February 2010
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 Susan McGee Bailey to Retire at Year's End
Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D., executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), will retire at
the end of 2010 after 25 years of dynamic leadership.
"I love my work at WCW and the dedicated and talented colleagues I have had the privilege to work with during my 25 years as director," says Bailey. "I am proud of the influence our research and action projects have had in helping to motivate positive social change. There is still much to do and clearly, WCW's work is as relevant and as needed as ever, but I have made my decision secure in the knowledge that this work will continue."
The end of 2010 will mark the successful completion of WCW's 35th Anniversary Fund Drive. New initiatives supported by the Fund will be well underway--initiatives addressing three key priorities: Achieving Equity in Education; Advancing Women's Economic Status; and Promoting Human Rights and Women's Leadership Around the World. Bailey notes that the Centers' research, program, and administrative staff, coupled with a strong financial base, position the Centers to move forward successfully into the next decade.
Read the press release and more about Bailey's accomplishments on the WCW website.
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New Funding for Work with Child & Youth Programs
NIOST Receives Robert Wood Johnson Grant
 The National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for an investigation of physical activity and healthy eating standards and practices at out-of-school time (OST) programs. The one-year project, a collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston, focuses on OST programs which serve children and youth, grades K-12, during OST hours, holidays, and vacations, with a particular focus on those programs serving low-income children of color. The project allows the investigators to initiate policy research that will assess current OST physical activity and healthy eating policies and practices before new national policies are put in place.
U.S. Department of Education Grant Supports Contract Project
Joanne Roberts, Ph.D., WCW research scientist, and Wendy Robeson, Ed.D., WCW senior research scientist, will perform evaluation activities in support of Ready to Learn Providence's Early Reading First (ERF) Program with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The ERF Program is designed to provide approximately 240 children at-risk for academic failure with the early language and literacy skills they need for a successful transition into kindergarten. This is a three-year evaluation project.
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 Upcoming Programs from WCW Scholars and Programs
Tuesday, February 23
How Teachers' Spirituality and Religion Influence Their Work As Educators: A Conversation with Joan Blanusa
Wellesley, MA; 4:00-6:00 p.m.-- A special program from Open Circle and Northeast Courage & Renewal. Learn more.
Thursday, March 4
Cross-sectionalities of gender, disability, and development: Towards equality for women and girls with disabilities
United Nations-Commission on the Status of Women, New York, NY; 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.-- Presenters include: Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D. Learn more.
Thursday, March 4
Lunchtime Seminar: Ticket Office Sexism: The Gender Gap in Pricing for NCAA Division I Basketball*
Wellesley, MA; 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.-- Presenters: Laura Pappano and Allison Tracy, Ph.D. Learn more.
Wednesday, March 17
Webinar--Are you my mother? Developing capacity to connect in early childhood relationships
Online; 12:00 p.m. EST-- Presented by Amy Banks, M.D. Learn more.
Saturday, March 27
New Developments in Relational Mindfulness: Compassionate Relationships, Wise Brains
Wellesley, MA; 9:00 a.m.-4:15 p.m.-- Presented by the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. Learn more.
WCW scholars will be presenting at the 7th Helen I. Moorhead-Laurencin, M.D. Sex and Gender Research Forum and at the Society for Research on Adolescence, both in Philadelphia, PA in March. See full line-up of upcoming programs at: www.wcwonline.org/calendar. View flyer for the lunchtime seminar series which kicks off March 4th (see above).*
*Several WCW Lunchtime Seminars are audio recorded and the files are posted online. Listen to past presentations.
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Preview Newest Issue of Women's Review of Books
 Peruse the table of contents and preview select articles from the newest issue of Women's Review of Books,
including reviews of:
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd; review by Penny Farfan;
Sojournor Truth's America by Margaret Washington; review by Jean M. Humez;
Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo; review by Lori Rotskoff; and
Bad Girls Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon; review by Emily Toth.
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Thank you for reading eNews Update.
If you'd like more information about the Wellesley Centers for Women, I invite you to visit our website at www.wcwonline.org.
Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Wellesley Centers for Women
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