Executive Committee

COSW Chair, Sharon LaRue, PEACC

COSW Vice Chair, Susan Hanley Duncan, Law School

Linda Bledsoe, Kent School of Social Work

Valerie Casey, Women's Center

Dawn Heinecken, Women's & Gender Studies

Ann Larsen, College of Education

Edna Ross, College of Education

Robert Goldstein, Office of the Provost

Standing Committees

Campus Environment Committee

• Linda Bledsoe, Kent School of Social Work, Chair
• Wayne Hall, DPS
• Sharon LaRue, PEACC
• Holly Sheilley, Athletics
• Prafula Sheth, Student Advocate, UGS Administration
• Anita Moorman, College of Education

The Committee on Campus Environment will monitor the University's provisions of a safe and secure environment for all memebers of the campus community and will play an active role in maintaining this environment through direct participation in programs and services. This includes COSW's continued partnership with the Department of Public Safety, the Prevention Education Advocacy on Campus and in the Community (PEACC) program, and the Women's Center.  This committee will also be responsible for the development of programs/workshops to be held on an annual basis to address current topics related to campus environment.  The facets of a safe and secure environment include: physical security, sexual harassment policy and training, and women's advocacy programs.

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Communications Committee

• Brian Buford, Human Resources
• Valerie Casey, Women's Center, Chair
• Dwight D. Dozier, VPUA Admin.
• Vicki Hines-Martin, Nursing
• Monica Jones, A&S Academic Advising Center
• Robert Plienis, Student Disabilities Resources Ctr.

The Communications Committee will be a standing committee and will be responsible for the dissemination and publication of COSW information to membership and the university community.  Items the committee will develop and maintain can include the following:

• website, newsletter and calendar
• annual goals and reports of accomplishsments
• nomination and new membership information
• meetings, elections and regular business
• Commission sponsorships and events

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Integration of Work and Family Committee

• Leslye Erickson, VPSA
• Susan Hanley Duncan, Law School
• Shirley Hardy, VPSA
• Ann Larson, College of Education, Chair
• Margaret Pentecost, College of Education
• Jennifer E. Taylor, College of Education ~ Education Research

The University shall acknowledge the importance of balance in the lives of its employees.  This shall include respect for the importance of family and community.  This respect shall be demonstrated through the development and implementation of policies with humane concern for personal and family values and responsibilities.  This climate will foster equally the achievements of women and men.  The Committee on Integration of Work anf Family will monitor these various policies including the quality of benefits such as health insurance, leave policies, child care programs, and tuition subsidies for children.

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Representation, Recruitment, and Retention Committee

• Michel Atlas, University Libraries, HCS
• Julia Dietrich, English
• Harvey Johnson, Human Resources
• Victoria Molfese, Education 
• Anita Moorman, Education, HPES
• Kathy Pendleton, Student Disabilities Resources Center
• Mary Karen Powers, Women's Center
• Edna Ross, Education
• Mordean Taylor-Archer, Provost Office
  

The Committee on Representation, Recruitment and Retention will promote gender balance in all employee categories and support programs in career development and mentoring for women.  The committee will assist in the implementation of the recommendations of the 1994 Task Force regarding the hiring of women, promotion of women to administrative/managerial positions and the mentoring of women in preparation for more senior positions.

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Women and Global Issues Committee

• Valerie Casey, Women's Center
• Dawn Heinecken, Womens and Gender Studies, co-Chair
• M. Cynthia Logsdon, Nursing
• Prafula Sheth, UGS Student Advocate
• Nancy Theriot, Womens and Gender Studies

The mission of the Women and Global Issues Committee is to heighten the awareness of women and global issues with faculty, staff, and students.  We accomplish this through a number of programs such as:

• inviting speakers of international renown who can address issues relating to the global economy, global social issues, and education of women and girls;
• funding and sponorship for groups or individuals who are planning forums on these issues;
• supporting scholarship on a varierty of issues concerning women in a global perspective;
• facilitating and promoting research opportunitities for students related to women and global issues.