Glossary
AAUW - American Association of University Women
AAUW Glossary:
AAUW
- The American Association of University Women is open to all graduates who hold the associate's or higher degree or its equivalent, from a regionally accredited college or university.
- The name was adopted in 1921 through the merger of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, (formed in 1881) and the Southern Association of College Women. AAUW is two corporations: the first is the membership Association; the second is the AAUW Educational Foundation, and the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, which completed a merger of the two corporations on June 30, 2005.
- AAUW and the Educational Foundation, as part of the Strategic Process, approved at the 2007 Association Convention, are working together, in the 2007-2009 biennium, to bring about the merger of these two corporations into one corporation, AAUW.
- AAUW membership requirements were changed at the AAUW 2005 Convention to allow graduates of two-year associate degree programs, or it's equivalent, such as three-year diploma programs in nursing, into full Association membership.
Association membership includes more than 100,000 individual members, 1,300 branches, and 500 college/university institution members.
AAUW Strategic Process: During an 18-month period, AAUW and the Educational Foundation have been engaged in an extensive strategic process to address shared challenges and opportunities. Incorporating more than 11,000 members' voices, the strategic process identified AAUW’s current structure as a barrier to attracting new members, strengthening our revenues, and accomplishing our mission. Adapting our structure is a necessary first step toward reclaiming our legacy as a relevant, vibrant organization.
This has lead to plans to reorganize the Association, over the past two years, into one organization, the AAUW, with a slightly changed Mission Statement, and a new Vision Statement for AAUW. The Educational Foundation merged with the Legal Advocacy Fund four years ago. The next step, through a two-year transition period, ending in 2009, will find AAUW and the Educational Foundation merged into one organization.
An historic event occurred at the Association Convention in Phoenix, 2007, when the delegate body voted unanimously to approve adoption of a bylaws change that would provide for a two-year transition period, allowing AAUW and EF to merge into one organization by 2009. The strategic process has been moving on.
At the June 2009 Convention in St. Louis the delegate body will again be involved in an important debate, as a new set of Bylaws is brought before the membership for discussion and approval.
AAUW Glossary:
AAUW
- The American Association of University Women is open to all graduates who hold the associate's or higher degree or its equivalent, from a regionally accredited college or university.
- The name was adopted in 1921 through the merger of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, (formed in 1881) and the Southern Association of College Women. AAUW is two corporations: the first is the membership Association; the second is the AAUW Educational Foundation, and the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, which completed a merger of the two corporations on June 30, 2005.
- AAUW and the Educational Foundation, as part of the Strategic Process, approved at the 2007 Association Convention, are working together, in the 2007-2009 biennium, to bring about the merger of these two corporations into one corporation, AAUW.
- AAUW membership requirements were changed at the AAUW 2005 Convention to allow graduates of two-year associate degree programs, or it's equivalent, such as three-year diploma programs in nursing, into full Association membership.
Association membership includes more than 100,000 individual members, 1,300 branches, and 500 college/university institution members.
AAUW Strategic Process: During an 18-month period, AAUW and the Educational Foundation have been engaged in an extensive strategic process to address shared challenges and opportunities. Incorporating more than 11,000 members' voices, the strategic process identified AAUW’s current structure as a barrier to attracting new members, strengthening our revenues, and accomplishing our mission. Adapting our structure is a necessary first step toward reclaiming our legacy as a relevant, vibrant organization.
This has lead to plans to reorganize the Association, over the past two years, into one organization, the AAUW, with a slightly changed Mission Statement, and a new Vision Statement for AAUW. The Educational Foundation merged with the Legal Advocacy Fund four years ago. The next step, through a two-year transition period, ending in 2009, will find AAUW and the Educational Foundation merged into one organization.
An historic event occurred at the Association Convention in Phoenix, 2007, when the delegate body voted unanimously to approve adoption of a bylaws change that would provide for a two-year transition period, allowing AAUW and EF to merge into one organization by 2009. The strategic process has been moving on.