Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Competitive Benefits Rally!
Monday, February 14, 2011
12-1:30pm
West Mall

What better way to show your love for equality than on Valentine’s Day? Join PEFSA and student allies for a rally on the West Mall, followed by a march to UT Human Resources to symbolically enroll our partners for insurance benefits. We hope you will join us in showing the campus that equal benefits for all UT families is the best policy. We will have speakers, t-shirts, and signs on the West Mall at noon. If you would like to submit insurance paperwork for your partner, please contact Lindsey Schell (schell@mail.utexas.edu) by Feb. 1. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL!

With the exciting beginnings of our Women’s Rights Initiative underway, we have added a new, part-time position to support our and your development of women’s human rights curricula in connection with interdisciplinary and community collaborations. This month, Kristen Hogan has joined CWGS as the Project Director for the Women’s Rights Initiative.

Kristen has experience as a literary activist organizing and teaching classes as well as workshops with non-profits, foundations, and academic programs. She has served as co-manager and book buyer at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, then a board-run nonprofit bookstore with a feminist antiracist vision; she has taught Women’s and Gender Studies and English at LSU Baton Rouge, where she co-founded a community and academy collaboration around queer antiracist performance; on her return to Austin, she taught for CWGS and fostered feminist information systems by collaborating on the development of the Black Queer Studies Collection and creating the CWGS Guide to Research and Teaching for Women’s Human Rights (more on this to follow shortly). She earned her PhD in English with a Graduate Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies here at UT Austin in 2006; this month she receives her MS in Information Studies.

February 19-20, 2010, Austin, TX
The members of The University of Texas at Austin’s Pride and Equity Faculty and Staff Association, and Equality Texas, with co-sponsors Texas State University and the University of Houston, invite you to attend the Second Annual Texas Equity Conference.

Continuing the momentum created at last year’s conference, we are urging every public and private university in Texas to send one or more representatives. This conference provides an opportunity to develop a comprehensive working plan to secure competitive insurance benefits* for state university employees and to develop your campus initiatives on equality issues. The conference is designed for university faculty and staff, and 1 student leader per school may also attend.

The agenda includes:

* developing regional coalitions to help support each other in our ongoing activities;
* information about successful competitive insurance benefits initiatives at other universities;
* information about “soft benefits” and other ways to improve your university’s equality standing beyond competitive insurance;
* and a training session led by Equality Texas on effectively building relationships with your state representatives.

Held at the AT&T Conference Center on the UT Austin campus, the event will begin with a Meet-and-Greet on Friday, February 19th at 5:30 pm, followed by an all-day session and lunch on Saturday, February 20th, from 9am – 5pm. Registration is $75 per person. The Center has set aside a block of rooms for conference participants at $159 per night.

*competitive insurance benefits is inclusive terminology also known as domestic partner benefits, “plus one” benefits, or “another qualified person” benefits. The goal of competitive insurance benefits is to increase the successful recruitment and retention of superior faculty and staff at Texas universities by offering benefits packages comparable to competing employers in the academic marketplace.

For additional information, contact: Debra Winegarten, Department of Astronomy, UT Austin, winegarten@astro.as.utexas.edu.

Hotel accommodations may be reserved through: http://www.meetattexas.com/ Please use reservation code PEFSA2010.

To register for the conference, go to: http://www.utexas.edu/staff/pefsa/tec/

PEFSA
Making History

February 19-20, 2010, Austin, TX

The members of The University of Texas at Austin’s Pride and Equity Faculty
and Staff Association, and Equality Texas, with co-sponsors Texas State
University and the University of Houston, invite you to attend the Second
Annual Texas Equity Conference.
Continuing the momentum created at last year’s conference, we are urging every public and private university in Texas to send one or more
representatives. This conference provides an opportunity to develop a
comprehensive working plan to secure competitive insurance benefits* for
state university employees and to develop your campus initiatives on
equality issues. The conference is designed for university faculty and
staff, and 1 student leader per school may also attend.
The agenda includes: developing regional coalitions to help support each other in our ongoing activities; information about successful competitive insurance benefits initiatives at other universities; information about “soft benefits” and other ways to improve your university’s equality standing beyond competitive insurance; and a training session led by Equality Texas on effectively building
relationships with your state representatives.
Held at the AT&T Conference Center on the UT Austin campus, the event will begin with a Meet-and-Greet on Friday, February 19th at 5:30 pm, followed by an all-day session and lunch on Saturday, February 20th, from 9am – 5pm.
Registration is $75 per person. The Center has set aside a block of rooms
for conference participants at $159 per night.
*competitive insurance benefits is inclusive terminology also known as
domestic partner benefits, “plus one” benefits, or “another qualified
person” benefits. The goal of competitive insurance benefits is to increase
the successful recruitment and retention of superior faculty and staff at
Texas universities by offering benefits packages comparable to competing
employers in the academic marketplace.
For additional information, contact: Debra Winegarten, Department of
Astronomy, UT Austin, winegarten@astro.as.utexas.edu.
Hotel accommodations may be reserved through: http://www.meetattexas.com/
Please use reservation code PEFSA2010.
To register for the conference, go to:

http://www.utexas.edu/staff/pefsa/tec/