On October 24th, AAUW-NM held a productive Fall Workshop hosted by the Portales Student Affiliate Branch@ ENMU. One of the AAUW / AAUW-NM initiatives for the next couple years which was presented involves working with our local school districts to access their implementation of Title IX. Every branch of AAUW is encouraged to contact the schools in their respective districts to determine the person responsible for Title IX and to discuss how their schools are complying with the many facets of this law.

At the AAUW Convention in San Diego this past summer, one of the keynote speakers was Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights at the Department of Education. Her speech covering Title IX was dynamic and informative. For our Online Branch program this month, you are encouraged to go to the AAUW web site and view Catherine Lhamon’s speech. How to you get there?: Go to aauw.org then click on “Convention”, then click on “Resources and Materials”, then click on “Speakers”, she is the second video on that page.

In addition to the speech, there are other resources with tons of information regarding the breadth of Title IX available on the AAUW web site. The easiest way to find information on the aauw.org site is to type what you are looking for into the “search” box at the top of the home page.