FWIG
faculty women's interest group
Since: April, 2006
FWIG list:
ACSP-FWIG-L@cornell.edu
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FWIG, the Faculty Women's Interest Group, is a formally approved Interest Group of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), a consortium of university-based programs offering degrees and credentials in Urban and Regional Planning.
ACSP promotes planning education, research, service, and outreach in North America and throughout the world (see link below).
FWIG seeks to encourage and support women faculty and graduate students in urban and regional planning as well as those conducting research and outreach on planning issues critical to women.


Conference 2008
Plan to attend FWIG events - check the conference schedule
(luncheon on Wednesday, and business meeting on Tuesday;
payment for the luncheon can be done by using this form).
Our AESOP colleagues have been invited to join us for the luncheon. Please be a "buddy" - introduce them and help them feel welcome.

The proposed by-law changes (separating the offices of secretary and treasurer, and appointing regional reps) have been approved by a majority of FWIG members who sent in their vote.
See new officers regional reps list.

In 2008 FWIG gave the McCoy award,
recognizing individuals who have made an outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research. The Margarita McCoy Award is made by the ACSP Faculty Women's Interest Group.
See Daphne Spain' acceptance speech and images from the awards ceremony.

Idea Exchange

  • What can FWIG do for you?
  • What would you like to do for FWIG
Write to the FWIG list to contribute your ideas for activities, conference sessions and workshops, topics for the business meeting, etc.
To post your message to the FWIG list, address your email to:
FWIG list*: ACSP-FWIG-L@cornell.edu
* you have to sign up for the list and then write from the email account under which you signed up.
To sign up, send to Lyris@Cornell.edu a message containing only Subscribe ACSP-FWIG-L [your name]
(the case counts). Hit "send".

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Current events

  • The Committee on Women's Travel Issues of the Transportation Research Board invites papers on women's, children's, and family travel issues for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (Jan. 11 - 15, 2009, Washington, DC). Papers will be peer-reviewed for presentation and/or publication in the scholarly journal Transportation Research Record.
    Submit a complete paper on-line by August 1 (firm deadline).
    Complete details.
    Address questions to Sandi Rosenbloom, () or to Susan Handy, ()

  • 2008 Resume Book (on its 25th anniversary):
    Time again to compile the resumes of women seeking entry-level tenure-earning teaching positions in community and regional planning programs in North America.
    Most people in previous resume books have been new PhD's, but people with a job seeking another or those who are ABD but close to being finished also participate.
    Sometimes professionals and practicing planners without PhD's ask to be included because they'd like to teach.

    The book will be posted on the ACSP website; it is widely used by departments / programs seeking new faculty.
    Please:
    • post this announcement for anyone who might be interested (students, faculty, chairs).
    • print a few copies and post on your bulletin boards or
      publicize in any way you think useful




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Membership
The FWIG List is one way that FWIG members communicate. Anyone subscribing to FWIG's goals and interests can become a member of FWIG.
If you wish to subscribe to the FWIG List, send an e-mail message to:
Lyris@Cornell.edu
The body of the message should be:
join ACSP-FWIG-L "your name"
(where "your name" -- include the quotation marks -- is the name you want to be available to the list's administrators.)
Important: You must send this message from the e-mail address where you want to receive the FWIG-list's messages. The message must be sent in plain text, that is, no formatting, font styles, or HTML code. Your name must appear in double quotes.
Any Questions: send a message to professor Patricia Pollak, list manager, at pbp3@cornell.edu