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With its focus on breaking down the economic and educational barriers that women and girls face, members of the Association of American University Women's Student Advisory Council (AAUW SAC) advise AAUW on key national issues that might confront college students. Two women’s college students – Meg Beyer of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, and Ashlee T. Oliver of Hollins University in Roanoke, VA – are among the ten students recently appointed to the Council.

Dec. 19, 2008 -- Mount St. Mary’s College and Judson College have been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for their distinguished records of service to their communities. The Foundation announced this week that both women's colleges were among the 119 U.S. colleges and universities selected for its 2008 Community Engagement Classification.

From the Trinity University President Patricia A. McGuire's December 14, 2008 Blog

Trinity President Patricia A. McGuire's blog takes up the global challenge of women's education:

"...beyond traditional educational elites, both here in the U.S. and around the world, women continue to suffer intellectual impoverishment along with material poverty, gross discrimination and frequent physical oppression."

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Sat., December 13, 2008
by Mary Jordan

Across Much of South Asia, a Daughter's Life Is Circumscribed By Tradition and Poverty. But for Some, the Dreams Die Slower.

by David Moltz
Walsh Hall is the center of activity at the College of Saint Mary, a Roman Catholic women’s institution in Omaha, Neb. Among its many uses, the building houses faculty and administration offices, computer labs, a chapel and an art gallery. Its upstairs residents, however, are what makes Walsh Hall unusual: it is home to 31 single mothers and their children.

The Mothers Living and Learning program, now in its ninth year, is an on-campus residential option for single mothers who wish to pursue their bachelor’s degree while raising their children. The top two floors of Walsh Hall are open to women who have up to two children who will be no older than ten by the year of their mother’s graduation.