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The Provost's Advisory Committee on
  Women's Issues (PACWI)
Membership Requirement The Provost’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues is charged with representing a diverse group of women, faculty, staff, and students, committee membership should include faculty, staff, and graduate students for three year terms. In order to support the tenure and promotion of women faculty, assistant professors are normally not appointed. Members are invited by the Provost to serve on the committee.

Subcommittees and Chairs for 2011-2012
  • Diversity in Leadership Subcommittee
    Purpose:  To discuss BFSA’s collaboration with PACWI regarding professional development for women and other minority faculty and staff to access employment opportunities in higher level university administration.
    Co-chairs for 2011-12: Rhittie Gettone and Pearl Fernandes
  • Mentoring and Professional Development Subcommittee
    Purpose: To promote professional association among university women, to reduce isolation and create a fertile atmosphere of exchange of ideas, and to assist colleagues in pursuing career pathways more directly and efficiently.
    Co-chairs for 2011-12:  Margee Zeigler 
  • Women’s Leadership Institute Subcommittee (WLI)
    Purpose: To review past conference evaluations and the current state of the university, and to plan and produce a conference or institute focused on issues relevant to USC women.
    Chair for 2011-2012: Mary Alexander
  • Technology Subcommittee
    Purpose: The purpose of TS to assist and promote PACWI initiatives using technology to include website development, annual Leadership Institute registration functions and the distribution of information and surveys.
    Chair for 2011-2012:  Gay DeBarbieris
  • Review of New and Existing Policy Subcommittee
    Purpose:
    To review and revise existing policies that affect women faculty and staff, and to develop proposals for new policies in order to improve the university environment for women. 
    Chair for 2011-2012:  Karen Lear Edwards
  • Women Graduate Students (WGS)
    Purpose: The purpose of WGS is to explore ways in which the University of South Carolina can better support female graduate students and to improve the overall experience of female graduate students at the university.
    Chair for 2011-2012:  Kallie Metzger

Members

  • Sally Boyd, Faculty, Co-chair, Extended University (2012)
  • Kelly Eifert, Staff, Co-chair, Office of Academic Integrity (2013)

  • Mary Alexander, Staff, Office of the Provost (2013)
  • Sarah Barker, Faculty, Theatre (2013)
  • Stefanie DiDomenico Burke, Staff, Student Life (2013)
  • Christine Curtis, Faculty, Office of the Provost
  • Gay DeBarbieris, Staff, Housing (2013)
  • Karen Lear Edwards, Faculty, HRSM – Retailing (2014)
  • Pearl Fernandes, Faculty, USC Sumter (2012)
  • Lydia Frass, Staff, Public Health (2014)
  • Rhittie Gettone, Staff, African American Professors Program, (2014)
  • Kajal Ghoshroy, Faculty, USC Sumter, (2013)
  • Lisa Hammond, Faculty, USC Lancaster (2013)
  • Xavery Hopkins, Staff, Public Health (2014)
  • Erica Lake, Staff, Career Center (2013)
  • Christine Lotter, Faculty, College of Education (2012)
  • Kara Montgomery, Faculty, Arnold School of Public Health (2012)
  • Jo Anne Regan, Faculty, Social Work (2012)
  • Veda Sargent, Staff, Campus Recreation (2012)
  • Kate Shelton, Staff, Continuing Education (2013)
  • Teresa Tidwell-Smith, Staff, Vehicle Management & Parking Services (2014)
  • Feili Tu, Faculty, Library and Information Science (2012)
  • Nicole Zarrett, Faculty, Psychology (2012)
  • Margee Zeigler, Staff, Music (2013)

  • Kallie Metzger, Graduate Student
  • Katie Patton, Graduate Student
  • Lauren Workman, Graduate Student

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