SSmith (SSmith@edc.org)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:18:30 -0500
Join a discussion February 9 to 16 with: Yolanda Wu, senior
staff attorney, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund;
Eleanor Linn, senior associate director, Programs for
Educational Opportunity, University of Michigan; and a
representative from the U.S. Department of Education's
Office for Civil Rights.
We have arranged for three experts on sexual harassment and
Title IX to participate in the next in our series of topical
discussions. The panel will address the current state of
the law, the prevalence of the problem, successful
strategies schools can adopt to combat sexual harassment,
and federal enforcement and prevention efforts. The panel
will include:
***Yolanda Wu, senior staff attorney, NOW Legal Defense and
Education Fund. Her article, "Trends in Sexual Harassment
Litigation Under Title IX," appears in the latest WEEA
Digest and is available on our web site
<www.edc.org/WomensEquity>. Please note that Ms. Wu will be
participating on Thursday and Friday, February 11th and 12th.
***Eleanor Linn, senior associate director, Programs for
Educational Opportunity, University of Michigan (the Region
V Equity Assistance Center serving Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin). At the center,
Ms. Linn consults regularly with public school districts on
sexual harassment issues. She also has conducted research
examining who harasses and why.
***A representative from the U.S. Department of Education's
Office for Civil Rights, the federal agency with
responsibility for enforcing Title IX, will also join us for
the discussion.
Format
Only messages related to the "Dialogue on Sexual Harassment
and Title IX" will be posted to EDEQUITY from February 9 to
16. Posting of all other messages will resume on Wednesday,
February 17.
The Dialogue will begin by 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
on Tuesday, February 9 with an opening statement from each
of the panelists. You are then encouraged to reply with your
reactions, comments, and questions for the panelists and
other list members. Responses will be posted several times
each day. At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, the panelists
will post their closing statements. You may respond to
these statements until 5 p.m., at which time the Dialogue
will officially end. Of course, list members can continue
to send in comments on this subject as long as they wish to
do so.
Invite Your Colleagues to Log On to EDEQUITY
Please invite others you think might be interested in this
subject to join us. If they don't want to subscribe to the
list, they will be able to follow the discussion on the
Internet at <www.edc.org/WomensEquity>, by clicking on the
discussion list selection, and then on "guest privileges."
If they wish to subscribe, have them send e-mail, leaving
the subject blank, to <majordomo@mail.edc.org>; the body of
the message should read: subscribe edequity (no quotation
marks or other punctuation).
If you have any questions, please contact me at
<edequity-admin@edc.org>.
We look forward to your participation in the Dialogue.
Susan
Susan J. Smith
EDEQUITY Moderator
WEEA Equity Resource Center at EDC
800-225-3088
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