Margaret Anne O'Connor papers, 1972-1989 [manuscript].

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Margaret Anne O'Connor papers, 1972-1989 [manuscript].

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Files on organizations with which Margaret O'Connor was involved and publications relating to women's organizations and issues. Organizational materials are letters, minutes of meetings, brochures, and other materials from organizations supporting women faculty, affirmative action, and related course work. Organizations include the Faculty Council's Status of Women Committee and Women's Studies Advisory Board; the Association for Women Faculty; University Women for Affirmative Action; the Women's Forum, an advisory board to the Association of Women Students, publisher of the "She" newsletter; and the American Association of University Professors, for which O'Connor chaired Committee W for several years. Much of the material is about efforts to create a Women's Studies program on campus and contains letters, surveys, course descriptions, and other items. Printed materials include newspaper clippings about national and local Chapel Hill, N.C., events; the "She" newsletter; and other publications.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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American Association of University Professors

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The national chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was organized in 1915 to advance academic freedom, shared governance and to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education. The first meeting of the AAUP at Central Washington University was held on October 14, 1954. Regular monthly meetings were held during the academic year to address faculty concerns with administrative decision-making and participative governance. Central Washington Un...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Association for Women Faculty.

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The Association for Women Faculty was formed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the summer of 1978 to promote intellectual and social contact among women faculty members. At monthly meetings, the association, led by its elected officers and Board of Directors, discussed topics of interest to the university's female staff. From the guide to the Association for Women Faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1978-1991, (University of Nor...

O'Connor, Margaret Anne

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Margaret Anne O'Connor taught the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's first course on Women in Literature in the spring of 1972. She later regularly taught classes in Women in American Literature, American Expatriate Women Writers, and Southern Women Writers at the undergraduate level as Women's Studies courses cross-listed with both English and American Studies. At the graduate level, she taught Reconstructing American Literature in the mid-1980s. She was a member of the Faculty Counc...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University Women for Affirmative Action.

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University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) was organized on 27 February 1973 in response to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action findings that discriminatory practices in hiring and promotion appeared to be widespread on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The goals of the organization were to work against discriminatory hiring and promotion practices, to work to equalize salary and fringe benefit levels, and to promote the organization of a co...