PCOSW Committees

Committees

"In my time with the commission, I learned about the multiplicity of challenges faced and successes won by women. I valued the democratic atmosphere in which classified staff, students, research assistants, and fixed-term, professional and tenured/tenure track faculty could come together and speak freely, listen and commit to actions for improved climate and improved status of women."

Moira Dempsey, Director
Academic Success Center

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Strategic Planning & Leadership

Update & maintain Commission focus on the strategic plan thus anchoring the Commission, providing long-term goals and setting long-range strategies.
Create and/or revise a mission statement relevant to issues we face in 2007 and beyond.
Promote setting a timetable for future salary equity studies, as well as keeping tabs on the positions women hold at OSU in all ranks.
Oversee graduate assistant.

Awards & Recognition

Leadership & Strategic Planning Liason:Thuy Tran
Provide opportunities for women in higher education to attend the OWHE conference & similar conferences.
Determine the recipient(s) of the professional development award.
Develop guidelines for requests for funding relevant to the advancement and/or education of women.
Post professional development opportunities on the PCOSW website, OSU Today, the Barometer, etc.

Campus Culture & Practices

Leadership & Strategic Planning Liason:Louisa Hooven
Monitor timetable for future campus climate studies.
Form a small consultant group to assist any department, college or other unit interested in learning how they might incorporate gender issues into their Diversity Action Plans.
Work with Outreach & Events to promote the Herstory project by raising awareness of it at campus events (such as the Vagina Monologues) & in classrooms. Collect new stories for the project.
Promote the anti-sexual harassment training developed by Affirmative Action.
Raise campus awareness of the LifeBalanceOSU project.

Outreach & Events

Leadership & Strategic Planning Liason:Candy Pierson-Charlton
Build connections with OSU students in international programs. Create short and long-term plans for strategies to make the OSU and Corvallis community aware of PCOSW, its mission and the resources available through our organization.
Raise campus awareness of PCOSW in order to recruit undergraduate and graduate student members to the Commission.
Plan events allowing for interactions between and among women at OSU who may be interesting in building relationships, gaining ideas and offering opportunities for growth through team-building.
Increase PCOSW's campus presence via monthly brown bag/fireside chats, classroom presentations & publicity material distribution.
Organize an International Women's Day/Month celebration in partnership with ISOSU.
Work with Campus Culture & Practices to promote the Herstory project by raising awareness of it at campus events (such as the Vagina Monologues) & in classrooms. Collect new stories for the project.
Build connections with other women in the state and region, including but not limited to other university PCOSWs, Oregon Women in Higher Education and other women who are part of the Oregon University System Office. More voices = stronger voices.

Professional Development & Advancement

Leadership & Strategic Planning Liason:Jane Nichols
Follow up on the P & T (Promotion & Tenure) study. Determine the next steps and the direction of this committee (if any) once the P & T report has been delivered to all interested parties.
Oversee the development of administrative internships for women students, faculty and staff.
Raise awareness of salary inequities via the P & T study, public events & informative material distribution.
Identify barriers to women's advancement.