Committee W

The Status of Women in the Profession

Welcome Women Professors:

At the 1996 AAUP spring meeting at Luther College in Decorah, the Iowa AAUP Committee on Women was confirmed. The purpose of this committee is to:

Assist women professors throughout the state with professional development.
Survey women professors on issues of concern to women, and to discuss them in public fora, newspaper articles, and other media, with the intent of gathering as complete information as possible concerning these issues.
Educate the professoriate and the public-at-large to the uniqueness of problems faced by women and to develop strategies for their successful resolution.

Some of the issues of concern which we might address may be the conflict which exists between spousal accommodations and peer selection of colleagues; or accommodation of maternity leave within the tenure clock, etc. More importantly, however, the committee wants women professors to know that we are here to offer whatever assistance and support they might need.

Joanna W Courteau, Chair
Iowa Committee W

Joanna Courteau (Chair)
Foreign Languages
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
319-294-7405
courteau@iastate.edu

Elaine Kalmar
English
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0520
319-273-3849 (office)
319-266-4402 (home)
kalmar@cobra.uni.edu

Ruth Wachtel
Anesthesia
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246
319-353-7681
ruth-wachtel@uiowa.edu

Jacqueline Wilkie
History
Luther College
Decorah, IA 52101
319-387-1369
wilkieja@martin.luther.edu