September
24,
2004
MHC
Newsmakers
Global
Agenda Women’s eNews,
an influential Web site devoted to international news and perspectives
on issues of particular concern to women, has posted a piece by
President Joanne V. Creighton on the continuing need to expand
educational opportunities for women around the globe. In “Women’s
Education Needs Global Lesson Plan,” Creighton wrote:
“Advancing educational opportunities for women across all ethnic, racial,
age and socioeconomic groups continues to be the great unfinished agenda of the
21st century. Integrally intertwined with that is an even more pressing issue
and a much larger agenda, that of social justice for girls and women worldwide.”
Creighton’s piece was tied to the June conference Women’s Education
Worldwide 2004: The Unfinished Agenda, which was cohosted by Smith and Mount
Holyoke and brought 47 leaders from 29 women’s colleges and universities
from five continents here to western Massachusetts to explore common issues and
challenges, as well as opportunities for collaboration.
“While outcomes from this historic conference are still unfolding, clearly
our collaboration will continue,” Creighton wrote. “We are keeping
in touch electronically, developing a Web site, and forming a planning committee.
“Colleges from around the world have volunteered to host the next meeting
in two or three years. Student and
faculty exchange programs among the institutions are taking shape.
“Our goal is to be a powerful force in developing a new generation of women
with the global perspective, knowledge, and skills to bring radical change to
the status of girls and women across the world.”
The entire piece is available online at
www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1981.
Spacetalk Martha Ackmann, senior lecturer in women’s studies, has been
in the media recently, as well as on the lecture circuit to talk about her
book, The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women
and the Dream of Space Flight. Ackmann was featured July 20 on National Public Radio’s All Things
Considered, presenting a commentary on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the
moon landing. The book was released in paperback this summer. In May, Ackmann
was the featured speaker for the Engineering Colloquium at NASA’s Goddard
Space Flight Center. In August, she gave the keynote address at NASA’s
Wallops Space Flight Facility in commemoration of Women’s Equality Day.
In early September, she spoke at the inaugural Women Change America conference
at Smith College, sponsored by the National Women’s History Project.
Later this month, she will lecture at Wellesley College in a special program
hosted by the college’s astronomy and physics departments.
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