Women in Charge: Bold, Innovative, Collaborative
American Association of University Women (AAUW) will hold Women In Charge: Bold, Innovative, Collaborative and its National Conference for Women Student Leaders from June 19-23 in Providence, Rhode Island. The convention tracks include: Taking Action in Our Communities, Leadership and Organizational Change, Lifelong Learning: Work Force and Beyond, and Everything AAUW. For more information visit the conference web site at: www.aauw.org/7000/convention

Gender, Culture, and the Academy: Winning Women in Higher Education
As part of a larger project looking at equality and diversity in Higher Education (www.coventry.ac.uk/equal), researcher Karen Ross is exploring the strategies which women use to survive and succeed in the academy. Ross's research attempts to identify the ways in which personal characteristics, informal networks, and institutional policies work together to enhance women's professional goal achievement. Ross seeks participants who will complete an online questionnaire and may follow up with more in depth personal, phone, or e-mail interviews. The questionnaire can be found at: www.coventry.ac.uk/equal/question.htm.

The Fulbright Scholar Program
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering some 800 grants for lecturing, research or both in 140 countries worldwide, and the competition for 2004-05 opens March 1, 2003. Awards are available for lecturing and/or research, in 140 countries in 45 disciplines. Grants range from two months to a year or longer on the traditional program. The new Senior Specialists program offers short-term consulting grants from two to six weeks. Faculty and professionals who are U.S. citizens and who hold the Ph.D. or terminal degree in their field are eligible. For more information, eligibility requirements, and application materials, go to www.cies.org or call 202-686-4000. Deadline for the 2004-05 academic year is August 1, 2003.

Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announces the opening of its 2004-2005 fellowship competition. The Center awards 20-25 academic year residential fellowships annually in an international competition to individuals with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues -- topics that intersect with questions of public policy or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine issues of contemporary importance. Fellows are provided private offices, access to the Library of Congress, Windows-based personal computers, and research assistants. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have equivalent professional experience. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. To request application materials please contact the Center at 202-691-4170 or email: fellowships@wwic.si.edu. Application forms may also be downloaded from the Center's web site at www.wilsoncenter.org. The application deadline is October 1, 2003.

Reducing Violent Crime Against Women on Campus
The Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women, offers grants to reduce violent crimes against women on campus, including dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The primary purpose of this program is to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women on campuses and strengthen effective security and investigation strategies to combat violent crimes against women on campuses. Historically, institutions of higher education have handled dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking through closed administrative procedures or mediation rather than by assisting victims in initiating criminal proceedings through local law enforcement agencies. This approach can send an incorrect message to victims, perpetrators, and the entire campus community that violence against women is not criminal behavior. Many campuses are beginning to address violent crimes against women by developing campus-based responses that include campus victim services, campus law enforcement, health providers, housing officials, administrators, student leaders, as well as student organizations, and disciplinary boards. Online registration is due by March 10 and applications are due by March 25, 2003. For more information: www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/grants/campus03/campus03.pdf ; www.ojp.usdoj.gov/fundopps.htm