What is NAUW?
What is the National Association of University Women, Inc.?
It is an organization, a union of thousands of college women graduates who are bound by a powerful mystique. It is composed of women who have consciously chosen this affiliation as a means of self-fulfillment through service. Its official headquarters are in Washington, District of Columbia.
The National Association of University Women, Inc. is an organization that sponsors, promotes and conducts educational activities designed to provide community outreach services to learners at every level of development, It extends assistance to those who are out of school but have need of those basic skills necessary to function effectively in our society, and it raises educational standards and achievements in colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning.
The organization also sponsors conferences, seminars, symposiums and meetings on national, sectional, and local levels and cooperates with other groups, associations, public or private agencies that may be concerned with community problems, cultural interests, educational and world problems.
The NAUW also works to promote the improvement of education, and, when appropriate, to issue public statements concerning the quality of education. It also awards one or more National Fellowships for Doctoral Study and sectional and local events.
The NAUW encourages and assists in the development and establishment of research programs, and it conducts or sponsors research pertaining to the standards and quality of universities, colleges and institutions of higher learning. It also publishes and disseminates literature and materials pertaining to education; academic programs; and intellectual and academic achievement and opportunities.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the National Association Of University Women, Inc., is to serve women, youth, and the disadvantaged in our communities and in developing countries by addressing educational issues, and strategically partnering with allied organizations.
OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of the National Association of University Women is to promote and conduct educational activities designed to provide community outreach services at every level of development
about Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. It is the fourth-most populous city in Virginia, with a population of 226,610 at the 2020 census. The Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.37 million residents, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Virginia and 44th-largest in the United States.
Richmond is located at the James River's fall line, 44 mi (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 mi (106 km) east of Charlottesville, 91 mi (146 km) east of Lynchburg and 92 mi (148 km) south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, Richmond is at the intersection of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64 and encircled by Interstate 295, Virginia State Route 150 and Virginia State Route 288. Major suburbs include Midlothian to the southwest, Chesterfield to the south, Varina to the southeast, Sandston to the east, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to the west, and Mechanicsville to the northeast.
Richmond was an important village in the Powhatan Confederacy and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown from 1609 to 1611. Founded in 1737, it replaced Williamsburg as the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech in 1775 at St. John's Church and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond was the capital of the Confederate States of America.
The Jackson Ward neighborhood is the city's traditional hub of African American commerce and culture, once known as the "Black Wall Street of America" and the "Harlem of the South." At the beginning of the 20th century, Richmond had one of the world's first successful electric streetcar systems.
Law, finance, and government primarily drive Richmond's economy. The downtown area is home to federal, state, and local governmental agencies as well as notable legal and banking firms. The greater metropolitan area includes several Fortune 500 companies: Performance Food Group, Altria, CarMax, Dominion Energy, Markel, Owens and Minor, Genworth Financial, and ARKO Corp. The city is one of about a dozen to have both a U.S. Court of Appeals and a Federal Reserve Bank.