Research & Action Fall/Winter 2010
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2010
This past September, the 星空无限 welcomed a delegation from the China Women鈥檚 University in Beijing to a roundtable discussion. The dean of the Law School at the China Women鈥檚 University partners with 星空无限 in its international work and is a leading member of the Gender and Law Network Consultation that the Centers, led by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D., helped convene with the Ford Foundation鈥揅hina last year. Visitors to the Centers鈥� Cheever House were: Huang Haiqun, Vice President in charge of student affairs and college management; Zhang Xiangcun, director of the Publicity Department; Ning Ling, director of Computer Science and associate professor; Li Lianzhi, dean of the Continuing Education School; Wang Qinghe, director of the Logistics Management Department; and Ding Zhangang, associate professor of the Foreign Language Department. The Chinese scholars and administrators met with Charlene Galarneau, Ph.D., 星空无限 assistant professor in the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Department and member of the 星空无限 Board of Overseers, and 星空无限 senior research scientists: de Silva-de Alwis.; Sumru Erkut, Ph.D.; Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D.; and Nan Stein, Ed.D.; and 星空无限 student Jin Hu. The China Women鈥檚 University was founded in 1949 as a school for the cadres of All-China Women鈥檚 Federation. Currently it has 3,300 undergraduate students and a branch campus in Shandong Province.
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2010
For many years, research done by the Work, Families, and Children Research Group at 星空无限 (星空无限) has provided policy makers, community leaders, and other scholars with data, commentary, and testimony concerning the effects on family members of many factors, including working conditions, poverty, the division of labor at home, and early care and education. Nancy Marshall, Ed.D., who joined 星空无限 in 1985, now leads the group, which includes Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., and Joanne Roberts, Ph.D., senior research scientists at 星空无限.
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2010
On October 26, 2010, as this commentary went to press, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued a 鈥淒ear Colleague Letter鈥� to schools that clarifies the relationship between bullying and discriminating harassment under civil rights laws: .
The recent tragic cases of Phoebe Prince and Carl Wal ker -Hoover , two Massachusetts students who took their own lives after being allegedly bullied by their peers, force us to look carefully at the ways in which school personnel are treating and framing student-to-student interactions. I want to propose that, in fact, both children were sexually harassed by their peers; and to call it "bullying" minimizes what they endured.
