Aprill 10, 2009
Purdue to honor Violet Haas Award winner Carroll
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
The reception will take place at 4 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union Anniversary Drawing Room. The event is open to the public.
Established in 1990, the award recognizes individuals, programs or departments at Purdue that have facilitated the advancement of women in hiring, promotion, education and salary, or have generally enhanced a positive professional climate for women at the university.
Carroll came to Purdue in 1990, when she was named director of the Women's Studies Program. She held the position until 2000. Throughout her career, Carroll has mentored junior faculty and graduate students; been instrumental in increasing the diversity in the Women's Studies Program and on faculty search committees on which she served; and has been an advocate on social issues affecting women, such as equal pay and equal rights.
She also introduced women and international relations courses into the study of international relations in political science. She helped to establish the International Peace Research Association, the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Carroll has made many contributions to the scholarship of women's studies and was president of the National Women's Studies Association in 1999-2000.
The award, sponsored by the Council on the Status of Women, is named for Haas, an electrical engineering professor from 1962-86, who was instrumental in the early development of the Purdue chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. Carroll will have her name added to the Violet Haas Legacy Plaque outside Purdue Memorial Union, Room 108.
The Council on the Status of Women was formed in 1988-89 to create a voice for women at Purdue by studying existing university practices and procedures, and women's professional concerns.
The group has been active in issues related to women at Purdue, such as advocating the development of a child-care facility and domestic partner benefits.Writer: Christy Jones, 765-494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu
Source: Gina Kerr, assistant director for equity in hiring in the Office of Institutional Equity, 765-494-7253, gkerr@purdue.edu
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