AAUW Wisconsin State Convention

April 25-27, 2008
Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel
375 South Moorland Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
(262) 786-1100

Highlights from Friday, April 25:

Thank you to everyone for an inspirational, community building convention! Special thanks to our local hosts at the West Suburban Milwaukee branch, our speakers, organizers, state board, district coordinators, and the more than 160 attendees.

Highlights from April 26:

Highlights from April 27:

2008 Convention Handouts:
Voter Education Workshop
Fraudbusters Handouts
Diversity Circles Workshop well received at Convention (.doc)

Online information:
Donating to the Judy Kneece American Fellowship Fund
Building websites, logos and graphics, Facebook information and even finding your member ID

Workshop – Women in Appointed Office
The Inside Scoop on Appointments to Boards and Commissions

Get the "Inside Scoop" from women who serve as public members of local government boards and commissions. The focus of this Saturday afternoon workshop will be how they got involved, expectations of board service, how the selection process works, qualifications, and how public policy is impacted by decisions of boards and commissions. Are you interested in providing leadership to local government issues in your community without running for elected office? Learn about the great opportunities for public member appointments to boards and commissions!

Featured panelists will include:
Town Appointment
Patti Chasteen
Town of Delafield, Park & Recreation Board

City & State Appointments
Joan Jenstead
1. City of Brookfield, Economic Development Council
2. President, Waukesha County Technical College Board (Governor's Appointment)

County Appointments
Gay Alberts Ruby
1. Waukesha County Federated Library System Board
2. (Village of) Hartland Public Library Board

State Appointments
Rachel Allen -
Governor Doyle's Appointments Director

Barb Munson
Wisconsin Arts Board

Moderator
Christine Lidbury
City of Madison, Early Childhood Care and Education Board

Diversity Circles: Dialogue - Action - Change

From Diversity VP Barbara Munson

Bring a guest to learn about Diversity Circles and AAUW
Roseann Mason, Community Dialogues Director at UW Parkside, and Rebecca Mason, LAF Vice President AAUW- WI, will be conducting a workshop about Diversity Circles - a program of community dialogues designed to explore difficult issues impacting diverse populations and moving them toward solutions. Communities throughout Wisconsin are conducting these dialogues. Several AAUW members are already participating in these community dialogues and some have become trained facilitators.

To be effective, Diversity Circles need the voices of people from varied populations within each community. In an effort to attract and involve these partners the AAUW State Board has decided to waive the Sunday registration fee for guests invited by our members to attend this session at our convention this year. This is an opportunity for us to develop partnerships with ethnic organizations that promote education for girls and women throughout the state. By inviting representatives from these organizations to the Diversity Circles workshop we will enact on a state level the “Doing Diversity” Initiative that we are asking our branches to engage in on the local level. Think about who you would like to invite to further this dialogue in your community, region and state. We can develop relationships with change agents and together learn effective ways to create positive change through involvement in Diversity Circles.

AAUW members may invite guests from other groups to attend this workshop with them.
If you are bringing guests their registration fee for Sunday events will be waived. Please ask your guests to bring your written invitation with them to the Sunday session and let the Registrar know how many guests you have invited when you register. Guests are welcome to attend our business meeting (as non-voters) and other Sunday morning programming elements to get a feel for our organization. If your guests want to join us for breakfast they will incur charges for the meal if they are not overnight hotel guests.

This year let’s grow our network and show that we value diversity in our membership and in our communities by bringing the dialogue to our convention.

Get the .doc of the schedule