meeting. So, if there is a question about process or procedures they could refer to the bylaws. Other Discussions and Announcements

Evelyn Reed explained that Maenette Benham, current Chair of SAGE, had some announcements. Evelyn explained that RWE is considered an affiliate group. If the SIG conducts group meetings beyond AERA’s approval, the groups would have an unaffiliated status. If a group is considered unaffiliated, the unaffiliated groups (themselves) must negotiate with the hotels for rooms and re-sources.

Evelyn explained that Maenette Benham was sorry that RWE was not listed as sponsoring the Women and Scholars of Color Recep-tion, but that SAGE will make an announcement at the meeting that RWE sponsors the reception and will introduce Board members. Catherine Hackney asked about this reception and commented that she was unaware that she needed to attend this reception.

Pam LePage suggested that we should develop some type of information sheet for new people coming onto the Board that provides them with information about what is expected of them, what meetings they should attend, etc. The group agreed.

It was announced that Barbara Thayer-Bacon was one of the nominees for Chair-elect. The Board had a discussion about whether the member-at-large was expected to accept the nomination for Chair-elect. According to the Bylaws, the member-at-large could run for chair elect, but it wasn’t part of their responsibilities. It was, however, necessary for the Chair-elect to be a person who was either on the Board currently or who was on the Board in the past. Evelyn Reid said she thought that it was important for the RWE to have letterhead. She thought it was more professional, especially when the Chairs needed to organize the conferences.

Evelyn Reid made a motion for the Board to purchase letterhead. Kathy Sernak seconded the motion. The motion passed.

There was also a discussion on whether or not the Board should have “a color.” At this point, the color scheme changes from con-ference to conference. Evelyn Reed asked whether they should adopt a color. A decision was made that the Board should let the color change from year to year depending on the Chair’s preference.

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Other Discussions and Announcements continued... Evelyn Reed also asked about fund raising for the SIG. She suggested that we use adds in the conference programs. She thought that we could ask universities to place ads. She suggested that the SIG could also have RWE members place ads that provide infor-mation about what they are doing. She added that a lot of RWE members did not know what other members were doing. She also suggested that these ads could be displayed in the conference programs, but they also could be permanent displayed on the Web site.

Rosalind Hale said that she would prefer to raise money in other ways.

A suggestion was made that perhaps the Board should put a line under the registration fee on the conference registration form asking people who were not going to attend to donate money. Someone said that the registration forms already included a line that asked for this type of donation. It was sugges ted that the form specify that the money will be used for student scholarships.

A question came up about how the Board was going to decide who had paid their dues, etc. It was suggested that someone needed to get in touch with various members. It was decided that the Membership Chair would take responsibility for reaching out to people about membership dues, etc.

Evelyn Re id suggested that the Board send out a survey that asks the members how the Board could assist them. The Board agreed.

Finally, Rosalind Hale suggested that she really needed to communicate with the new Board. She found it frustrating that she did not have time to meet with the new Board at AERA. So, Rosalind Hale decided to create a Blackboard site so that Board members could have a real-time chat on the computer. She planned to set that up and would be in touch with new Board members about their on-line conference.

Selma Greenberg Dissertation Award Winner:

ELLEN W. ECKMAN University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Urban Education, Administrative Leadership, Major Professor, Gail Schneider "The High School Principalship: A Woman’s Perspective"

Ellen Wexler Eckman is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership in the School of Education at Marquette University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her interest in the study of women high school principals began with her administrative and teaching experiences in public high schools in Wisconsin.

Dr. Eckman’s dissertation focuses on the experiences of women high school principals, exploring the challenges they face in becoming and in serving as principals of public high schools. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative research techniques to describe the role conflicts, role commitments and job satisfaction of women who were principals during the 1998-99 school year in the states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It helps to fill a significant void in the research on women high school principals and it shows great promise for extension. The researcher is already working to compare her findings on women to male principals, and she is conducting follow-up interviews with the eight women who participated in the qualitative phase of her dissertation. Her findings will enable her to offer recommendations that will be helpful in attract-ing and retaining women as high school principals.

ABSTRACT: THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALSHIP: FROM A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE

The study investigated the experiences of women high school principals in terms of the challenges they face serving as high school principals, role conflicts they experience, their role commitment and their job satisfaction. The purpose of the study was to describe women who are high school principals in order to address the issue of the continued underrepresentation of women in the high school principalship. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. For the quantitative investigation, data were collected from 164 of the women high school principals in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The qualitative investigation involved in-depth interviews with eight women high school principals in Wisconsin. Findings indicated that a majority of the respondents had become principals in their mid to late forties, were European-American, married and had children, which was consistent with earlier studies (Ortiz, 1982; Paddock, 1981; Shakeshaft, 1989). A majority of the women high school principals were employed in rural school districts, which had only one high school. This finding was not consistent with a study by M ertz and McNeely (1994). Job satisfaction was negatively associated with role conflict. Role conflict was experienced in terms of time demands and the pres-ence of children at home. Role conflict impacted on career decisions, as respondents indicated delaying entering the high school principal-ship until the demands of raising children had lessened. This career decision impacted on their future aspirations. The size of the school, in terms of numbers of students, contributed to job satisfaction and role conflict. Job satisfaction increased as the size of the school increased, while it decreased as role conflict increased. Mentoring and encouragement were found to be essential tools for increasing women’s interest in the high school principalship. Educational administrative programs were criticized for not exposing female students to the gender issues of the high school principalship.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

American Educational Research Association 2003 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL April 21-April 25

Deadline for Proposals: AUGUST 1, 2002 for all SIGS

Complete Details Available at: www.aera.net/meeting

WOMEN EDUCATORS AWARDS 2002 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Women Educators (WE) announces a call for nominations for its 27th annual awards. WE promotes equity in education and recognizes outstanding contributions of women who have produced curricular materials, conducted research, or engaged in activism and policy making on behalf of girls and women. An award cer-tificate and cash award will be presented to each recipient at the 2002 Fall RWE Conference in New Or-leans. Please submit nomination materials by August 31, 2002 to Charlotte Harris, Department of Teacher Education, 313 Allyn Hall, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435-0001; or FAX (937) 775-3308; or email: charlotte.harris@wright.edu.

NOMINATION FORM Nominee (Name and Title) _________________________________________________

Mailing Address _________________________________________________________

Phone (Office) _________________________ (Home) __________________________

E-mail _______________________________ (Fax) ____________________________

CATEGORY FOR WHICH THE PERSON IS BEING NOMINATED:

____ Activist/Policy: Contributions to the education of women/girls through equity activities on the local, state,

national, or international level.

____ Curricular Materials : Creation of original materials, which promote equity for use at any educational level. Materials should have wide application and make a significant contribution to the field of education.

____ Research: Published or unpublished research (not older that 3 years) on any aspect of women and education which has potential for practical application and contributes significantly to educational equity.

Please enclose 3 copies of the following materials with this application: • Letter of support from the nominator describing the person's contributions to the field and the rea-

sons for the nomination. Should include nominator’s name, address, phone, email, and fax number. • Supporting materials; e.g., samples of the person's work including publications, writing, research,

curriculum materials; letters of support from colleagues.

Please limit enclosures to materials that can be sent in a manila envelope.

URSULINE COLLEGE OF OHIO Announces

VOICES IN ACTION: WOMEN LEARN, WOMEN LEAD

An annual conference celebrating the ways women learn

and affirming the contributions women make in multiple professional leadership settings

2002 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Lynn Sherr ABC News Correspondent

Author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and

America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story behind Our Nation’s Favorite Song

Belleruth Naparstek

Nationally recognized psycho-therapist and author of numerous books and audio-tapes on Guided Imagery

on the Ursuline College campus Pepper Pike, Ohio

October 3 and 4, 2002

For more detailed information and registration materials contact Ursuline College at (440) 646-8120

or visit our website at www.ursuline.edu.

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Voices in Action: Women Learn, Women Lead Ursuline College

PEPPER PIKE, OHIO OCTOBER 3 AND 4, 2002

Call for Proposals Proposal Deadline Date Extended !

Conference Themes :

• From classroom to the workplace: Educational support for emerging women leaders

• Development of cultural competency: Productivity through diversity

• Practicing Transformative Leadership: Social responsibility, personal mastery, and duty to the organization

• Infusing spirit in the organization: Wondering, questioning, and pondering for creative, proactive, just, and reinvigorated organizations Suggested Session Formats :

• Paper sessions: For reporting research, presenting theory, analyzing policy or practice

• Symposia: For the examination of issues, topics from varied perspectives. Proposer(s) will serve as organizing chair to assemble participants, open and close session, and facliltate discussion

• Conversation: For stimulating, lively discussion around issues of interest. Proposer(s) will serve as organizing chair to assemble participants or pan-els, to guide conversation, and to facilitate discussion around work in progress, practical ideas, books, new theory.

• Performance: An alternative way to present or report research, present theory, stimulate point-counterpoint, hear the voices of the marginalized, or

present controversial issues using drama, music, art, monologue, readings. Format for Submission of the Proposal

• Cover sheet with contact information- names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, email of proposer(s). Title of presentation. Type of presentation.

• A summary of the proposed session, not more than two pages. Summary pages should exclude any identifiable reference to the proposer(s).

Criteria for Blind, Peer-reviewed Submission and Acceptance :

• Written expression of the significance of the topic to the field, a clear statement of purpose of the proposed session, a strong conceptual framework, relevance to conference themes, and a description of the session format including sequencing, plans for interaction with attendees, questions or cases for discussion.

Submission:

By mail to: Catherine Hackney, Ph.D.

Ursuline College 2550 Lander Rd.

Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124

By email to: chackney@ursuline.edu

All submissions should be received by July 1, 2002. Proposers will be notified of the results of the blind review via email by August 15, 2002.

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